{"id":77444,"date":"2019-01-17T08:30:40","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T13:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=77444"},"modified":"2019-01-17T06:17:23","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T11:17:23","slug":"acns-interim-director-of-the-anglican-centre-in-rome-rebuffs-resurrection-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=77444","title":{"rendered":"(ACNS) Interim Director of the Anglican Centre in Rome rebuffs \u201cresurrection\u201d criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cChrist is Risen!\u201d, Dr Shepherd said in response to widely reported criticism about his appointment. \u201cThere has been speculation in the press and on social media about my views on the resurrection of Jesus from the dead. Part of this is based on a sermon I preached in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is my faith that Jesus rose from the dead and I have never denied the reality of the empty tomb. The risen Christ was not a ghost \u2013 he ate and could be touched \u2013 but at the same time he appeared in a locked room (John 20: 26) and vanished from sight (Luke 24: 31) and he was often not immediately recognised.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicannews.org\/news\/2019\/01\/interim-director-of-the-anglican-centre-in-rome-rebuffs-resurrection-criticism.aspx\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Interim Director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Anglican?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Anglican<\/a> Centre in Rome rebuffs \u201cresurrection\u201d criticism<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AnglicanNews?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AnglicanNews<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Anglicans?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Anglicans<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9HBvEyDMw0\">https:\/\/t.co\/9HBvEyDMw0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Anglican Communion News Service (@AnglicanNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AnglicanNews\/status\/1085117326817669121?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 15, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cChrist is Risen!\u201d, Dr Shepherd said in response to widely reported criticism about his appointment. \u201cThere has been speculation in the press and on social media about my views on the resurrection of Jesus from the dead. Part of this<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=77444\">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":[395,178],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-church-of-australia","category-eschatology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77444","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=77444"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77447,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77444\/revisions\/77447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}