{"id":223,"date":"2008-10-01T16:49:33","date_gmt":"2008-10-01T16:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/?p=223"},"modified":"2008-10-01T16:49:33","modified_gmt":"2008-10-01T16:49:33","slug":"the-elephant-in-theologys-living-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2008\/10\/01\/the-elephant-in-theologys-living-room\/","title":{"rendered":"The elephant in theology&#8217;s living room"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boarsheadtavern.com\/archives\/2008\/09\/17\/1264458.html\">comment<\/a> a while back from Boar&#8217;s Head Tavern fellow The Scylding gets to the heart of my frustration with theology as it is typically discussed.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I worship Christ, not reason. And, contra the [Francis] <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Francis_Schaeffer\">Schaeffer<\/a> types, that is NOT a 1-1 correlation. The desire to equate Christianity with reason comes from the surrender to Modernism. When it comes to debates and discussions on truth, tradition, sacramentology, ecclesiology and a mulitude of other\u00a0and theological \u2018ologies, the worship of Reason is the elephant in the room.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone lazyload\" data-src=\"\/coffee_images\/elephant-in-living-room.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"385\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 425px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 425\/385;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This comment a while back from Boar&#8217;s Head Tavern fellow The Scylding gets to the heart of my frustration with theology as it is typically discussed. I worship Christ, not reason. And, contra the [Francis] Schaeffer types, that is NOT a 1-1 correlation. The desire to equate Christianity with reason comes from the surrender to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2008\/10\/01\/the-elephant-in-theologys-living-room\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The elephant in theology&#8217;s living room&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intellectualism"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223\/revisions\/224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}