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The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Episode 113: Jesus's Parables

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Mark Linsenmayer

Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2015

⏱️ 144 minutes

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Summary

Interpreting the Parables using texts from Paul Ricoeur, John Dominic Crossan, Paul Tillich, et al, with guest Law Ware.

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0:00.0

You're listening to the Parts of the Exand Life, a philosophy podcast by some guys who

0:11.4

read one point set on doing philosophy for living, but then thought better of it.

0:15.0

Our question for episode 113 is something like, what philosophical insight can we draw

0:19.8

from reading Jesus' parables?

0:21.8

And we read the parables themselves and looked at secondary sources about how to read them

0:27.0

including hall recruers listening to the parables of Jesus from 1974 and a couple other things.

0:33.8

This is Mark Linton Meyer, like unto a grain of a mustard seed in Madison, Wisconsin.

0:40.4

This is Wessel on, I guess I'm more like the mustard seed.

0:44.6

Are you the mustard seed?

0:45.6

What kind of seed are you?

0:46.6

That's, I just said that.

0:47.6

Think of a different one.

0:48.6

I'll be the lost sheep, I don't know.

0:51.2

All right.

0:52.2

We're participating in participatory pedagogy in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

0:58.2

All right.

0:59.2

We're down to a Trinity today.

1:01.8

Oh, you just had to go for it.

1:03.4

You had to go for the Christological stuff.

1:06.4

Not mentioned in the parables at all.

1:08.6

No, but it's a Pauline thing.

1:11.6

Yes, so I long thought about since we started this podcast really like, well, what if we actually did part of the Bible?

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