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Jesus' Son: Stories by Denis Johnson

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

I was recently listening to an old episode of The New Yorker's excellent Fiction podcast a few weeks ago on which Tobias Wolffe read Denis Johnson's story Emergency from the collection Jesus' Son. Let's read the third of these stories Jesus told - the lost son. While trapped on an airplane travelling from Detroit to San Diego last week, I read Denis Johnson's short story collection, Jesus' Son, cover to cover. In the other direction, at the same time, you have another crowd — the crowd following a widow as she goes to bury her only son. €�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. We have widows getting back their places in society. A father finds a lost son and has a party. We have sons coming back to life. 11 Jesus continued: “There was a man who had two sons. Think about the parable of the Prodigal Son. They are heading in one direction. And all our stories today have this theme of God and life defeating Sin and Death.