{"id":1540,"date":"2008-11-12T09:32:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-12T09:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=1540"},"modified":"2008-11-12T09:32:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-12T09:32:00","slug":"private-judgement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=1540","title":{"rendered":"Private Judgement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Something I&#8217;ve been thinking about (and teaching about) quite a lot recently, but <a href=\"http:\/\/bishopalan.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/retreat-notes-1-community-stability.html\">+Alan nails it<\/a>: &#8220;Faith which is simply private judgment writ large makes \u201cChoice\u201d itself a greater good than what is chosen can ever be.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is why Protestantism will pass, and eventually be seen as a primarily cultural, rather than spiritual, phenomenon.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pondering a potentially radical step in terms of Mersea life, to do with discipleship and the call to greater discipleship. More on that anon.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something I&#8217;ve been thinking about (and teaching about) quite a lot recently, but +Alan nails it: &#8220;Faith which is simply private judgment writ large makes \u201cChoice\u201d itself a greater good than what is chosen can ever be.&#8221; This is why &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=1540\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[30,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spirituality","category-theology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-oQ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}