{"id":12683,"date":"2009-05-08T01:32:02","date_gmt":"2009-05-08T01:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/kevin_thew_forrester_musters_a_theological_self_defense\/"},"modified":"2009-05-08T01:32:02","modified_gmt":"2009-05-08T01:32:02","slug":"kevin_thew_forrester_musters_a_theological_self_defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12683","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Thew Forrester Musters a Theological Self-Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201d\u00a6 \u201d\u02dcthe way\u2019 that John speaks of is not about believing doctrines about Jesus. Rather, \u201d\u02dcthe way\u2019 is what we see incarnate in Jesus: the path of death and resurrection as the way to rebirth in God. According to John, this is the only way \u201d\u201c . . . it is \u201d\u02dcthe way\u2019 spoken of by all the major religions of the world. Dying and rising is the way. Thus Jesus is \u201d\u02dcthe Way\u2019 \u201d\u201c the way become flesh. Rather than being the unique revelation of a way known only in him, his life and death are the incarnation of a universal way known in all of the enduring religions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upepiscopal.org\/Approaching_the_Heart_of_Faith_042909.pdf\" title=\"http:\/\/www.upepiscopal.org\/Approaching_the_Heart_of_Faith_042909.pdf\">Read it carefully and read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201d\u00a6 \u201d\u02dcthe way\u2019 that John speaks of is not about believing doctrines about Jesus. Rather, \u201d\u02dcthe way\u2019 is what we see incarnate in Jesus: the path of death and resurrection as the way to rebirth in God. According to John,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=12683\">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":[36,66,372,376,640,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-tec-bishops","category-tec-conflicts","category-tec-conflicts-northern-michigan","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12683","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=12683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}