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The Orthodox Heretic

And other impossible tales

Author: Pete Rollins

Pete Rollins is inspired by the fact that all language fails when it comes to describing God. This, he says, is what nourishes poets and pilgrims alike as they try to capture, enact and incarnate truth. Such truth can only be lived – it cannot be reduced to mere words.

From this starting point, he revisits the parables of Jesus - odd and unexpected stories that set hearers and readers spinning off course from what is safe and familiar towards some completely new kind of understanding.

Parables are subversive; they never attempt to make faith simplistic. A parable does not primarily provide information about our world. Rather, if we allow it to do its work within us, it will change our world—breaking it – and us - open to wholly new possibilities. 

An unforgettable experience awaits the reader.

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 Chapter One

Categories: The church

Publication Date: 28 July 2009 By Canterbury Press

Binding/Format: Paperback      Pages: 128

Status: In Stock

Price: £9.99

ISBN:  9781853119798

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