INTERPRETING THE PARABLES (2nd edition)
By Craig L. Blomberg
IVP. 463 pages. £19.99
ISBN 978 1 844 745 760
How many points do parables make? Anyone who has preached Jesus’s parables will have wrestled with this question.
Historically, the answer to that question was ‘many’. In reaction to that, in the 19th century, Adolf Jülicher argued that parables only made one point. Jülicher’s approach, popularised by Robert Stein, Gordon Fee and Douglas Stuart, seems to hold sway among modern preachers as we’re encouraged to identify and then preach the one main point of the parable.
