the role of the lukan parables in terms of the purpose of luke's gospel

to all, even one’s enemies. None of us must limit boundaries of care and obligation. The
parable firmly rejects all prejudice and discrimination, namely, racial, intellectual, financial,
religious and nationalistic prejudice, or anything else that would restrict doing acts of love.
The teaching of the parable harmonizes well not only with Jesus’ concern for outcasts of the
society but also with Jesus’ emphasis on loving one’s enemies. The commandment of the
practice, “Go and do likewise” not only seeks to turn a man with a mania for creeds and
anemia for deeds into a man of practice, but also is our task which all of us tenaciously
pursues and combats. Even though loving our neighbour as oneself is difficult, there is no
alternative for followers of Jesus.
The charitable Samaritan (Social ethics instead of ethics of conscience).” See R. Zimmermann, “The ethopoietic
of the parable of the good Samaritan (Lk 10:25-37). The ethics of seeing in a culture of looking the other
way,” Verbum et Ecclesia 29 (2008), 269-92.
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