{"id":5658,"date":"2022-08-07T12:13:11","date_gmt":"2022-08-07T17:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=5658"},"modified":"2022-08-07T12:13:13","modified_gmt":"2022-08-07T17:13:13","slug":"new-old-review-of-updikes-rogers-version-appears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2022\/08\/07\/new-old-review-of-updikes-rogers-version-appears\/","title":{"rendered":"New-old review of Updike&#8217;s Roger&#8217;s Version appears"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Cratudemn.com blog recently posted an unsigned, undated <a href=\"https:\/\/cratudemn.com\/book-review-john-updikes-version-of-roger\/\">&#8220;Book Review: John Updike&#8217;s Version of Roger.&#8221; <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This book is less an emotional exercise than an intellectual gambit, with the provability of the Almighty as its leitmotif. While to prove the existence of the Judeo-Christian God is certainly not a new sport, Updike chooses to play by significantly different rules than those that constrain the likes of St. Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Leibniz, Hume, Kant&#8221; and instead &#8220;launches his argumentative and theological rays against the backdrop of modern scientific thought and method, evoking evolution, the Big Bang, and the binary oddball of today&#8217;s supercomputers. Planck and Heisenberg collide with Kierkegaard and Karl Barth, resulting in an electrical charge that permeates Updike&#8217;s always literate and frequently erudite pages,&#8221; the author writes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cratudemn.com\/book-review-john-updikes-version-of-roger\/\">Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2022\/08\/Cratudemn-graphic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"307\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2022\/08\/Cratudemn-graphic.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5659\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2022\/08\/Cratudemn-graphic.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2022\/08\/Cratudemn-graphic-300x154.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2022\/08\/Cratudemn-graphic-500x256.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cratudemn.com blog recently posted an unsigned, undated &#8220;Book Review: John Updike&#8217;s Version of Roger.&#8221; &#8220;This book is less an emotional exercise than an intellectual gambit, with the provability of the Almighty as its leitmotif. While to prove the existence &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2022\/08\/07\/new-old-review-of-updikes-rogers-version-appears\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":818,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5658","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\/818"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5660,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5658\/revisions\/5660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}