{"id":31021,"date":"2012-02-24T16:30:30","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T16:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/leading_birmingham_philosopher_of_religion_john_hick_dies_at_the_age_of_90\/"},"modified":"2012-02-24T16:30:30","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T16:30:30","slug":"leading_birmingham_philosopher_of_religion_john_hick_dies_at_the_age_of_90","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31021","title":{"rendered":"Leading Birmingham Philosopher of Religion John Hick dies at the age of 90"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Politicians and academics have paid tribute to a world-renowned Birmingham philosopher who \u201cwould not flinch from controversy\u201d\u009d and who was once accused of heresy.<\/p>\n<p>Professor John Hick, seen by many as the most influential philosopher of religion of recent times, has died just weeks after celebrating his 90th birthday.<\/p>\n<p>The former University of Birmingham academic and church minister is remembered for helping to stop South African apartheid-era cricketers playing in Birmingham.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.birminghampost.net\/news\/west-midlands-news\/2012\/02\/23\/leading-birmingham-philosopher-of-religion-john-hick-dies-at-the-age-of-90-65233-30386978\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politicians and academics have paid tribute to a world-renowned Birmingham philosopher who \u201cwould not flinch from controversy\u201d\u009d and who was once accused of heresy. Professor John Hick, seen by many as the most influential philosopher of religion of recent times,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31021\">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":[48,39,42,162,438,178,161,184,117,163,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-christology","category-death-burial-funerals","category-eschatology","category-inter-faith-relations","category-parish-ministry","category-philosophy","category-the-trinity-father-son-and-holy-spirit","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31021","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=31021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}