{"id":13887,"date":"2013-04-05T14:44:29","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T18:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/?p=13887"},"modified":"2013-04-05T14:44:29","modified_gmt":"2013-04-05T18:44:29","slug":"keith-ward-on-idealism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2013\/04\/keith-ward-on-idealism.html","title":{"rendered":"Keith Ward on Idealism"},"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><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Keith Ward - Idealism as a Metaphysical Worldview\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gM2mcbdEH00?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/thinkingreed.wordpress.com\/2013\/04\/05\/idealism-in-twenty-minutes-2\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Lee M. shared this video on his blog A Thinking Reed<\/a>. It is based on his book\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0802866603\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0802866603&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=jamefmcgrshom-20\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">More Than Matter?: Is There More to Life Than Molecules?<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important;margin: 0px !important\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0802866603\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\"><\/em> which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2012\/05\/review-of-more-than-matter-by-keith-ward.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">I blogged about almost a year ago<\/a> (see also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jesuscreed\/2011\/05\/24\/are-we-more-than-matter-1\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">the discussion of the book at Jesus Creed<\/a>).<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lee M. shared this video on his blog A Thinking Reed. It is based on his book\u00a0More Than Matter?: Is There More to Life Than Molecules? which I blogged about almost a year ago (see also the discussion of the book at Jesus Creed).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[1835,1846,2144,4959,6123,7126,9080,9084],"class_list":["post-13887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy","tag-christian","tag-christianity-religion","tag-consciousness","tag-idealism","tag-keith-ward","tag-matter","tag-philosopher","tag-philosophy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Keith Ward on Idealism<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Lee M. shared this video on his blog A Thinking Reed. 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