Thinking ahead to this Sunday’s lectionary readings, those preparing sermons on Luke 16.19–31 (not an easy text to tackle, or to be tackled by) may find some help in the following places:
- Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics III.2 (ed. G.W. Bromiley and T.F. Torrance; trans. H. Knight, et al.; Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1960), 603–4.
- Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics IV.2 (ed. G.W. Bromiley and T.F. Torrance; trans. G.W. Bromiley; Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1958), 440.
- Karl Barth, Church Dogmatics IV.3.1 (ed. G.W. Bromiley and T.F. Torrance; trans. G.W. Bromiley; Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1999), 337–39.
- Karl Barth and Eduard Thurneysen, God’s Search for Man: Sermons (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1935), 78–92.
- Richard Bauckham, ‘The Rich Man and Lazarus: The Parable and the Parallels’, New Testament Studies 37 (1991), 225–246.
- Walter Brueggemann, The Prophetic Imagination (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1978), 89–90.
- Walter Brueggemann, The Threat of Life: Sermons on Pain, Power, and Weakness (ed. C.L. Campbell; Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1996), 136–43.
- Robert Farrar Capon, The Parables of Grace (Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1988), 152–59.
- Duncan B. Forrester, On Human Worth: A Christian Vindication of Equality (London: SCM, 2001).
- Howard Marshall, Luke: Historian and Theologian (Exeter: Paternoster, 1970), 141–44.
- Stephen I. Wright, ‘Parables on Poverty and Riches (Luke 12:13–21; 16:1–13; 16:19–31)’ in The Challenge of Jesus’ Parables (ed. R.N. Longenecker; Grand Rapids/Cambridge: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2000), 217–39.
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