{"id":31991,"date":"2012-04-16T02:28:56","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T02:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ed_stetzer-new_research_pluralism_pastors_and_the_people\/"},"modified":"2012-04-16T02:28:56","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T02:28:56","slug":"ed_stetzer-new_research_pluralism_pastors_and_the_people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31991","title":{"rendered":"Ed Stetzer&#8211;New Research:  Pluralism, Pastors, and the People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We released some new research yesterday at LifeWay Research showing 84% of Protestant pastors disagree that eternal life can be obtained through religions other than Christianity. That view is generally called &#8220;universalism&#8221; or &#8220;pluralism&#8221; (though technically not the same thing, they are often used interchangeably and relate to one another). So, based on this data, Protestant pastors are overwhelmingly not pluralist\/universalist.<\/p>\n<p>However, the same cannot be said of their church members. When presented with the same statement, just 48 percent of adults who attend a Protestant church once a month or more disagree strongly and 9 percent disagree somewhat.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edstetzer.com\/2012\/04\/universalism-pastors-and-the-p.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We released some new research yesterday at LifeWay Research showing 84% of Protestant pastors disagree that eternal life can be obtained through religions other than Christianity. That view is generally called &#8220;universalism&#8221; or &#8220;pluralism&#8221; (though technically not the same thing,<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31991\">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":[48,39,437,435,184,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-ministry-of-the-laity","category-ministry-of-the-ordained","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31991","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=31991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}