SEED FALLING ON GOOD SOIL

Seed Falling on Good Soil is a unique book that combines a historically informed approach to Lucan parables with a critical understanding of social justice issues of our own age. The author proposes that the stories told by Jesus were narratives of resistance challenging audiences to participate in the personal and social transformation of Gods kingdom. The authors experience in international community development provides a perspective rarely found among New Testament specialists. The book uses stories from the margins of our current world to connect the message of the parables with global issues of poverty, ethnic violence, gender discrimination, hunger and oppression. This book will appeal to people who long for the healing of a wounded world. This book is more than just an intellectual exercise or one more book on the parables. Instead, King offers the kind of combination we definitely need more of in Biblical studies today. King blends a thick and convincing biblical exegesis with powerful stories from around the globe that illuminate both the text and what it means to live it out in our contemporary context, a penetrating systemic analysis of the injustices in our political economy, and a persuasive and lucid literary style. This combination moves me. Like Jesuss parables, King subversively gets under my skin--and into my heart and mind--and leaves me both exposed and convicted. When I finished the book, I knew that I was being called to change how I live. More than that, I wanted to change. Read it for yourself and I have no doubt you too will be transformed into someone who is living closer to Gods vision for a restored world marked by justice and shalom. --Tim Dickau, Author, Plunging into the Kingdom Way