{"id":41238,"date":"2013-11-26T02:19:20","date_gmt":"2013-11-26T02:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bbc_doctor_who_time_travel_through_faith\/"},"modified":"2013-11-26T02:19:20","modified_gmt":"2013-11-26T02:19:20","slug":"bbc_doctor_who_time_travel_through_faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41238","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) Doctor Who: Time travel through faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Doctor Who fans celebrate the series&#8217;s 50th anniversary Dr Andrew Crome, lecturer in the history of modern Christianity at the University of Manchester, explains how the time-travelling Doctor allows us to explore different beliefs and ethical viewpoints.<\/p>\n<p>A near immortal crossing space and time, followers split over interpretation, characters in strange hats&#8230; Perhaps it is no surprise Doctor Who is sometimes described as a form of surrogate religion.<\/p>\n<p>However, behind this light-hearted comparison lies a grain of truth, as Doctor Who has continually engaged with important religious themes across its 50-year run.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/religion\/0\/24924746\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Doctor Who fans celebrate the series&#8217;s 50th anniversary Dr Andrew Crome, lecturer in the history of modern Christianity at the University of Manchester, explains how the time-travelling Doctor allows us to explore different beliefs and ethical viewpoints. A near<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41238\">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":[39,50,199,93,108,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-england-uk","category-movies-television","category-religion-culture","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41238","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=41238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}