{"id":1963,"date":"2005-09-26T01:01:50","date_gmt":"2005-09-26T01:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2005\/09\/dense-and-denser.html"},"modified":"2005-09-26T01:01:50","modified_gmt":"2005-09-26T01:01:50","slug":"dense-and-denser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2005\/09\/dense-and-denser.html","title":{"rendered":"Dense and Denser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the N.T. Wright thread below, someone question my call on not calling Wright&#8217;s academic works &quot;dense.&quot; (And he does, as the reader points out, have quite a few works for the popular audience. His &quot;&#8230;..for Everyone&quot; (fill in name of Gospel) books are excellent beginning Scripture study). Let me explain. It&#8217;s not&nbsp; that I&#8217;m that smart, because long-time readers know I&#8217;m not. No, it&#8217;s just that when I think of dense academic works, my mind drifts back over twenty years, when I, as an eager Young Catholic read Schillebeeckx. Avidly. Read both <em>Jesus <\/em>and <em>Christ. <\/em>I experienced them as dense as I was reading them, and realized, when I finished both, that I had absolutely no recollection of anything he had said except for his explaining-away of the Resurrection. Now, there&#8217;s dense for you. There&#8217;s really no comparison. Wright is thorough and detailed, but his writing is very clear, he constantly summarizes and reminds you where you&#8217;ve been and where you&#8217;re headed. As I said, give it a good long while if you&#8217;re going to commit to the longer works, but they are by no means inaccessible to non-academics.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the N.T. Wright thread below, someone question my call on not calling Wright&#8217;s academic works &quot;dense.&quot; (And he does, as the reader points out, have quite a few works for the popular audience. His &quot;&#8230;..for Everyone&quot; (fill in name of Gospel) books are excellent beginning Scripture study). Let me explain. It&#8217;s not&nbsp; that I&#8217;m&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Dense and Denser - Via Media<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2005\/09\/dense-and-denser.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dense and Denser - Via Media\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In the N.T. 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