No one knows. Theology Today , 1990. It is not only the gentiles but mothers and daughters and other marginalized people or outsiders who get a special hearing from Jesus, Not only do they receive a special hearing, but they seem to hear and see the possibilities in his mission beyond what others see. When Jesus names the woman's action faith, and the simultaneous result is the healing of the woman, the story creates a particular 'culture of belief'. At Religion Online .
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Yet sometimes a new thing appears which does not age so easily, which makes life possible again, in both our personal and our historical existence, a saving new, which has the power to appear when we least expect it, and which has the power to throw into the past what is old and burdened with guilt and curse. In the materials examined in this essay, there is a tendency for Biblical passages to function as artistic proofs in settings of rhetorical expansion, since abbreviation and adaption to the discursive content are highly important. Reflections by Dr. William R.G. Loader, Murdoch University, Uniting Church in Australia. Even apart from playing with natural explanations, we can also recognise that already the evangelists use such stories to say something about a more lasting kind of 'magic', a more profound understanding of divine compassion which asks hard questions of our prejudices about rich and poor, male and female, and challenges our naive bondage to simplistic ideologies, religious and otherwise. Capharnaum , featuring information and images from 19 seasons of excavations conducted by the late Fr.