{"id":582,"date":"2012-08-05T07:21:13","date_gmt":"2012-08-05T13:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/paperbacktheology\/?p=582"},"modified":"2012-08-05T07:21:13","modified_gmt":"2012-08-05T13:21:13","slug":"john-ortberg-and-david-fitch-on-public-jesus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/paperbacktheology\/2012\/08\/john-ortberg-and-david-fitch-on-public-jesus.html","title":{"rendered":"John Ortberg and David Fitch on Public Jesus"},"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\"><\/head><body><p>\u201cTim is raising big-time questions about the most important person ever. Read it and get ready to think!\u201d \u2013 John Ortberg, author of <em>The Life You\u2019ve Always Wanted<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTim Suttle\u2019s\u00a0<em>Public Jesus<\/em>\u00a0offers us an alternative to the tired extremes present in Christian politics today. He reminds us that the Kingdom of God has already broken into our world, and this changes everything. There\u2019s a new imagination here for engaging the world that we sorely need.\u00a0 Are you frustrated with politics in America? Read this book!\u201d \u2013 David Fitch, Lindner Professor of Evangelical Theology, Northern Seminary, Author <em>The End of Evangelicalism?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cTim is raising big-time questions about the most important person ever. 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