{"id":45973,"date":"2014-09-21T14:40:52","date_gmt":"2014-09-21T14:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/fulcrum_bishop_grahams_kings_review_of_being_christian_by_rowan_williams\/"},"modified":"2014-09-21T14:40:52","modified_gmt":"2014-09-21T14:40:52","slug":"fulcrum_bishop_grahams_kings_review_of_being_christian_by_rowan_williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45973","title":{"rendered":"(Fulcrum) Bishop Grahams Kings Review of \u201d\u02dcBeing Christian\u2019 by Rowan Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like prayer according to George Herbert, this is \u201d\u02dcsomething understood.\u2019 His writing is eminently sensible, with light touches of humour and irony, and only hints of a vast hinterland of learning.<\/p>\n<p>There are four chapters: Baptism, Bible, Eucharist and Prayer. Neatly alternating sacrament and word, the heart of the Christian faith is circulated. The questions for reflection or discussion at the end of each chapter, and the notes for further reading, are enticing and challenging.<\/p>\n<p>He suggests, \u201d\u02dcPerhaps baptism really ought to have some health warnings attached to it: \u201cIf you take this step, if you go into the depths, it will be transfiguring, exhilarating, life-giving and very, very dangerous.\u201d\u009d\u2019<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fulcrum-anglican.org.uk\/articles\/review-of-being-christian-by-rowan-williams-spck-2014\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like prayer according to George Herbert, this is \u201d\u02dcsomething understood.\u2019 His writing is eminently sensible, with light touches of humour and irony, and only hints of a vast hinterland of learning. There are four chapters: Baptism, Bible, Eucharist and Prayer.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=45973\">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":[36,48,39,381,74,67,92,389,635,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-rowan-williams","category-anglican-provinces","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-books","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45973","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=45973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}