{"id":5725,"date":"2016-03-20T08:18:58","date_gmt":"2016-03-20T08:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=5725"},"modified":"2019-11-22T16:28:11","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T16:28:11","slug":"i-so-agree-with-rowan-on-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=5725","title":{"rendered":"I so agree with Rowan on this&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2016\/18-march\/features\/interviews\/interview-rowan-williamstheologian-master-of-magdalene-college-cambridge\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;I would plead with the Church to take seriously the need for investing in theological education at all levels \u2014 to recognise that there is a huge appetite for theology among so many laypeople, and thus a need for clergy who can respond and engage intelligently. The middle-term future may need to be one where there are more independent centres of theological study outside universities, given the erosion of resources in higher education, and I think it\u2019s time more people started thinking about what that might entail in terms of funding.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more on why, see <a href=\"http:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?page_id=2556\" target=\"_blank\">my book<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I would plead with the Church to take seriously the need for investing in theological education at all levels \u2014 to recognise that there is a huge appetite for theology among so many laypeople, and thus a need for clergy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=5725\">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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3npsc-1ul","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5725","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=5725"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5737,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5725\/revisions\/5737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}