{"id":7496,"date":"2010-08-13T23:34:20","date_gmt":"2010-08-14T06:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=7496"},"modified":"2012-08-23T15:30:14","modified_gmt":"2012-08-23T22:30:14","slug":"farewell-isaac-bonewits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=7496","title":{"rendered":"Farewell, Isaac Bonewits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Isaac Bonewits died yesterday. He was not only an influential Neopagan thinker and organizer, and a key figure in the North American Druid community, but was also affiliated with the Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans (CUUPS). <a href=\"http:\/\/wildhunt.org\/blog\/2010\/08\/tributes-to-isaac-bonewits.html\">At <em>The Wild Hunt<\/em> blog, Jason Pitzl-Waters has links to tributes and obituaries<\/a>, and his commenters have added other links.<\/p>\n<p>To me, Bonewits was most important as a thinker. Back in the 1970s, he coined the term &#8220;thealogy&#8221; as an alternative to the term &#8220;theology,&#8221; which latter term may imply certain beliefs and biases; most importantly, linguistically speaking &#8220;theology&#8221; has a definite masculine gender (from its root &#8220;theos&#8221;), and forming a complementary word of feminine gender was a brilliant move in the ongoing feminist critique of religion. His writing and thinking deserves wider consideration, beyond the Neopagan circles to which it seems to have been largely restricted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isaac Bonewits died yesterday. He was not only an influential Neopagan thinker and organizer, and a key figure in the North American Druid community, but was also affiliated with the Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans (CUUPS). At The Wild Hunt blog, Jason Pitzl-Waters has links to tributes and obituaries, and his commenters have added other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[602],"class_list":["post-7496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theology","tag-isaac-bonewits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7496"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8205,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7496\/revisions\/8205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}