{"id":3572,"date":"2008-07-31T10:18:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-31T10:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/07\/quote-of-the-day-stephen-j-nichols\/"},"modified":"2008-07-31T10:18:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-31T10:18:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-stephen-j-nichols","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/07\/quote-of-the-day-stephen-j-nichols.html","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day (Stephen J. Nichols)"},"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><div align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size:130%;color:#660000\">\u201cContemporary Christian Music\u2026represents for many contemporary evangelicals the sum of their theological training and discipleship\u201d<\/span> (Stephen J. Nichols, <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0830828494?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0830828494\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jesus Made in America: A Cultural History from the Puritans to the Passion of the Christ<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"1\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=jamefmcgrshom-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0830828494\" width=\"1\" border=\"0\"><\/i> (Downers Grove: IVP, 2008) p.16). <\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-3050014783705967578?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cContemporary Christian Music\u2026represents for many contemporary evangelicals the sum of their theological training and discipleship\u201d (Stephen J. 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