By Peter Rollins
"Parables do not substitute sense for nonsense, or
order for disorder. Rather, they point beyond these
distinctions, inviting us to engage in a mode of
reflection that has less to do with fixing meaning
than rendering meaning fluid and affective.
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 open to ever-new possibilities
by refusing to be held by the categories that
currently exist within that world. In this way the
parable transforms the way we hold reality, and
thus changes reality itself." ~an excerpt from the Introduction
Boy - you don't give yourself an easy entry into your new year's resolution! I hope it your reading goes well! I went for a memoir instead :).
ReplyDelete