Re: Jesus' parables...why?

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Michael J Davis <?.?@trustsof.demon.co.uk> wrote:

As someone who spent some time at Business School and many happy hours
working through case studies (though not at Harvard), I suggest that
they have one thing in common - an open ended problem, and a difference
in that *every* detail might be significant. The purpose of a CS is to
decide which are the significant factors, and to learn to reject the
remainder.

I'm not claiming that the parables are case studies (though some might claim
that the whole Bible is a series of case studies), merely pointing out that
teaching through story-telling is not particularly unusual.

God bless,
Kendall K. Down

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