{"id":2861,"date":"2018-10-03T09:21:25","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T13:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/?p=2861"},"modified":"2018-10-03T09:21:25","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T13:21:25","slug":"the-vanishing-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/?p=2861","title":{"rendered":"The Vanishing Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/do-you-still-wonder-at-the-bible-mmz73mem-af5d80532bfc56a325df4fddfea77db0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2862\" src=\"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/do-you-still-wonder-at-the-bible-mmz73mem-af5d80532bfc56a325df4fddfea77db0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/do-you-still-wonder-at-the-bible-mmz73mem-af5d80532bfc56a325df4fddfea77db0.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/do-you-still-wonder-at-the-bible-mmz73mem-af5d80532bfc56a325df4fddfea77db0-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/do-you-still-wonder-at-the-bible-mmz73mem-af5d80532bfc56a325df4fddfea77db0-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/do-you-still-wonder-at-the-bible-mmz73mem-af5d80532bfc56a325df4fddfea77db0-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/do-you-still-wonder-at-the-bible-mmz73mem-af5d80532bfc56a325df4fddfea77db0-676x380.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/a>&#8220;The Judeo-Christian heritage, which characteristically has been <em>word<\/em>-dependent, is contrasted with paganism, which typically has been <em>image<\/em>-dependent. &#8230; [in our day] the <em>image<\/em> has supplanted the <em>word<\/em> &#8230; A church cut from its word-based heritage and a nation stripped of word-based modes of learning do not have the rhetorical or mental resources to guard against despotism &#8230; our image-saturated culture is at risk of being preyed upon by a tyrant in waiting.&#8221; &#8211;Arthur W. Hunt III (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Vanishing-Word-Veneration-Imagery-Postmodern\/dp\/158134404X\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1538572752&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=the+vanishing+word\">The Vanishing Word<\/a>, p.26)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Judeo-Christian heritage, which characteristically has been word-dependent, is contrasted with paganism, which typically has been image-dependent. &#8230; [in our day] the image has supplanted the word &#8230; A church cut from its word-based heritage and a nation stripped of word-based modes of learning do not have the rhetorical or mental resources to guard against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bible","post-preview"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgYGxX-K9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2861"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2865,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2861\/revisions\/2865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jkitchen.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}