{"id":20889,"date":"2010-07-23T02:38:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-23T02:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/eni_european_theology_faculties_warn_of_shift_to_religious_studies\/"},"modified":"2010-07-23T02:38:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T02:38:00","slug":"eni_european_theology_faculties_warn_of_shift_to_religious_studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=20889","title":{"rendered":"ENI: European theology faculties warn of shift to religious studies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Representatives of European theological faculties and church theological institutes have warned against universities dropping the teaching of theology in favour of religious studies that are seen as a more general approach.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Theology has a major role to play within the university by countering stereotypes, demonstrating ways of dealing with religious conflict, and working out its own unique specificity in dialogue with other disciplines,&#8221; said Orthodox Metropolitan Emmanuel of France, the president of the Conference of European Churches.<\/p>\n<p>He was speaking in the Austrian city of Graz at a meeting of theological faculties in Europe.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglicanjournal.com\/nc\/news-items\/article\/european-theology-faculties-warn-of-shift-to-religious-studies-9293.html\" title=\"http:\/\/www.anglicanjournal.com\/nc\/news-items\/article\/european-theology-faculties-warn-of-shift-to-religious-studies-9293.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Representatives of European theological faculties and church theological institutes have warned against universities dropping the teaching of theology in favour of religious studies that are seen as a more general approach. &#8220;Theology has a major role to play within the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=20889\">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":[39,50,111,200,108,167,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-education","category-europe","category-religion-culture","category-seminary-theological-education","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20889","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=20889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}