{"id":137146,"date":"2025-05-19T17:31:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T21:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=137146"},"modified":"2025-05-19T18:33:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T22:33:07","slug":"nathan-blair-the-resurrection-deus-ex-machina-or-eucatastrophe-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=137146","title":{"rendered":"Nathan Blair&#8211;The Resurrection: Deus Ex Machina or Eucatastrophe?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The silence: deafening. Broken only by an excruciating groan from the protesting joints of a wooden chair as one of those seated shifts their weight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No one speaks. But volumes are communicated as ashamed, bloodshot and guilt-ridden eyes meet across the room and quickly withdraw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Suddenly, a familiar voice, clear and strong, declares, \u201cPeace be with you.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As if the roof were ripped off the house and the noon day sun flooded the room so their hearts were engulfed in joy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In one glorious moment their inconsolable sorrow was unexpectantly turned to inexpressible exultation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gospelconvergence.wordpress.com\/2013\/09\/25\/the-resurrection-deus-ex-machina-or-eucatastrophe\/\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Carl Heinrich Bloch,<br>The Resurrection, c.1881 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/N2AYyMPnom\">pic.twitter.com\/N2AYyMPnom<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Solas (@solas_na_greine) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/solas_na_greine\/status\/1868982408185627131?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 17, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The silence: deafening. Broken only by an excruciating groan from the protesting joints of a wooden chair as one of those seated shifts their weight. No one speaks. But volumes are communicated as ashamed, bloodshot and guilt-ridden eyes meet across<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=137146\">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":[162,571,178,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christology","category-easter","category-eschatology","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137146","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=137146"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137148,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137146\/revisions\/137148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=137146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=137146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=137146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}