I was very struck by Allan Bevere’s recent post, “God is not an absentee landlord,” because that very image of God appears in one of Jesus’ parables, assuming the historic understanding of that parable is correct.
Absentee landlords have been hated by ordinary people down the ages. I’ve long wanted to do a study of the negative images of God and the kingdom of God in parables attributed to Jesus in the Gospels – the absentee landlord, the unjust judge, the man who hires day laborers and pays them all the same, leaven, mustard, and so on. I mentioned the idea way back in 2007 here on this blog!
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