{"id":41353,"date":"2013-12-02T22:30:12","date_gmt":"2013-12-02T22:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rns_francis_spuffords_christian_apology_aimed_at_godless_europeans\/"},"modified":"2013-12-02T22:30:12","modified_gmt":"2013-12-02T22:30:12","slug":"rns_francis_spuffords_christian_apology_aimed_at_godless_europeans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41353","title":{"rendered":"(RNS) Francis Spufford\u2019s Christian apology aimed at \u201d\u02dcgodless Europeans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British novelist and essayist Francis Spufford\u2019s spirited defense of the Christian religion is in some ways like eavesdropping on a missionary conversation with the pagans of antiquity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnapologetic: Why, Despite Everything, Christianity Can Still Make Surprising Emotional Sense\u201d\u009d \u201d\u201d is the latest attempt at an ancient literary form, the Christian apology, and it makes its appearance in the United States more than a year after it was published in England.<\/p>\n<p>Spufford\u2019s defense of Christianity is aimed primarily at what he calls \u201cgodless Europeans,\u201d\u009d the post-Enlightenment elites who tend to regard religion with bemusement as a silly fairy tale, if not with open hostility as a dangerous superstition.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.religionnews.com\/2013\/12\/02\/francis-spuffords-christian-apology-aimed-godless-europeans\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British novelist and essayist Francis Spufford\u2019s spirited defense of the Christian religion is in some ways like eavesdropping on a missionary conversation with the pagans of antiquity. \u201cUnapologetic: Why, Despite Everything, Christianity Can Still Make Surprising Emotional Sense\u201d\u009d \u201d\u201d is<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=41353\">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":[39,50,174,92,200,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-apologetics","category-books","category-europe","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41353","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=41353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}