{"id":29795,"date":"2011-12-11T03:01:58","date_gmt":"2011-12-11T03:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/benjamin_myers-politics_of_the_empty_church_rowan_williams_and_sharia_law\/"},"modified":"2011-12-11T03:01:58","modified_gmt":"2011-12-11T03:01:58","slug":"benjamin_myers-politics_of_the_empty_church_rowan_williams_and_sharia_law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29795","title":{"rendered":"Benjamin Myers&#8211;Politics of the empty church: Rowan Williams and Shari&#39;a law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Contemporary western societies have witnessed the emergence of a new tribalism, fuelled by the logic of capitalism with its proliferation of niche identities and by the politics of multiculturalism with its advocacy of mere &#8220;difference,&#8221; while lacking the language to articulate any vision of a common good.<\/p>\n<p>Such multicultural pluralism is a mirror image of the postmodern ethics of difference, where each person is assumed to be absolutely &#8220;other.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams argues that, once this doctrine of otherness has taken hold of political imagination, we are left with the depressing prospect of &#8220;a world in which there aren&#8217;t and couldn&#8217;t be any real discussion of the goals and destiny of human beings as such.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/religion\/articles\/2011\/12\/05\/3383800.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contemporary western societies have witnessed the emergence of a new tribalism, fuelled by the logic of capitalism with its proliferation of niche identities and by the politics of multiculturalism with its advocacy of mere &#8220;difference,&#8221; while lacking the language to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=29795\">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":[36,39,50,42,175,67,199,155,117,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-anthropology","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-england-uk","category-other-faiths","category-philosophy","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29795","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=29795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}