{"id":133916,"date":"2025-01-03T10:22:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T15:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=133916"},"modified":"2025-01-03T18:34:35","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T23:34:35","slug":"more-cs-lewis-on-the-meaning-of-christmas-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=133916","title":{"rendered":"More CS Lewis on the Meaning of Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<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>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212;<strong>A Grief Observed<\/strong> [London: Faber&amp;Faber, 1961], p.52<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Peace &amp; Goodwill to all! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/StainedGlass?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#StainedGlass<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Nativity?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Nativity<\/a> (c.1929\/30) by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/JosephEdwardNuttgens?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#JosephEdwardNuttgens<\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Windsor?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Windsor<\/a> Parish Church <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ArtGuideAlex?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ArtGuideAlex<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheCCT?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TheCCT<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/friendschurches?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@friendschurches<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/C20Society?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@C20Society<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NatChurchTrust?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NatChurchTrust<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HistoricEngland?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@HistoricEngland<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/heritage_lizzie?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@heritage_lizzie<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/frome_maude?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@frome_maude<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CityGuideJill?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@CityGuideJill<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ianarchiebeck?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ianarchiebeck<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ArtWorkersGuild?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ArtWorkersGuild<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3bSex3LUwB\">pic.twitter.com\/3bSex3LUwB<\/a><\/p>&mdash; BSMGP (@BSMGP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BSMGP\/status\/1871874579909751101?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 25, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\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=133916\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas","category-christology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133916","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=133916"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133927,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133916\/revisions\/133927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}