Research Catalog

Title

The scandal of the Gospels : Jesus, story, and offense / David McCracken.

Author

McCracken, David.

Publication

New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1994.

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Details

Description

xii, 204 pages; 25 cm

Alternative Title

Jesus, story, and offense.

Subjects

• Stumbling-block
• Bible > Gospels > Criticism, Narrative
• Narration in the Bible
• Scandal
• Jesus Christ > Person and offices > Biblical teaching

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. Introduction: The Offense and Us. Encountering and Suppressing Offense. Some Contemporary Varieties of Offense -- 2. Biblical Offense at Work: Defilement and Blindness. The Pharisees and the Canaanite Woman. Yahweh's Snares and Stumbling Blocks. Jesus as the Stumbling Stone -- 3. The Offensiveness of Offense -- 4. Offense or Faith: The Kierkegaardian Choice. Beguiling the Reader. Stages on Life's Way. Climacus on the Non-understandable. Anti-Climacus's Dialectics. Offending the Establishment -- 5. Parabolic Lies, Parabolic Truth. Parables as Obstructions and Revelations. Parables as Lies. Parables as Transforming Acts of Truth. Collision and Crisis. Toward Reading Parables as Scandals (A Critical Addendum) -- 6. Training the Scribes of the Kingdom. Substance versus Response. Interpreting the Householder. Interpreting Desire -- 7. The Offensive and Inoffensive Jesus. Writers, Readers, and Contexts. Offenses from Within and Without. How Does It Seem to You? The Sublime and the Bathetic.
• The Unforgiving Slave -- 8. Life in the Between: Nathan and the Good Samaritan. Utterance and Response. David and Nathan: Between I and Thou. The Dialogic Samaritan. The Official World and the Unseemly. Between Stories -- 9. Plot and Story in John. Mythic Plots and Scandalous Stories. The Beloved Disciple and the End of Interpretation. The Narrative Progress of Offense. The Divine Skandalon Enacted: God as Flesh. Provocations and Passion. Occasions for Offense -- Appendix: Selected Greek Words Relevant to Offense and Their Appearances in the New Testament.

ISBN

0195084284 (alk. paper)

LCCN

93013093

OCLC

• 28181180
• ocm28181180

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries