{"id":1349,"date":"2007-05-23T11:52:18","date_gmt":"2007-05-22T22:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/archives\/1349"},"modified":"2007-05-23T22:39:45","modified_gmt":"2007-05-23T09:39:45","slug":"but-the-awful-thing-was-that-no-one-noticed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/archives\/1349","title":{"rendered":"But the awful thing was that no one noticed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/chronicle.com\/jobs\/news\/2005\/04\/2005042501c\/careers.html\">Stanley Fish on retiring and his second and last poem<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve just finished Lesslie Newbigin&#8217;s <em>Foolishness to the Greeks: The Gospel and Western Culture<\/em>. Great book. A quote from the last chapter, in which he gives seven conditions upon which the recovery of the western church depends:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe sixth requirement I would suggest for a missionary encounter with our culture is simply the courage to hold and to proclaim a belief that cannot be proved to be true in terms of the axioms of our society. &hellip; The gospel is not a set of beliefs that arise, or could arise, from empirical observation of the whole human experience. It is the announcement of a name and a fact that offer the starting point for a new and life-long enterprise of understanding and coping with experience. It is a new starting point. To accept it means a new beginning, a radical conversion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stanley Fish on retiring and his second and last poem I&#8217;ve just finished Lesslie Newbigin&#8217;s Foolishness to the Greeks: The Gospel and Western Culture. Great book. A quote from the last chapter, in which he gives seven conditions upon which the recovery of the western church depends: The sixth requirement I would suggest for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link","category-poem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}