Jesus' Son: Stories Denis Johnson
Publisher: Harper Perennial

Jesus Stories: The Parable of the Two Sons. What are their similarities and differences? What main points stand out to you in this story? How would you describe the older son and the younger son? I have had Johnson's story collection (connected story collection, that is) Jesus' Son (1992) on my shelf for a long time. €�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. Remember the Sunday school stories? And so people believed that Elijah would return to announce the beginning of the messianic age. For whatever reason, despite others reading it and recommending it highly, I avoided it. We in the Christian era view Elijah as prototype of the Jesus, the Christ – Messiah and Son of God.