{"id":1170,"date":"2010-04-16T09:22:49","date_gmt":"2010-04-16T16:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tgdarkly.com\/blog\/?p=1170"},"modified":"2010-04-16T09:22:49","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T16:22:49","slug":"hopeful-though-for-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/2010\/04\/16\/hopeful-though-for-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Hopeful Though for the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The death of Jesus on the cross is the <em>centre<\/em> of  all Christian theology.\u00a0 It is not the only theme of theology, but it is  in effect the entry to its problems and answers on earth.\u00a0 All  Christian statements about God, about creation, about sin and death have  their focal point in the crucified Christ.\u00a0 Al Christian statements  about history, about the church, about faith and sanctification, about  the future and about hope stem from the crucified Christ. . . . [T]he  centre is occupied not by &#8216;cross and resurrection&#8217;, but by <em>the  resurrection of the crucified Christ<\/em>, which qualifies his death as  something that has happened for us, and <em>the cross of the risen Christ<\/em>,  which reveals and makes accessible to those who are dying his  resurrection from the dead.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; Jurgen Moltmann, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Crucified-God-Foundation-Criticism-Christian\/dp\/0800628225\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1271434874&amp;sr=8-1\">The  Crucified God<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The death of Jesus on the cross is the centre of all Christian theology.\u00a0 It is not the only theme of theology, but it is in effect the entry to its problems and answers on earth.\u00a0 All Christian statements about God, about creation, about sin and death have their focal point in the crucified Christ.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[58,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hope","category-hopeful-thoughts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p824rZ-iS","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}