Textweek ATLAS - February 28, 2016 - Lent 3C

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Lent 3C
February 28, 2016

Hedrick, Charles W. "Prolegomena to Reading Parables: Luke 13:6-9 As A Test Case," Review & Expositor, 1997.
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Includes a number of historic and contemporary understandings of the Fig Tree Parable. "...to what extent is the realism of the stories merely a cosmetic feature of the stories' inventions, or to what extent should the realism of the stories be taken seriously as essential to the way they are read?"

 

Long, Thomas G., "Breaking and Entering," The Christian Century, 2001.
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"What is the sign of God's pregnant time? We must watch closely and faithfully, or we will miss it. To sharpen our vision, Jesus tells a parable about an orchard owner who was frustrated by a barren fig tree and ordered the gardener to cut the tree down..."

 

Rittenhouse, Bruce P., "What Does It Mean to Tell the Truth about the Virginia Tech Killings?" Currents in Theology and Mission, 2007.
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"The truth for us, then, is not a simple tale of innocent victims and an innocent society faced with inhuman evil..."

 

Baird, William, "1 Corinthians 10:1-13, Expository Article," Interpretation, 1990.
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"Faithful people can withstand temptation because of the faithfulness of God. Positively, the whole text implies the following lesson: God's grace is manifest in the gifts of Baptism and the Lord's Supper. Obedience is gratitude in response to that grace."

 

Marty, Martin E., "Full Communion," The Christian Century, 2001.
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"Now that the 'ecumenical century' has ended, Christians must ask 'How are the people of "one baptism" and "one bread" doing?'"

 

Sanders, James A., "Expository Article: Isaiah 55:1-9," Interpretation, 1978.
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"At this moment of theophany in a foreign land, Yahweh not only calls his dispossessed people to a new covenant, but he also bids those who have been unfaithful during the fifty years of Exile to return to the fold."