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Title
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Parables and Fables for Modern Man: 30 texts for teachers or just for the pleasure of readers fond of flights of fancy
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Description
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Peter Ribes, S.J.
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Creator
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Ribes, Peter
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Contributor
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Solange
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Date
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2016-01-25T19:13:47Z
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2004-01
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1990
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T19:13:47Z
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Date Issued
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1990
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Abstract
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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.
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Identifier
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0854393250 (pbk)
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4749 (Access ID)
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Language
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eng
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Publisher
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St Paul Publications
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Middlegreen, Slough, England
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Subject
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BL624.R53 1990
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Title Page Scanned
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Type
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Book, Whole