{"id":42440,"date":"2014-02-05T15:40:17","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T15:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/christians_need_to_develop_public_theology_mark_tooley_says\/"},"modified":"2014-02-05T15:40:17","modified_gmt":"2014-02-05T15:40:17","slug":"christians_need_to_develop_public_theology_mark_tooley_says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42440","title":{"rendered":"(B Stan.) Christians need to develop public theology, Mark Tooley says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI think that historically, the institutional church teaches a broad principle politically. But its primary vocation is, of course, to proclaim the gospel, to evangelize and to disciple,\u201d\u009d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Churches support, encourage and guide believers, but Christians have a responsibility to form their own political ideologies, he asserted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe more specific vocations for the details of politics are primarily left up to the Christian lay people,\u201d\u009d Tooley said. \u201cSometimes, we confuse those vocations, but I think it is an important distinction.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baptiststandard.com\/news\/texas\/16068-christians-need-to-develop-public-theology-pundit-tells-baylor-crowd\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI think that historically, the institutional church teaches a broad principle politically. But its primary vocation is, of course, to proclaim the gospel, to evangelize and to disciple,\u201d\u009d he said. Churches support, encourage and guide believers, but Christians have a<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=42440\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42440","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=42440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}