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There is no essence of Christianity. There is only Christianity as it manifests in a given time and place practiced by people who are always already themselves contextually situated. Even things that look like internal reductions \u2014 Jesus\u2019 take on the\u00a0shema<\/em>, or his invocation of the Golden Rule, or James\u2019 \u201ctrue religion\u201d of looking after widows and orphans \u2014 are set deeply within a particular sociopolitical\/religious context, birthed within a particular milieu. Whatever it is that I might find interesting about Christianity, or worth hanging onto, is irreducibly bound up in all that stuff I find less tenable.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2013Ted Troxell, in a post \u201cProne to Wander<\/a>\u201d at his blog Irritable Reaching<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There is no essence of Christianity. There is only Christianity as it manifests in a given time and place practiced by people who are always already themselves contextually situated. Even things that look like internal reductions \u2014 Jesus\u2019 take on the\u00a0shema, or his invocation of the Golden Rule, or James\u2019 \u201ctrue religion\u201d of looking after […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1846,3150,4044,5677,11191],"class_list":["post-760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-christianity-religion","tag-essentialism","tag-golden-rule","tag-jesus","tag-shema"],"yoast_head":"\nQuote of the Day (Ted Troxell)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"There is no essence of Christianity. 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