02027 – Getting Reoriented
Ricoeur, Paul

Jesus instructs not by means of the rule, but by means of the exception…

Parables, paradoxes, hyperboles, and extreme commandments all disorient only in order to reorient us…

I would say that what is reoriented by these extreme sayings is less our will than our imagination.

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