{"id":125714,"date":"2023-12-31T07:15:13","date_gmt":"2023-12-31T12:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=125714"},"modified":"2023-12-31T07:35:17","modified_gmt":"2023-12-31T12:35:17","slug":"more-cs-lewis-on-the-meaning-of-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=125714","title":{"rendered":"More CS Lewis on the Meaning of Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cMy idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it himself. He is the great iconoclast. Could we not almost say that this shattering is one of the marks of his presence? The Incarnation is the supreme example; it leaves all previous ideas of the Messiah in ruins.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212;<b>A Grief Observed<\/b> [London: Faber&#038;Faber, 1961], p.52<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Adoration of the Shepherds in the stillest of nights, by Georges de la Tour in 1644. For the end of Second Christmas Day. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wK5fMD4bJH\">pic.twitter.com\/wK5fMD4bJH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dr. Peter Paul Rubens (@PP_Rubens) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PP_Rubens\/status\/1475288781771128834?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 27, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMy idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it himself. He is the great iconoclast. Could we not almost say that this shattering is one of the marks of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=125714\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[575,162,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas","category-christology","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125714"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125717,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125714\/revisions\/125717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}