The Prodigal Soul: The Wisdom of the Ancient Parables

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Clear Press Ltd, 2004 - 144 pagini
Everyone loves a good story, and this collection of ancient parables, allegories and other tales from around the time of Jesus is inspiring as well as entertaining. Few have been previously published in a form accessible to the general reader. Two of them, which almost certainly originated with Jesus, are not found in the canonical gospels.

John Davidson shows how a universal spirituality is depicted in these ancient tales. As in The Gospel of Jesus, part of his purpose is to present the ancient teachings of early Christianity, previously inaccess-ible to all but a few specialists, in a form which is both clear and enjoyable.

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Introduction
1
The Lost Sheep and the Prodigal Son
7
The Good Samaritan
17
The Talents
26
The Wicked Husbandmen
34
The Broken Jar
40
The Powerful Man
43
The Raising of Lazarus
46
The Two Snakes
75
The Three Farmers
81
The Free Men the Debtors and the Slaves
89
The Drunken Nobleman
94
Saint John and the Bedbugs
122
19
144
21
163
22
185

The Pearl Merchant
56
The Pearl Borer
71
Abbreviations
247
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John Davidson has had a life-long interest in mysticism. Graduating in 1966 from Cambridge University with an honours degree in natural sciences, he took a post at the Uni-versity's Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, where he worked for seventeen years. In 1984, he left the University to pursue independent interests and since then has written a number of books, including a series on science and mysticism and the ground-breaking work, The Gospel of Jesus - In Search of His Original Teachings. Read more about him at his website, www.johndavidson.org

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