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Jesus' Son: Stories Denis Johnson
Publisher: Harper Perennial

My first contact with Denis Johnson's Jesus' Son was reading “Steady Hands” when it came out in Esquire. We in the Christian era view Elijah as prototype of the Jesus, the Christ – Messiah and Son of God. Luke's Gospel provides story after story to illustrate why Jesus is the Messiah and the Son of God and how God is doing a new thing in the world. As you know, the story is just a couple of pages of dialogue, almost completely free of the other elements of scene. The underlying difference is that one is a prophet – a great one at that; and the other, the Son of God! There was nothing of his I wanted in particular. This is strong evidence either that the gospel writers knew of (and could have been influenced by) resurrecting god stories from other cultures or that these stories influenced the Jesus story when it was told from person to person. The parable of the prodigal son is one of the most well-known stories of Jesus. Denis Johnson's Jesus's Son, a collection of loosely related short stories, tells various tales of loneliness, drug addiction, and disconnection. Stories from Afghanistan: When God Ran--Jesus, the Prodigal Son, and Unexpected Common Ground in a Kabul Classroom. Jesus Raises the Son of the Widow of Nain You may remember that last week, as we were looking at the story of Elijah competing with the prophets of Ba'al, I said that Elijah was an unpleasant person. And so people believed that Elijah would return to announce the beginning of the messianic age. This is part two of my "Stories from Afghanistan" series. It is more commonly referred to as the story of the prodigal son, though the word prodigal is not found in Scripture. The eleven sections of Jesus’ Son are relentless. Son of Man is an updated story of the life of Jesus set in the fictional State of Judea that is modern day South Africa – complete with warlords and child soldiers. Jesus could directly command the dead man to get up.