{"id":55945,"date":"2016-10-11T03:01:33","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T03:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/former_bishop_of_durham_tom_wright_says_christianity_should_be_taught_as_hi\/"},"modified":"2016-10-11T03:01:33","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T03:01:33","slug":"former_bishop_of_durham_tom_wright_says_christianity_should_be_taught_as_hi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55945","title":{"rendered":"Former Bishop of Durham Tom Wright says Christianity should be taught as history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Wright said: \u201cIf a pupil wanted to study Jesus in his historical context, this would not be seen as part of the general history syllabus, but would be something that was the preserve of religious studies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReligious studies staff would then say they had Judaism, Buddhism and Confucius, as well as Christianity, and maybe there would be something on the Gospels in the corner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt seems to me, in terms of the history of the western world, the narrative of how Christianity got going and who Jesus was are huge questions that ought to be in a more general syllabus.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecourier.co.uk\/fp\/news\/scotland\/291811\/christianity-should-be-taught-as-history-claims-st-andrews-academic\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Wright said: \u201cIf a pupil wanted to study Jesus in his historical context, this would not be seen as part of the general history syllabus, but would be something that was the preserve of religious studies. \u201cReligious studies staff<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=55945\">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":[39,50,111,199,133,108,326,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-education","category-england-uk","category-history","category-religion-culture","category-scotland","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55945","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=55945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}