{"id":10448,"date":"2018-02-13T09:13:21","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T14:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=10448"},"modified":"2018-02-13T09:13:21","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T14:13:21","slug":"jane-austen-the-teacher-we-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=10448","title":{"rendered":"Jane Austen, the Teacher We Need"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Mark N. Reynolds encourages us to learn from Jane Austen, because she is a woman made in the image of God. &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/eidos\/2018\/02\/educating-heart-thought-pride-prejudice\/#OGciIqmzUxFD7vGX.99\">Jane Austen is the teacher we need<\/a>, the thinker we ignore at our peril.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Women don&#8217;t think the same way men do, generally speaking. That&#8217;s good and even godly, because the Lord created us in his image, male and female in his image. Our differences matter as mature adults designed to worship the Lord on earth.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If there is a\u00a0<i>tendency<\/i>\u00a0to value enduring relationships over abstract ideas in the ethics valued by\u00a0<i>most<\/i> (though not all) women, then Austen is an educator in that voice. She must not be reduced to entertainment, though she is good fun. She is wrestling with status, relationships, and how to morally negotiate status ethically.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Mark N. Reynolds encourages us to learn from Jane Austen, because she is a woman made in the image of God. &#8220;Jane Austen is the teacher we need, the thinker we ignore at our peril.&#8221; Women don&#8217;t think the same way men do, generally speaking. That&#8217;s good and even godly, because the Lord created &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=10448\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jane Austen, the Teacher We Need<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[1394],"class_list":["post-10448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-authors","tag-jane-austen"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}