The Woman at the Well as Prophecy and Image of Christian Division

The Woman at the Well as Prophecy and Image of Christian Division

Here is a link to an incredibly long  meditation on the Woman at the Well , which I got into the Homiletic and Pastoral Review, America's greatest pastoral magazine and noted around the world, my seventh article. You don't have to read it, but if you take the time, I think you will find it fascinating!

I am putting my website version, as they cut out a key component because they don't like numbers.

Introductory Point:

The woman at the well can be a revelation of Christian division. It makes full sense because, relative to the Old Covenant, she is something like a heretic to Jewish people. She has the sense of the full purity of Judaism, but it is partially corrupted in the minds of the fully Jewish persons, who worship at Jerusalem, which at that time was the true place to worship...

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