{"id":57366,"date":"2017-02-13T14:03:42","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T14:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/ian_paul_is_evangelical_theology_abusive\/"},"modified":"2017-02-13T14:03:42","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T14:03:42","slug":"ian_paul_is_evangelical_theology_abusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=57366","title":{"rendered":"[Ian Paul] Is evangelical theology abusive?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>..But is Andrew Watson right? Or does evangelicalism have a particular problem in this area? It is important to put such a question in the context of other tragic examples of abuse. Bishop Peter Ball was firmly in the sacramental tradition, and was convicted of child sex abuse. John Howard Yoder fell from grace in the Mennonite\/Anabaptist tradition. And how quickly we forget the case of Chris Brain and the Nine O\u2019Clock service in Sheffield, firmly in the progressive\/\u2019original blessing\u2019 theological tradition. What these situations have in common is a powerful, charismatic figure who attains a status and a following where both victims and \u201d\u02dcobservers\u2019 find it difficult to ask the appropriate questions, and where structures of accountability fail or simply do not exist.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.psephizo.com\/life-ministry\/is-evangelical-theology-abusive\">Read it all<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>..But is Andrew Watson right? Or does evangelicalism have a particular problem in this area? It is important to put such a question in the context of other tragic examples of abuse. Bishop Peter Ball was firmly in the sacramental<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=57366\">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":[39,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-children"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57366","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=57366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}