{"id":844,"date":"2016-04-21T21:32:18","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T09:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radiescent.wordpress.com\/?p=844"},"modified":"2016-04-21T21:32:18","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T09:32:18","slug":"ellul-on-the-20th-century-decline-of-the-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/2016\/04\/21\/ellul-on-the-20th-century-decline-of-the-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Ellul on the 20th century decline of the church"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The decline of the western Church seems fortunate to me in the sense that those who drift away from the church never really belonged to it. There was a crisis in this church. But it was a crisis dating back to the eighteenth century whose results appeared only in the nineteen-fifties. And it had to happen to purify the situation: now the truth of God can again be proclaimed, free from political and social compromises, from class distinctions, and above all, from the illegitimate use of the Christianity. By God&#8217;s grace, it is no longer <em>useful<\/em> to be a Christian or to make reference to the church and the Bible.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>FROM: Jacques Ellul, <em>In Season Out of Season: An Introduction to the Thought of Jacques Ellul (<\/em>San Francisco: Harper &amp; Row, 1982), 210\u2013211.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The decline of the western Church seems fortunate to me in the sense that those who drift away from the church never really belonged to it. There was a crisis in this church. But it was a crisis dating back to the eighteenth century whose results appeared only in the nineteen-fifties. And it had to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,55],"tags":[89],"class_list":["post-844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church","category-quotes","tag-ellul"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rad.net.nz\/radiescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}