{"id":3319,"date":"2010-01-21T13:17:52","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T18:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=3319"},"modified":"2010-01-21T13:17:52","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T18:17:52","slug":"the-call-of-christian-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=3319","title":{"rendered":"The Call of Christian Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/byfaithonline.com\/page\/arts-culture\/the-calling-of-christian-writers\">Richard Doster writes<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>. . . Augustine argued that Christians not only had a right to employ \u201cthe art of rhetoric,\u201d but also the obligation. Though sometimes skeptical of literature, he recognized that Christians, should they abandon the field, left it open to \u201cthose who expounded falsehood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>. . . just as we need composers to create hymns, the church needs writers\u2014novelists and theologians alike\u2014to build up the body, to enhance our worship, to delight us with stories that exemplify the truths of the Christian faith. Still\u2014it may be time to confess that we\u2019ve left literature in the hands of those who have no hope to offer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Doster writes: . . . Augustine argued that Christians not only had a right to employ \u201cthe art of rhetoric,\u201d but also the obligation. Though sometimes skeptical of literature, he recognized that Christians, should they abandon the field, left it open to \u201cthose who expounded falsehood.\u201d . . . just as we need composers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=3319\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Call of Christian Writing<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"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\/3319","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=3319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}