“[Jesus’ parables] are “a language which from beginning to end, thinks through the
Metaphor and never beyond…there is more in the parables taken
together than in any conceptual system about God. We are, in the Parables taken as a whole,
given much more to think through than the coherence of any concept offers…[We can] draw from the Parables nearly all the kinds of theologies which have divided Christianity
through the centuries … and taken all together, they say more than any rational theology…They give rise to thought [but cannot be reduced to] theological simplifications which we attempt to put in their place.”
Little Bristling Soul 