{"query": "The archetypes — figures of the Word", "count": 20, "results": [{"id": "card_k_spine_archetypes", "title": "The archetypes — figures of the Word", "shelf": "codex", "surface": "witness", "snippet": "The people and scenes of Scripture read as living patterns — Jonah fleeing, Elijah under the juniper, Peter at the fire, Thomas doubting. Each is a seed of the Word, a figure the reader is invited to ", "authority_tier": "matt", "source": "Operator's seed (Matt) — the Nesting: one floor, one root", "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_11f0c5734c91", "title": "The Prodigal Son", "shelf": "reference", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Demands the inheritance early; wastes it in a far country; comes to himself in the pigsty; rehearses a speech of unworthiness; the father runs while he is yet a great way off.\n\nFailure mode: Treating ", "authority_tier": "reference", "source": "Archetype — Bible", "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_fc7e53421012", "title": "Isaac the Offered Son", "shelf": "reference", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Only son of promise; carries the wood himself; asks where is the lamb; does not resist on the altar; received back from the dead in figure.\n\nFailure mode: None at Moriah.\n\nRestoration path: N/A as typ", "authority_tier": "reference", "source": "Archetype — Bible", "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_841d3d10610b", "title": "The Elder Brother", "shelf": "reference", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Faithful in the field but resents the feast; will not go in; the father comes out to entreat him; cannot say my brother, says this thy son.\n\nFailure mode: Service without sonship; bitterness at unearn", "authority_tier": "reference", "source": "Archetype — Bible", "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_f9baa8b824f1", "title": "The Pharisee and the Publican", "shelf": "reference", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Two go up to pray; one with himself recounts his virtues and despises the other; one beats his breast and says God be merciful to me a sinner; the second goes home justified.\n\nFailure mode: Prayer tha", "authority_tier": "reference", "source": "Archetype — Bible", "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_cbc8473a895e", "title": "The Good Samaritan", "shelf": "reference", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "The wounded man on the Jericho road; priest passes by; Levite passes by; the despised foreigner has compassion, binds, pays, and returns to settle the bill.\n\nFailure mode: None for the Samaritan; fail", "authority_tier": "reference", "source": "Archetype — Bible", "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_94d285f8ff97", "title": "The Wise and Foolish Virgins", "shelf": "reference", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Ten virgins with lamps await the bridegroom; five carry oil in vessels, five do not; the bridegroom tarries; cry at midnight; the foolish ask to borrow but cannot; the door is shut.\n\nFailure mode: Lam", "authority_tier": "reference", "source": "Archetype — Bible", "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_6f1307069448", "title": "Luther at the Diet of Worms", "shelf": "reference", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Augustinian monk summoned before the emperor to recant his writings; asks for a day to consider; returns and says unless convinced by Scripture and plain reason, my conscience is captive to the word o", "authority_tier": "reference", "source": "Archetype — History", "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_d6580f0827b2", "title": "Don Quixote", "shelf": "reference", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Aging gentleman reads too many chivalry romances; sallies forth to right wrongs and defend ladies in a world that no longer obeys those rules; mistakes windmills for giants; is mocked, beaten, and fin", "authority_tier": "reference", "source": "Archetype — Literature", "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_15a8336a6fb0", "title": "The Servant Who Buried the Talent", "shelf": "reference", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Receives one talent; afraid of the master, hides it in the ground; returns exactly what was given; called wicked and slothful; the talent given to the one who already had ten.\n\nFailure mode: Fear-driv", "authority_tier": "reference", "source": "Archetype — Bible", "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_1892dd45b108", "title": "Javert", "shelf": "reference", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Inspector who has built his whole identity on the law as an absolute; cannot integrate the mercy Valjean shows him by sparing his life; the order of his world collapses; throws himself into the Seine.", "authority_tier": "reference", "source": "Archetype — Literature", "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_dc50b5adaab5", "title": "Jeremiah the Weeping Prophet", "shelf": "reference", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Pleads I am a child; ordained from the womb; preaches to a nation that will not listen; word becomes fire shut up in his bones; weeps for the daughter of his people.\n\nFailure mode: None; the model of ", "authority_tier": "reference", "source": "Archetype — Bible", "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_adee400cbc0c", "title": "Samuel the Child", "shelf": "reference", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Hears his name in the night and runs to the wrong source three times; learns to answer Speak, for thy servant heareth; receives a hard word and reports it fully when asked.\n\nFailure mode: Initially at", "authority_tier": "reference", "source": "Archetype — Bible", "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_bc5740c4f798", "title": "Deborah Under the Palm", "shelf": "reference", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Judges Israel under the palm of Deborah; sends for Barak with the LORDs word; goes with him when he refuses to go alone, foretelling the honor will go to a woman; the Kishon sweeps Siseras chariots; J", "authority_tier": "reference", "source": "Archetype — Bible", "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_1c4189e4cc5c", "title": "Mary, Handmaid of the Lord", "shelf": "reference", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Receives an impossible calling, asks the necessary practical question, then yields with let-it-be; ponders things in her heart through years of unfolding.\n\nFailure mode: None recorded; the model of co", "authority_tier": "reference", "source": "Archetype — Bible", "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_ab3cbd1936cf", "title": "Isaiah, Here Am I", "shelf": "reference", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Sees the LORD high and lifted up; cries woe is me, I am undone; lip touched with the coal; hears whom shall I send; answers here am I, send me.\n\nRestoration path: See, confess undone, receive cleansin", "authority_tier": "reference", "source": "Archetype — Bible", "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_1db668db797f", "title": "Asaph", "shelf": "reference", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Almost slipped envying the prosperity of the wicked; until I went into the sanctuary of God; then I understood their end.\n\nFailure mode: Envy of wicked prosperity until vantage shifts.\n\nRestoration pa", "authority_tier": "reference", "source": "Archetype — Bible", "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_d18dfc6d89ac", "title": "Ahithophel", "shelf": "reference", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Wise counselor whose counsel was as if a man inquired of God; defects to the usurper; counsel overturned by providence; hangs himself when ignored.\n\nFailure mode: Treating one's wisdom as identity; ca", "authority_tier": "reference", "source": "Archetype — Bible", "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_912488fc2a4c", "title": "Cornelius the Centurion", "shelf": "reference", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Devout Gentile who feared God with all his house; gave much alms and prayed always; sees a vision telling him to send for Peter; calls his kinsmen and near friends to hear what Peter will say; Spirit ", "authority_tier": "reference", "source": "Archetype — Bible", "generated": false}, {"id": "card_n_e749d7800ae0", "title": "Zacchaeus the Tax Collector", "shelf": "reference", "surface": "secular", "snippet": "Wealthy chief publican; climbs the sycamore to see; Jesus calls him by name; restitution offered fourfold beyond the law's requirement; salvation today.\n\nFailure mode: Wealth gained by complicity with", "authority_tier": "reference", "source": "Archetype — Bible", "generated": false}]}