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. In the spirit of Jesus' parables, Peter offers some transformative stories of his own.

The Orthodox Heretic and How (Not) to Speak of God

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This is a book to be read slowly and savoured. Just as Jesus’ parables often seemed confusing and perplexing so it is with this collection of stories which Peter Rollins has written. Each story is a couple of pages long and in them the author is concerned to make us think, sometimes in uncomfortable and radical ways, about the nature of our Christian faith. Like Jesus’ parables, their meaning is not immediately evident which means they need to be mulled and thought about. This needs to be done, perhaps, before reading Peter’s commentary and insights on his own story. The Orthodox Heretic will not appeal to everyone but for those wanting a sideways look at faith they might find nuggets to extend and enlarge their perception and outworking of faith.

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