{"id":55531,"date":"2016-09-05T01:00:11","date_gmt":"2016-09-05T01:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/bbc_bishop_david_jenkins_obituary_a_controversial_cleric\/"},"modified":"2016-09-05T01:00:11","modified_gmt":"2016-09-05T01:00:11","slug":"bbc_bishop_david_jenkins_obituary_a_controversial_cleric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55531","title":{"rendered":"(BBC) Bishop David Jenkins obituary: A controversial cleric"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Jenkins was an Anglican bishop who questioned some of the fundamental beliefs of Christianity.<br \/>\nHis views on the virgin birth and the resurrection caused a storm of protest and considerable opposition to his appointment as Bishop of Durham.<br \/>\nHis forays into the field of politics saw attacks on both Conservative and Labour administrations for what he saw was their over-reliance on market forces.<br \/>\nAn academic theologian, rather than a parish priest, he became for many, the symbol of modernisation and liberal ideas in the established church.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/uk-37093551\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Jenkins was an Anglican bishop who questioned some of the fundamental beliefs of Christianity. His views on the virgin birth and the resurrection caused a storm of protest and considerable opposition to his appointment as Bishop of Durham. His<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55531\">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":[36,48,39,50,74,186,389,635,438,199,184,108,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-history","category-church-of-england-coe","category-coe-bishops","category-death-burial-funerals","category-england-uk","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55531","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=55531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}