{"id":1785,"date":"2009-07-26T18:27:44","date_gmt":"2009-07-26T06:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/?p=1785"},"modified":"2009-07-26T18:36:55","modified_gmt":"2009-07-26T06:36:55","slug":"offmap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/archives\/1785","title":{"rendered":"Offmap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m following a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bringthebooks.org\/2009\/07\/god-will-fight-for-us-is-old-testament.html\">reformed chap&#8217;s ambivalent travels<\/a> through <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=rH4BQBGBhgMC&#038;lpg=PP1&#038;dq=politics%20of%20jesus&#038;pg=PP1\">Yoder&#8217;s <em>Politics of Jesus<\/em><\/a> (which you ought to read). He quotes Yoder thus:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In correlation with our sense of impossibility we tend to think of \u201capocalyptic\u201d promises as pointing \u201coff the map\u201d of human experience, off the scale of time, in that they announce an end to history\u2026.Jesus\u2019 proclamation of the kingdom was unacceptable to most of his listeners not because they thought it could not happen but because they feared it might, and that it would bring down judgment on them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m following a reformed chap&#8217;s ambivalent travels through Yoder&#8217;s Politics of Jesus (which you ought to read). He quotes Yoder thus: In correlation with our sense of impossibility we tend to think of \u201capocalyptic\u201d promises as pointing \u201coff the map\u201d of human experience, off the scale of time, in that they announce an end to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,3,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-link","category-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785","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=1785"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1790,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1785\/revisions\/1790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}