{"id":56768,"date":"2016-12-21T07:12:45","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T07:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/nt_wright_incomprehensible_word_uncomprehending_world_the_puzzle_of_christm\/"},"modified":"2016-12-21T07:12:45","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T07:12:45","slug":"nt_wright_incomprehensible_word_uncomprehending_world_the_puzzle_of_christm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56768","title":{"rendered":"[NT Wright] Incomprehensible Word, Uncomprehending World: The Puzzle of Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>..Don&#8217;t imagine that the world divides naturally into those who can understand what Jesus is saying and those who can&#8217;t. By ourselves, none of us can. Jesus was born into a world where everyone was deaf and blind to him. But some, in fear and trembling, have allowed his words to challenge, rescue, heal and transform them. That is what&#8217;s offered at Christmas, not a better-focused religion for those who already like that sort of thing, but a Word which is incomprehensible in our language but which, when we learn to hear, understand and believe it, will transform our whole selves with its judgment and mercy&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/religion\/articles\/2016\/12\/19\/4594929.htm\">Read it all<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>..Don&#8217;t imagine that the world divides naturally into those who can understand what Jesus is saying and those who can&#8217;t. By ourselves, none of us can. Jesus was born into a world where everyone was deaf and blind to him.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=56768\">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":[48,575,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-christmas","category-church-year-liturgical-seasons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56768","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=56768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}