{"id":4741,"date":"2009-05-06T06:19:50","date_gmt":"2009-05-06T06:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leithart.level2d.com\/?p=1741"},"modified":"2017-09-06T23:46:04","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T17:46:04","slug":"ladder-recast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/leithart\/2009\/05\/ladder-recast\/","title":{"rendered":"Ladder recast"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\">\n<\/head><body><p><\/p><p> Yoder writes of the difference between theories of emanation and John\u2019s Christology: \u201cinstead of tailoring Jesus to fit the slots prepared for him, John breaks the cosmology\u2019s rules.  At the bottom of the ladder, the Logos is said to have become flesh, to have lived among us as in a tent, symbol of mortality, and to have suffered rejection by us creatures.  At the top of the ladder, the Logos is claimed to be coeval with God, not merely the first of man emanations.  But then there is no more ladder: the cosmology has been smashed, or melted down for recasting.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yoder writes of the difference between theories of emanation and John\u2019s Christology: \u201cinstead of tailoring Jesus to fit the slots prepared for him, John breaks the cosmology\u2019s rules. 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