{"id":3880,"date":"2008-02-28T08:46:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-28T08:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/02\/quote-of-the-day-doug-chaplin\/"},"modified":"2008-02-28T08:46:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-28T08:46:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-doug-chaplin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2008\/02\/quote-of-the-day-doug-chaplin.html","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day (Doug Chaplin)"},"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\">\u201cThere is no gospel that does not wear cultural clothes, no simple faith that owes nothing to general education for its expression and understanding. It is a necessary corollary of the Word made flesh, that the message of Jesus wears the clothes of Jerusalem and Athens, Illinois or Cambridge\u201d <\/span>(Doug Chaplin, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metacatholic.co.uk\/2008\/02\/the-rhetoric-of-athens-and-jerusalem\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cThe rhetoric of Athens and Jerusalem\u201d, blog entry on Metacatholic<\/a>. I recommend reading the whole post). <\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/7622297540113836091-7540884763448166511?l=exploringourmatrix.blogspot.com\" alt=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThere is no gospel that does not wear cultural clothes, no simple faith that owes nothing to general education for its expression and understanding. 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