{"id":79,"date":"2024-11-21T21:58:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T21:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/2024\/11\/21\/cherry-picking-the-fathers\/"},"modified":"2024-11-21T21:58:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T21:58:00","slug":"cherry-picking-the-fathers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/2024\/11\/21\/cherry-picking-the-fathers\/","title":{"rendered":"Cherry Picking the Fathers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Great post on Evangelicals cherry picking of the Church Fathers: <a href=\"https:\/\/orthodoxbridge.com\/2024\/09\/20\/does-theological-retrieval-work\/\" target=\"_blank\">Does Theological Retrieval Work?<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Gavin Ortlund\u2019s switch to the Baptist tradition based on his personal study is a good example of theology as a self-constructed project (See Ortlund 2013). Herein lies the methodological divide between Protestantism and Eastern Orthodoxy. <b>In Orthodoxy, one receives the Faith from the Church and one does theology within the context of the Church. In Protestantism, one constructs theology based upon one\u2019s careful study of the Bible.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great post on Evangelicals cherry picking of the Church Fathers: Does Theological Retrieval Work? Gavin Ortlund\u2019s switch to the Baptist tradition based on his personal study is a good example of theology as a self-constructed project (See Ortlund 2013). Herein lies the methodological divide between Protestantism and Eastern Orthodoxy. In Orthodoxy, one receives the Faith [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-calvinism","category-eoc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}