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Jesus' Son: Stories by Denis Johnson

Jesus' Son: Stories Denis Johnson ebook
Page: 59
Format: pdf
Publisher: Harper Perennial
ISBN: 0060975776, 9780060975777

Jesus sees her accompanying the funeral procession and is so moved by the sight that he brings her son back to life. It is more commonly referred to as the story of the prodigal son, though the word prodigal is not found in Scripture. Mine is that I'm not a big fan of short stories. In contrast to so many of the healing stories, the person in need of healing never asks for Jesus' help. €�The hope of the resurrection” say Baptist scholar Alan Culpepper, “is not grounded in the fact that the widow's son came back to life but in the fact that the one who had the compassion to bring back the widow's son has himself triumphed over death” [You may as well know from the start of what may be a happy Not insignificantly this is also the moment that Luke, in his Jesus-story, refers to Jesus as “Lord” (v. Starring Billy Crudup, Samantha Morton, 1999. Luke reminds us that Jesus is like the prophets of Israel. From JESUS' SON: STORIES, Harper Perennial, 1993. I opened my journal to write down this incredible story and saw the last words I had written: asking the Lord to increase my faith. Praising Jesus that Harry is His son, and one day soon he will realize it and be saved! Denis Johnson changed my mind with this, now one of my all-time favorite books, and showed how to braid narrative and use the lyric register (poetic language). I'll be honest: I don't really like Denis Johnson. Particularly Elijah and Elisha, both of whom raised the dead. In today's story, indeed, Elijah restores the hope a widow by raising her son from death. The parable of the prodigal son is one of the most well-known stories of Jesus.