{"id":53800,"date":"2016-03-22T18:21:43","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T18:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bishop_graham_kings_the_michael_ramsey_book_prize_2016\/"},"modified":"2016-03-22T18:21:43","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T18:21:43","slug":"bishop_graham_kings_the_michael_ramsey_book_prize_2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=53800","title":{"rendered":"[Bishop Graham Kings] The Michael Ramsey Book Prize 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the Bloxham Festival for Faith and Literature, 19-21 February 2016, the short list of six books for the Michael Ramsey Prize 2016 was announced.<br \/>\n&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<br \/>\nI was asked to present:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;  <b>Francis Spufford<\/b>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faber.co.uk\/9780571225224-unapologetic.html\"><i>Unapologetic<\/i><\/a>: Why, despite everything, Christianity can still make surprising emotional sense (London: Faber and Faber, 2012) and<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;  <b>Frances Young<\/b>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/gb\/academic\/subjects\/religion\/theology\/gods-presence-contemporary-recapitulation-early-christianity\"><i>God\u2019s Presence<\/i><\/a>: A Contemporary Recapitulation of Early Christianity (Cambridge: CUP, 2013)<\/p>\n<p>Alison Barr, Senior Commissioning Editor at SPCK, gave an overview of the prize and the books.<\/p>\n<p>The following is a development of my comments at the Bloxham Festival on the two books by Frances and Francis.<\/p>\n<p>1. <b><i>Unapologetic<\/i> by Francis Spufford<\/b><\/p>\n<p>This could win a prize for the longest sub title. The publishers, Faber and Faber, have even managed to squeeze it onto the spine of the book.<\/p>\n<p>Spufford explains that he wrote the book \u201d\u02dcto try to extricate for people, from the misleading ruins of half memory, what Christianity feels like from the inside.\u2019 (p.22)<\/p>\n<p><b>(a)   What kind of a book is this?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Well, unapologetically, it is a popular defense of the Christian faith from emotional sense and a presentation of the good news of Jesus Christ in the face of New Atheism..<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.missiontheologyanglican.org\/interweavings\/the-michael-ramsey-book-prize-2016-interweavings-no-6---february-2016-by-graham-kings\">Read it all<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the Bloxham Festival for Faith and Literature, 19-21 February 2016, the short list of six books for the Michael Ramsey Prize 2016 was announced. &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.. I was asked to present: &#8211; Francis Spufford, Unapologetic: Why, despite everything, Christianity can<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=53800\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":832,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,74,389,635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53800","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\/832"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}