{"id":1044,"date":"2008-12-27T20:03:01","date_gmt":"2008-12-28T04:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2008\/12\/27\/the-certainty-of-uncertainty\/"},"modified":"2008-12-27T20:03:01","modified_gmt":"2008-12-28T04:03:01","slug":"the-certainty-of-uncertainty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/2008\/12\/27\/the-certainty-of-uncertainty\/","title":{"rendered":"the certainty of uncertainty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That would be the mark of neo-orthodoxy, I think. Or would it be the uncertainty of certainty? One can never tell.<\/p>\n<p>This line illustrates what I mean:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>If we cannot say anything adequately, we can say some things inadequately.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>That would be H. Richard Niebuhr in <em>Christ &amp; Culture<\/em>, a book I do not recommend anyone read unless they are thoroughly schooled in theology. Niebuhr is a slippery character with some keen insight into some things, but with a fundamental uncertainty about who our Lord really is or if he is all the Bible says he is.<\/p>\n<p>But his line seems so appropriate for blogging, don&#8217;t you think?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"don_sig2\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: inline; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"50\" alt=\"don_sig2\" src=\"http:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/12\/don-sig218.png\" width=\"150\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That would be the mark of neo-orthodoxy, I think. Or would it be the uncertainty of certainty? One can never tell. This line illustrates what I mean:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[106,43],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2fYWj-gQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oxgoad.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}