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    <body><![CDATA[A great introduction to Jesus and Christianity for moderns and postmoderns. Keller takes us deep into the heart of one of finest stories ever told by Jesus. The self-righteous will squirm as Keller points out that there are two prodigals, not one, in the story. But both kinds of people—religious a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63208099">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I loved this book - its not often that a parable so well known as the Prodigal Son, can be approached in such a new way, with such insight into the challenges of living with &quot;church&quot; and individual failure and weakness.<br/><br/>The author simply notes that the father in the story had tw...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76364584">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is based on the Parable of the Prodigal Son which the author sees as a drama in two acts.  He feels that when commentators concentrate on the reckless behavior and return of the younger brother, they miss the real message of the story.  Keller believes that both brothers represent a differ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58765286">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[My mom gave me this book. It's like a hundred pages long. Actually, she gives Tim Keller's books to everyone; this one and The Reason for God, which I'd like to read. This book here is actually more for people who are heavy church-attendees (which is not me--although he addresses the other side as w...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/47664083">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Keller insightfully describes how Jesus' parable that he appropriately renames &quot;The Two Lost Sons&quot; is a quintessential Gospel narrative. Tim's analysis of the passage in Luke opened my eyes and heart to a more complete, contextual, accurate meaning of what Jesus was getting at in telling t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42742826">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I will give this a 3.5 out of 5. Here is a book review that I wrote in haste:<br/><br/>Keller opens his book by correcting two commonly held misconceptions of “The Prodigal Son” parable. He does this by first clarifying the term “prodigal” (i.e., extravagantly wasteful), and by noting that t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46343039">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Interesting to me that the UK edition's subtitle is not Christianity Refined....but &quot;Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith.&quot; And I think I like that better. Keller wrote this after The Reason For God as a complement to his other book, I believe to paint a picture for what exactly IS ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43098728">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Keller advocates a deeper reading of the Prodigal Son parable with much more emphasis on the older brother than the younger. We all know who the younger brother is, and the older brother is the man who believes he can win the Father's love by living a moral life. Keller says that both these paths ar...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80305593">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Keller takes the over-preached parable of the 'prodigal son' and breaks it down to reveal that there is <em>so</em> much more to the story than a father forgiving his rebellious younger son. <br/><br/>Jesus tells this parable for the sinners and tax collectors (the rebellious younger son), but perhaps more...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67986458">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Tim Keller's re-telling of the &quot;Prodigal Son&quot; is relentlessly Gospel-centered.  I was very moved in several sections as well as convicted.  Keller's approach is wonderfully balanced he uses the Gospel to cut through the idol's of legalism, license, liberalism, conservatism, gnosticism, mat...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40020211">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[An interesting look at the prodigal parable, focusing more on the older son. It helps you to examine your desire to &quot;control&quot; God. It also reinforces the fact that we can do nothing to gain God's favor, He already accepted us as we are and what we do is or should be out of gratitude, not t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/43990633">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a great book on the story of the Prodigal Son, or the story of the “Two Lost Sons” as Keller calls it.  I was very convicted by how much I am like the Elder Brother in this story.  My legalism and anxiety and panicking every time something in my life goes wrong are all symptoms of this E...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41435186">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Before reading this book, someone told me that I seemed like an &quot;Eldest Son&quot; as described by Keller.  The the more I read, the more offensive that comment became.  But past about the halfway mark, I stopped caring about the bad picture it painted of me and really thinking about what it cou...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59158059">more...</a>]]></body>
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