{"id":138,"date":"2008-02-20T15:17:10","date_gmt":"2008-02-20T21:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/?p=138"},"modified":"2008-02-20T15:17:10","modified_gmt":"2008-02-20T21:17:10","slug":"a-thought-on-leaky-abstractions-and-theology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2008\/02\/20\/a-thought-on-leaky-abstractions-and-theology\/","title":{"rendered":"A thought on leaky abstractions and theology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wonder if the &#8220;simple&#8221; truths of Scripture are really just abstractions and they sometimes leak (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/articles\/LeakyAbstractions.html\">this<\/a>), which is why we need people who study and sometimes explain the complexities of theology, for the times when people&#8217;s lives don&#8217;t fit neatly into the abstractions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wonder if the &#8220;simple&#8221; truths of Scripture are really just abstractions and they sometimes leak (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/articles\/LeakyAbstractions.html\">this<\/a>), which is why we need people who study and sometimes explain the complexities of theology, for the times when people&#8217;s lives don&#8217;t fit neatly into the abstractions. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2008\/02\/20\/a-thought-on-leaky-abstractions-and-theology\/\">Continue reading <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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,25,33,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming","category-theology","category-thought","category-transferrable_concepts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}