Parables Judgment (87 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. Is the world going to hell in a handbasket? Is ours the generation that will be left behind? Are global events harbingers of the great tribulation? Such questions promote a fear and anxiety that is contrary to the hope-filled gospel of Jesus Christ.In AD70 and the End of the World, award-winning author Paul Ellis offers an alternative, gospel-based perspective of the last days. Based on an in-depth study of scripture and the forgotten lessons of history, he reveals the astonishing good news hidden within Christ's parables and prophecies of judgment.This book is the antidote to pessimistic prophecy. It answers questions about Judgment Day, the rapture, and the end of the age. It reinterprets dark tales of vengeance and wrath through the bright light of grace.If you are weary of gloomy forecasts or are anxious about the apocalypse, AD70 and the End of the World will give you a confident and joyful expectation of a bright tomorrow.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Is the world going to hell in a handbasket? Is ours the generation that will be left behind? Are global events harbingers of the great tribulation? Such questions promote a fear and anxiety that is contrary to the hope-filled gospel of Jesus Christ.In AD70 and the End of the World, award-winning author Paul Ellis offers an alternative, gospel-based perspective of the last days. Based on an in-depth study of scripture and the forgotten lessons of history, he reveals the astonishing good news hidden within Christ's parables and prophecies of judgment.This book is the antidote to pessimistic prophecy. It answers questions about Judgment Day, the rapture, and the end of the age. It reinterprets dark tales of vengeance and wrath through the bright light of grace.If you are weary of gloomy forecasts or are anxious about the apocalypse, AD70 and the End of the World will give you a confident and joyful expectation of a bright tomorrow.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Here in one volume is Robert Farrar Capon's widely praised trilogy on Jesus' parables The Parables of the Kingdom, The Parables of Grace, and The Parables of Judgment. These studies offer a fresh, adventurous look at all of Jesus' parables, treated according to their major themes. With the same authorial flair and daring insight that have earned him a wide readership, Capon admirably bridges the gap between the biblical world and our own, making clear both the original meaning of the parables and their continuing relevance today.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Here in one volume is Robert Farrar Capon's widely praised trilogy on Jesus' parables The Parables of the Kingdom, The Parables of Grace, and The Parables of Judgment. These studies offer a fresh, adventurous look at all of Jesus' parables, treated according to their major themes. With the same authorial flair and daring insight that have earned him a wide readership, Capon admirably bridges the gap between the biblical world and our own, making clear both the original meaning of the parables and their continuing relevance today.…

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The parables of Jesus are among the most memorable stories ever told, but the parables of judgment-stories of closed doors, extinguished lamps, nets drawn to shore, and sudden reversals-remain the most haunting. In The Parables of Judgment: Stories of Warning and Reversal in the Teachings of Jesus, cultural historian Bill Johns examines these stark narratives with the precision of biblical study and the depth of cultural history. He reveals how these ancient warnings have shaped the imagination of the West, inspiring art, sermons, rituals, and even the language of modern catastrophe. Rather than dismissing these parables as relics of a harsher age, Johns shows how they continue to speak in urgent tones. The warnings they deliver are not designed to paralyze but to awaken. A midnight cry rings out so that lamps can still be filled; a thief is announced so that doors can be secured; a banquet invitation is extended so that no one presumes upon privilege. Judgment, in these stories, is not arbitrary cruelty but merciful disclosure. To be told in advance that time matters, that negligence carries cost, and that vigilance has dignity is to be given a gift of extraordinary clarity. Johns traces the reception of these parables across centuries. For the persecuted church, they were survival manuals, sustaining fidelity in times of danger. In medieval Europe they were carved into stone and sung in chants, woven into the rhythms of daily worship. During the Reformation they became weapons of polemic, sharpened by Luther, Calvin, and their Catholic opponents alike. In the revivals of the eighteenth century, they were dramatized with tears and thunder, pressing hearers toward decision. And in modern times they have been translated into the apocalyptic language of novels, films, and digital culture, proving that the grammar of vigilance has never disappeared. The book situates the parables within their biblical and prophetic lineage, showing how Jesus's warnings stand in continuity with Amos, Isaiah, and Ezekiel, prophets who sounded alarms not to terrify but to invite repentance. At the same time, Johns illuminates their cultural afterlives, where judgment imagery has been secularized yet persists. Headlines warn of "last chances." Scientists speak of "closing windows." Social media enacts public reckonings that echo the sudden exposure described in the Gospels. Even those who no longer recognize the biblical source live within its imaginative architecture. For readers of biblical studies, this book offers careful interpretation rooted in history. For those drawn to cultural history, it uncovers the hidden influence of parables that have shaped law, politics, art, and ritual. For general readers, it presents a gripping meditation on consequence in an age that often denies it. Above all, it insists that judgment is not about fear but about fidelity, not about cruelty but about truth. To read these pages is to rediscover the urgency of stories too often softened or ignored. The parables of judgment are not the comfortable sayings of a distant teacher; they are alarms still sounding, still calling, still pressing us toward vigilance. Johns invites readers to see them anew, to hear their sternness as mercy, and to recognize in them the grammar of consequence that shapes both faith and culture. The Parables of Judgment will appeal to anyone drawn to the deep currents of memory, meaning, and imagination that run beneath Western history. It is a work of serious narrative nonfiction that restores gravity to familiar stories, urging readers to live awake, with lamps burning, prepared for the hour when the knock comes. Enter these pages ready to confront the unsettling mercy of Jesus's parables-and to discover in them not despair, but the dignity of living with time as if it matters. This item is pri Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Condition: acceptable. The item is very worn but is perfectly usable. Signs of wear can include aesthetic issues such as scratches, dents, worn and creased covers, folded page corners and minor liquid stains. All pages and the cover are intact, but the dust cover may be missing. Pages may include moderate to heavy amount of notes and highlighting, but the text is not obscured or unreadable. Page edges may have foxing age related spots and browning . May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.…