Cheung Pui Yee Albert. / Thesis (M.Div.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2012. / Includes bibliographical references. / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Abstract --- p.i / 論文摘要 --- p.iii / Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter Chapter 1 --- The Kingdom of God/Heaven and Matthew's Church --- p.3 / Chapter 1.1 --- The Kingdom of God/Heaven --- p.3 / Chapter 1.1.1 --- The Kingdom as Apocalyptic Eschatology --- p.4 / Chapter 1.1.2 --- The Kingdom as Realized Eschatology --- p.6 / Chapter 1.1.3 --- The Kingdom in the Present and the Future --- p.7 / Chapter 1.2 --- The Situation of Matthew's Church --- p.9 / Chapter Chapter 2 --- The Kingdom Parables in Matthew 13 --- p.12 / Chapter 2.1 --- The Parables in Matthew --- p.12 / Chapter 2.2 --- The Structure and Context of Matthew 13 --- p.13 / Chapter 2.3 --- The Parable of the Sower --- p.16 / Chapter 2.4 --- The Interpretation of the Parable of the Sower --- p.17 / Chapter 2.5 --- The Parable of the Tares --- p.20 / Chapter 2.6 --- The Interpretation of the Parable of the Tares --- p.23 / Chapter 2.7 --- The Parable of the Mustard Seed --- p.27 / Chapter 2.8 --- The Parable of the Leaven --- p.28 / Chapter 2.9 --- The Parables of the Hidden Treasure and of the Pearl --- p.29 / Chapter 2.10 --- The Parable of the Net --- p.31 / Chapter 2.11 --- Concluding Parable: Treasures New and Old --- p.33 / Chapter Chapter 3 --- Matthew's Concepts of the Kingdom of Heaven and of the Church --- p.36 / Chapter 3.1 --- Matthew's Concept of the Kingdom --- p.36 / Chapter 3.2 --- Matthew's Church and His Understanding of the Church --- p.38 / Chapter Chapter 4 --- Reflections and Applications --- p.42 / Chapter 4.1 --- Use of Parables --- p.42 / Chapter 4.2 --- Urban and Wealthy Church --- p.43 / Chapter 4.3 --- Making Disciples --- p.44 / Chapter 4.4 --- Handling of Offending Members and Forgiveness --- p.45 / Chapter 4.5 --- The Kingdom of Heaven and the Church --- p.46 / Conclusion --- p.47 / Bibliography --- p.48

For those who have the courage to doubt, it can be said that the Bible which is highly regarded in Africa is not only an innocent book but also a guilty one because of the many social, political and religious evils that have bedevilled Africa from time to time and which it has condoned and has been used to sanction. Using postcolonial biblical criticism, and as a way of demonstrating that the entire Bible is another text of the empire, this thesis argues that imperial ideology promoted in Luke's socio-economic parables has contributed to another social evil i.e. the gap between the rich and the poor in Kenya. / Thesis (M.Th.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2008.