{"id":2159,"date":"2008-01-10T09:56:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-10T09:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=2159"},"modified":"2008-01-10T09:56:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-10T09:56:00","slug":"very-sharp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=2159","title":{"rendered":"Very sharp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/revjph.blogspot.com\/2008\/01\/right-result-for-wrong-sort-of.html\">Mad Priest on good form<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An open evangelical is a Christian who, literally, &#8220;opens&#8221; the Bible, reads it and believes every word it says.<\/p>\n<p>A conservative evangelical doesn&#8217;t need to &#8220;open&#8221; the Bible. He has already decided what the Bible says &#8211; &#8220;It says what it has always said.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve managed to get out of bed today, which is progress, though I&#8217;m still distinctly under-the-weather. I hope in particular to be well on Saturday morning as I have a major parish event to handle. In the meantime I&#8217;m catching up on some blog reading\/ newspaper reading, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thinkinganglicans.org.uk\/archives\/002844.html\">this issue with Elaine Storkey<\/a> I find fascinating. What <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haloscan.com\/comments\/elizaphanian\/6262912939311127373\/#170832\">I said to Tim in a comment<\/a> is relevant here &#8211; it&#8217;s not that I want to kick the conservatives out or break communion with them, it&#8217;s more the other way around. In some small way I think that <a href=\"http:\/\/elizaphanian.blogspot.com\/2008\/01\/three-schematics-for-place-of-scripture.html\">making my understanding of authority explicit<\/a> clarifies this underlying issue.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mad Priest on good form An open evangelical is a Christian who, literally, &#8220;opens&#8221; the Bible, reads it and believes every word it says. A conservative evangelical doesn&#8217;t need to &#8220;open&#8221; the Bible. He has already decided what the Bible &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=2159\">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":[31,12,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ang-communion","category-church","category-evangelicalism"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-yP","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159","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=2159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}