Parables and Fables for Modern Man: 30 texts for teachers or just for the pleasure of readers fond of flights of fancy

Title

en_US Parables and Fables for Modern Man: 30 texts for teachers or just for the pleasure of readers fond of flights of fancy

Description

en_US Peter Ribes, S.J.

Creator

en_US Ribes, Peter See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Solange

Date

2016-01-25T19:13:47Z

en_US 2004-01

en_US 1990

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:13:47Z

Date Issued

en_US 1990

Abstract

en_US Originally published in 1988 by St Paul Publications, India. In the foreword, Ribes mentions that the book was prepared at the National Vocation Service Centre in Pune, India, where parables were used during training sessions for teachers and students from seminaries and religious formation houses. The parables here are grouped as religious, personal, and social. Each of thirty chapters contains a parable text, messages of the parable, ideas and application of the parable, and references to biblical texts in keeping with the parable. The best of the first five is Brother, Let Me Teach You (15). At their best, these parables overturn expectations. Here the novice monk who has been chanting the wrong mantra is about to be corrected by a more experienced monk. The more experienced monk turns to row across the water to the novice, when he finds the latter walking across the water to him to ask how to pronounce the mantra correctly! If the parables have a weakness, it may lie in too much transparency. These probably are more parables than fables. Ribes mentions fables only in passing in the foreword, together with allegories and fairy tales. I am surprised that I have gone all these years and not heard of this Jesuit writer of stories.

Identifier

en_US 0854393250 (pbk)

en_US 4749 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80376

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US St Paul Publications

en_US Middlegreen, Slough, England

Subject

en_US BL624.R53 1990 See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole