{"id":15305,"date":"2015-11-02T18:19:14","date_gmt":"2015-11-02T23:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/?p=15305"},"modified":"2015-11-02T18:19:14","modified_gmt":"2015-11-02T23:19:14","slug":"janus-in-academia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2015\/11\/janus-in-academia\/","title":{"rendered":"Janus in Academia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The continuing dustup between the New York Times\u2019 Ross Douthat and \u201cTheologians\u201d of American academia has resulted in some interesting articles.<\/p>\n<p>First off this one by a student who had previously entered the PhD program in theology at Boston College.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicworldreport.com\/Item\/4333\/two_years_among_the_liberal_theologians.aspx\">Two Years Among the Liberal Theologians<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The article described what I expected regarding the two faces of many American Catholic theologians. Who lean towards heterodoxy in the classroom, but project a different public face. Traipsing all around heresy, but will have a fainting spell if you use the \u201cH\u201d word.<\/p>\n<p>Another good read from Catholic World Report is: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicworldreport.com\/Blog\/4334\/modern_academic_theology_needs_to_rediscover_god.aspx\">Modern academic theology needs to rediscover God<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thinking about that list of <em>academics<\/em> condemning Ross Douthat, it is not surprising that all but one of the priestly signers were Jesuits. Too often instead of putting S.J. after their names, SJW would be more appropriate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The continuing dustup between the New York Times\u2019 Ross Douthat and \u201cTheologians\u201d of American academia has resulted in some interesting articles. First off this one by a student who had&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-punditry","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15306,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15305\/revisions\/15306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}