{"id":5245,"date":"2017-11-16T00:02:18","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T04:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=5245"},"modified":"2017-11-16T00:07:50","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T04:07:50","slug":"close-and-caring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=5245","title":{"rendered":"Close and Caring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We will begin to explore the grand mystery of <em>how<\/em> a <em>kenotic, cruciform<\/em> and Christlike God can reign &#8212; can be present, active and &#8216;sovereign&#8217; &#8212; in the world, when he is neither <em>coercive<\/em> nor <em>controlling<\/em>, but nevertheless infinitely <em>close<\/em> and <em>caring.<\/em>  We&#8217;ll notice together how such a God rules, saves and serves by grounding and filling all that is with the power of love &#8212; a divine love with a particular content defined as <em>consent<\/em> and <em>participation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Bradley Jersak, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/more_christlike_god.html\">A More Christlike God<\/a><\/em>, p. 121<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We will begin to explore the grand mystery of how a kenotic, cruciform and Christlike God can reign &#8212; can be present, active and &#8216;sovereign&#8217; &#8212; in the world, when he is neither coercive nor controlling, but nevertheless infinitely close and caring. We&#8217;ll notice together how such a God rules, saves and serves by grounding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-god","category-love"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}