Power of Transformation

<p>The parables of Jesus still speak powerfully to us today. By employing ancient Greek virtue ethics and the rhetorical techniques of the <em>progymnasmata</em>--preliminary exercises for prose composition--this fresh literary approach elucidates the vivid language and the virtues reflected in selected parables of Jesus. Throughout this book readers will encounter Jesus in a new way as his parables lead us to experience true happiness through the practice of virtues.</p><p><strong>Endorsements</strong></p><p>This book clearly provides rhetorical techniques to advance human knowledge while unlocking new meanings drawing subsequent ethical implications and grasping the transformative power of the parables and the historical Jesus.<br>--Jean-Claude Loba Mkole United Bible Societies Nairobi-Kenya University of the Free State Bloemfontein-South Africa</p><p>Bringing traditional parable scholarship together with classical Greek conceptions of virtue and vice Sr. Naveros Córdova shows how the Gospel writers draw us into the good life of God's kingdom. A welcome addition offering rich new insights.<br>--Gary S. Selby Emmanuel Christian Seminary at Milligan; author of <em>Not with Wisdom of Words: Nonrational Persuasion in the New Testament</em></p> <p><strong>Sr. Nélida Naveros Córdova CDP</strong> is assistant professor of biblical studies at Spring Hill College in Mobile Alabama and its director of graduate programs in theology and ministry. She holds a doctorate in New Testament and early Christianity from Loyola University Chicago has written several books and presents at national and international biblical conferences.<br>+</p>