{"id":1345,"date":"2011-11-25T23:44:26","date_gmt":"2011-11-26T07:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=1345"},"modified":"2011-11-26T10:48:38","modified_gmt":"2011-11-26T18:48:38","slug":"the-search-for-wisdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2011\/11\/the-search-for-wisdom\/","title":{"rendered":"The search for wisdom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been working my way through <em>A Treatise on Atonement<\/em> by Hosea Ballou, the great Universalist minister and theologian of the early nineteenth century. I like Ballou&#8217;s commitment to the use of common sense and reason in religion, as exemplified in passages like this one:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We feel our own imperfections; we wish for every one to seek with all his might after wisdom; and let it be found where it may, or by whom it may, we humbly wish to have it brought to light, that all may enjoy it; but do not feel authorized to condemn an honest inquirer after truth, for what he believes different from a majority of us. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This could be a central motto for religious liberals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been working my way through A Treatise on Atonement by Hosea Ballou, the great Universalist minister and theologian of the early nineteenth century. I like Ballou&#8217;s commitment to the use of common sense and reason in religion, as exemplified in passages like this one: We feel our own imperfections; we wish for every one &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2011\/11\/the-search-for-wisdom\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The search for wisdom&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,11],"tags":[142],"class_list":["post-1345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-religion-people-places","category-theology","tag-hosea-ballou"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1346,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345\/revisions\/1346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}