Clemency: The Saint Chronicles, Part 1

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Clemency: The Saint Chronicles, Part 1

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Layer of Tradition – The Parable

31 Friday Aug 2012

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While the delivery technique for story has advanced significantly over the course of known history – Mesopotamia all the way up to multimedia – the timeless tradition of storytelling has been carried tirelessly down through the time. For the most part, the intent of a story and its layer of tradition remains intact to this day. Good versus evil, man versus nature, and any number of combinations in between are molded and crafted to create a story with a message; they’re known as parables.  The Bible represents one parable after another, as Christianity attempted to teach by example. Characters imbedded in the many different stories would demonstrate their strengths and weaknesses as a means of showing the ways of their truth.

boat, shore, Galilee, Bible, ChristThroughout the New Testament, Christ’s Apostles emerge as standout characters, each charged with  performing tasks that present the reader with a cornerstone of faith. In Clemency, the characters names, attributes, and activities mimic some of the basic elements of characters that had come thousands of years before them.  Can you identify four key elements and a key theme that resonate from The Bible?  Lets examine the text!

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