{"id":28577,"date":"2023-04-07T09:59:10","date_gmt":"2023-04-07T08:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=28577"},"modified":"2023-04-07T09:59:10","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T08:59:10","slug":"the-three-great-crises-of-christianity-what-is-god-what-is-the-church-what-is-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=28577","title":{"rendered":"The three great crises of Christianity: what is God? what is the Church? what is man?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote>&#8220;The situation was summed up by the Cambridge historian Richard Rex, who suggests that there have been three great crises in the history of the Church. The first, in its early centuries, revolved around the question \u2018What is God?\u2019. That is to say: how many natures were in Jesus Christ, how many persons in the Trinity, and so on. Then, during the Reformation, \u2018What is the Church?\u2019. The third crisis, he argues, is happening now, over the question of \u2018What is man?\u2019. This relates \u2013 as he memorably puts it \u2013 to \u2018an entire alphabet of beliefs and practices: abortion, bisexuality, contraception, divorce, euthanasia, family, gender, homosexuality, infertility treatment\u2026\u2019<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\nThis is a quote from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spectator.co.uk\/article\/the-lost-shepherds-can-justin-welby-and-pope-francis-keep-their-flocks\/\">an interesting article<\/a> in the &#8220;Spectator&#8221; magazine. \n<p>\nI feel for my Christian relatives and friends because I see another great schism on the horizon. For me as an atheist, the answer to the first question is: there is no God. Therefore the second question does not matter to me. The third question needs to be answered with tolerance and acceptance and respect as people decide who they are and what they want to do with their body. \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The situation was summed up by the Cambridge historian Richard Rex, who suggests that there have been three great crises in the history of the Church. The first, in its early centuries, revolved around the question \u2018What is God?\u2019. That is to say: how many natures were in Jesus Christ, how many persons in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28577"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28579,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28577\/revisions\/28579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}