The Scandal of the Kingdom: How the Parables of Jesus Revolutionize Life with God [Hardcover]

For many of us, the parables of Jesus are delightful but mysterious, and at times even scandalous. Dallas Willard opens up for us the beauty of these parables with such uncanny skill and grace that, in the end, we become captivated by the greatness and goodness of God.I stand in a long line of readers whose prophetic imagination have been profoundly shaped by Dallas Willard. The Scandal of the Kingdom worked on me in the way his writing always seems to--pointing to meaning hidden in plain sight in familiar biblical passages, using grounded (and occasionally provocative) language to offer a pathway for converting intellectual insight into embodied practice. Another great work from a great mind and even greater life.Over the years of reading and listening to Dallas Willard, I was always longing for a more refined and robust understanding of what he thought Jesus meant by 'kingdom of God.' I am thrilled to see that longing satisfied in his probing of the kingdom of God by examining the deposits of the kingdom as taught in Jesus' parables. In his incomparable manner of attuning all that Jesus taught to a life transformed, The Scandal of the Kingdom develops into fruition Willard's fresh and valuable understanding of the kingdom.Carefully crafted, previously unpublished materials from Dallas Willard comprise The Scandal of the Kingdom, a powerful exploration of Jesus's parables that unlocks ways to increase our faith and live every day more fully in the radical and surprising love of God and his kingdom.

A major new work by Dallas Willard, the highly anticipated follow-up to his seminal work The Divine Conspiracy. In this groundbreaking book based on teachings he delivered to a church community, Willard delves into the transformative power of Jesus's parables, revealing how they show us how to live right now in the kingdom of God.

Drawing from his extensive teachings on spiritual formation, Willaló(