The Parables of Jesus: Recovering the Art of ListeningFortress Press - 183 In this startling new way to read the parables, Ford unlocks seven of the longer parables attributed to Jesus. He focuses on the two major characters in each parable, who are separated by social inequality, and he entirely bypasses the common approach that assumes that the superior character represents God and the subordinate character the Christian believer. Drawing on his own therapeutic training, Ford offers unique insight into the psychodynamics at work in the parables. He proposes that the two characters are equally balanced in their multiple misperceptions of each other and shows how Jesus' stories invite listeners to advert to issues of conflict and power and to struggle toward reconciliation. |
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The Managers Despair | 22 |
The Rich Mans Bind | 25 |
The Listener as Passive Recipient or Authoritative Observer | 88 |
A Younger Son and a Father | 90 |
Parental Giving or Parental Depriving? | 92 |
The Listeners Choosing | 97 |
Separation and Boundaries | 99 |
Separation and Regression | 100 |
Separation and Fragmentation | 101 |
Rescue or Repetition? | 102 |
Listening in Ways a Therapist Listens | 26 |
An Invitation to Decide | 29 |
Three Slaves and a Master | 32 |
The Exploited Called Upon to Exploit | 37 |
The Last Slaves Impotence | 40 |
The Masters Disappointment | 42 |
The Last Slaves Potency | 44 |
Integrity vs Mimicry | 45 |
A Slave and a Master | 47 |
The Slaves Motive | 49 |
Can the Master Change the World? | 51 |
Weighing Magnanimity against Oppression | 52 |
Guilt Provoking Punishment | 54 |
Anger Contrasted with Grief | 56 |
The Listeners Decision | 58 |
Forgiving and Psychotherapy | 59 |
Forgiving While Controlling | 62 |
Forgiving and Equality | 64 |
A Widow and a Judge and Tenant Farmers and a Landlord A Beginning Inquiry | 65 |
Barriers to Understanding | 67 |
Speechlessness Enhancing Distortion | 68 |
The Absence of Outside Authority | 70 |
The Creation of Alien Worlds | 74 |
A Widow and a Judge and Tenant Farmers and a Landlord Further Inquiry | 77 |
Using Projective Identification to Understand Alien Worlds | 84 |
Exclusion Hidden within Inclusion | 104 |
An Elder Son and a Father and Laborers and a Landowner | 107 |
Giving So Much and Receiving So Little | 110 |
Paternal Failure and Fraternal Envy | 112 |
Remaining Stuck by Insisting the Other Move | 113 |
Pulling Back in Order to Go Forward | 114 |
Acting Justly or Just Being Civilized? | 115 |
Hoping to Be Honorable While Given to Greed | 116 |
Voicelessness | 118 |
A TooInsistent Voice | 119 |
Using Generosity to Cover Up Control | 120 |
How Are These Stories Told and Heard? | 122 |
The Presence of Irony | 124 |
The Nature of the Kingdom of God | 126 |
How Are These Stories Heard? | 128 |
Inclusion Leading to Novel Possibility | 131 |
Two Sons and a Father and the Book of Genesis | 134 |
The Elder Son | 135 |
The Linking Symbol of Robe | 136 |
How the God of Some Becomes the God of All | 138 |
Acknowledgments | 141 |
Notes | 143 |
Bibliography | 168 |
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