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The Orthodox Heretic and Other Impossible Tales

by:  Peter Rollins

Whenever Jesus needed to communicate something important to the people who surrounded Him, He often chose to do it through parables, short stories that invited people to enter into a world and engage truth in a life-changing way.  These stories were often shocking to the listeners who heard them. 

In his new book, Peter Rollins, a modern Irish theologian and philosopher, seeks to recapture the soul-transforming power and potential of these stories by offering a collection of modern parables.  Dealing with faith, spirituality, and spiritual formation these parables call us to truly think about the ways that we live and the ways that we think about God.   

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“Religious writing is usually designed to make the truth of faith clear, concise, and palatable.  Parables subvert this approach.  In the parable, truth is not expressed via some dusty theological discourse that seeks to educate us, but rather it arises as a lyrical dis-course that would inspire and transform us.  In light of this, the enclosed parables do not seek to change our minds but rather to change our hearts.” – Peter Rollins