{"id":3611,"date":"2014-03-21T00:00:45","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T05:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=3611"},"modified":"2016-09-05T15:27:12","modified_gmt":"2016-09-05T20:27:12","slug":"american-christians-like-ben-franklin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=3611","title":{"rendered":"AMERICAN CHRISTIANS ARE MORE LIKE BEN FRANKLIN THAN JONATHAN EDWARDS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"irc_mi\" class=\"irc_mut\" style=\"margin-top: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/img2.wikia.nocookie.net\/__cb20130831194030\/epicrapbattlesofhistory\/images\/d\/d6\/Benfranklin-1-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"351\" height=\"395\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cI think ironically American evangelicals often seem to be more followers of Benjamin Franklin than they are of Jonathan Edwards.\u00a0 They [evangelicals] admire practicality, friendliness, moralisms, easy formulas, and quantifiable results.\u00a0 And while these Franklin-esque traits aren\u2019t all bad they sometimes contribute to evangelical superficiality.\u00a0 And we all know they are the equivalent of spiritual purveyors of junk food that have long capitalized on evangelicalisms\u2019 market-driven economy.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Marsden went on to say he had gone by a church sign the previous year during Fourth of July which proclaimed, \u201cThe last four letters in American are I can.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>George Marsden, \u201cThe Legacy of Jonathan Edwards,\u201d Beeson Divinity School, Nov. 12, 2004.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>HT to Thomas Kidd (aka Tommy) for bringing this terrific lecture to my attention.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beesondivinity.com\/podcast#!\/swx\/pp\/media_archives\/99668\/episode\/47187\">http:\/\/www.beesondivinity.com\/podcast#!\/swx\/pp\/media_archives\/99668\/episode\/47187<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI think ironically American evangelicals often seem to be more followers of Benjamin Franklin than they are of Jonathan Edwards.\u00a0 They [evangelicals] admire practicality, friendliness, moralisms, easy formulas, and quantifiable results.\u00a0 And while these Franklin-esque traits aren\u2019t all bad they sometimes contribute to evangelical superficiality.\u00a0 And we all know they are the equivalent of spiritual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-history","category-christianity"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3611"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6448,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3611\/revisions\/6448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}