PRODIGALS ALL
  • Begin the Encounter
    • Meaning and Application >
      • Encountering the Text >
        • Text of Luke 15.1-3
        • Text of Luke 15.11-12
        • Text of Luke 15.13-19
        • Text of Luke 15.20-24
        • Text of Luke 15.25-32
      • Encountering the Literary Context >
        • New Testament Context >
          • Luke 9-19
          • Luke 15
          • The Gospels >
            • Matthew 21.28-32
            • John 7.53-8.11
            • Luke 19.1-10
          • Epistles >
            • Romans
            • Philemon
        • Old Testament Context >
          • Jacob
          • Psalm 23
          • Jonah
      • Encountering the Cultural Context >
        • Cultural Questions Luke 15.1-3 >
          • Cultural Answers Luke 15.1-3
        • Cultural Questions Luke 15.11-12 >
          • Cultural Answers Luke 15.11-12
        • Cultural Questions Luke 15.13-19 >
          • Cultural Answers Luke 15.13-19
        • Cultural Questions Luke 15.20-24 >
          • Cultural Answers Luke 15.20-24
        • Cultural Questions Luke 15.25-32 >
          • Cultural Answers Luke 15.25-32
      • Encountering the Theological Meaning >
        • Keller Prodigal God
        • Nouwen Return
        • Theological Meaning >
          • God
          • Christ
        • Early Interpretations >
          • Clement of Alexandria
          • Tertullian
          • Ambrose
          • John Chrysostom
          • Cyril of Alexandria
        • Modern Interpretations >
          • Charles Spurgeon
          • Martin Luther King, Jr.
          • Jerry Falwell
          • Barbara Brown Taylor
        • Buddhist Prodigal
    • Artistic Impact >
      • The Prodigal Son in Painting >
        • Art, Exegesis, and Interpretation
        • Palma 1595
        • Rembrandt 1668
        • Tissot 1880
        • Slevogt 1899
        • Quist 1975
        • He Qi 1996
        • Riojas 2000s >
          • Riojas interpretation
        • Janknegt 2002 >
          • Janknegt interpretation
        • Rabodzeenko 2006
      • The Prodigal Son in Poetry >
        • Christina Rossetti >
          • Rossetti poems
          • Rossetti interpretations
        • Rainer Maria Rilke >
          • Rilke poem
          • Rilke interpretation
        • Kilian McDonnell >
          • McDonnell Poems
          • McDonnell interpretations
        • Leah Goldberg
        • James Weldon Johnson
        • John Newton
        • Edith Nesbit
      • The Prodigal Son in Fiction >
        • Marilynne Robinson
        • Alexander Pushkin >
          • The Stationmaster
        • Rainer Maria Rilke
      • The Prodigal Son in Music >
        • Britten (1968) >
          • Britten Libretto
        • Popular music >
          • Robert Wilkins
          • Rory Block
          • Rolling Stones
          • Josh White
          • Keith Green
      • The Prodigal Son in Film/Drama
      • The Prodigal Son in Dance >
        • Balanchine
  • Meet your Trail Guide
  • A Suggested Path

Parable of the Prodigal Son:
An Interdisciplinary Encounter

guided by Dr. Lee Magness


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     Welcome to an encounter with one of Jesus' best known and best loved parables--the Prodigal Son (Luke 15.11-32).   We will engage this parable from many perspectives--literary, sociological, and theological. We will also experience how its spiritual meaning has inspired centuries of creative expression--in painting, music, drama, fiction, poetry, dance, and film--and how those expressions give us fresh understandings of the parable. Click on any link below to begin the encounter.

MEANING and APPLICATION

Encountering the Text

Encountering the Cultural Context

Encountering the Literary Context

Encountering its Spiritual Meaning

ARTISTIC IMPACT

The Prodigal Son in Painting

The Prodigal Son in Fiction

The Prodigal Son in Film/Drama

The Prodigal Son in Poetry

The Prodigal Son in Music

The Prodigal Son in Dance


           Whose boots are treading the rough trail in the image above?   Are they the boots of the Prodigal Son purposely striding off, away from father, family, and home, off for the far country?   Do they belong to that same Prodigal Son, desperate but fearful, now stumbling his way back home?   Could they be the feet of the Father, running, yes, running, to meet his long lost son?   Or are they the work boots of the Older Son, angrily approaching the homestead to challenge his father's compassion?   We will be following all of these footsteps as we see ourselves, prodigals all, in this powerful parable.   
          Let's begin the journey.

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Your Trail Guide ~

     If you'd like to get to know Dr. Lee Magness, the professor of Bible who built this website, ProdigalsAll.com, and is guiding your encounter with the parable of the Prodigal Son, you are welcome to click here.

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