{"id":2389,"date":"2014-08-14T10:13:25","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T15:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=2389"},"modified":"2014-08-14T10:13:25","modified_gmt":"2014-08-14T15:13:25","slug":"a-post-on-the-protestant-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2014\/08\/14\/a-post-on-the-protestant-novel\/","title":{"rendered":"A post on The Protestant Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Old Life Theological Society posted a reaction piece by D.G. Hart titled <a href=\"http:\/\/oldlife.org\/2014\/08\/protestant-novel\/\">&#8220;The Protestant Novel?&#8221;<\/a> in which he considers &#8220;whether Protestantism has produced novelists the way that Roman Catholicism allegedly has.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To answer that question he turns to Wikipedia and writer David Lodge, who writes, &#8220;If there was ever such a species as the Protestant novelist . . . Mr. Updike may be its last surviving example.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hart concludes, &#8220;Protestants intuitively know (but often refuse to admit) that novels don&#8217;t need to be Christian, that the question of whether a novel is Christian is actually silly. Some of the worst novels have tried to be redemptive, while some of the best don&#8217;t make the slightest reference to religion, let alone sin and grace.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Old Life Theological Society posted a reaction piece by D.G. Hart titled &#8220;The Protestant Novel?&#8221; in which he considers &#8220;whether Protestantism has produced novelists the way that Roman Catholicism allegedly has.&#8221; To answer that question he turns to Wikipedia &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2014\/08\/14\/a-post-on-the-protestant-novel\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-person-singular"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2389"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2390,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2389\/revisions\/2390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}