{"id":7430,"date":"2010-02-09T19:31:55","date_gmt":"2010-02-10T00:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=7430"},"modified":"2010-02-09T19:31:55","modified_gmt":"2010-02-10T00:31:55","slug":"anglicanism-now-in-3d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/anglicanism-now-in-3d\/","title":{"rendered":"Anglicanism. Now in 3D!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rowan Williams, in his Presidential Address, postulates that our Anglican troubles are caused by seeing in only two dimensions; so, put on those polarised lenses, stare at the screen, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archbishopofcanterbury.org\/2752\" target=\"_blank\">prepare to be amazed<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Earlier I mentioned \u2018three-dimensionality\u2019.\u00a0 Seeing something in three dimensions is seeing that I can\u2019t see everything at once: what\u2019s in front of me is not just the surface I see in this particular moment.\u00a0 So seeing in three dimensions requires us to take time with what we see.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Until Rowan attempted to explain it, I thought I understood seeing in three dimensions; never mind, if Rowan <em>is seeing that I can\u2019t see everything at once<\/em> it\u2019s probably only because he forgot his 3D glasses. And, of course, <em>seeing in three dimensions requires us to take time with what we see <\/em>means we have to take time into consideration and see in four dimensions, which will require a tinfoil hat in addition to the 3D glasses\u00a0 &#8211; see?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rowan Williams, in his Presidential Address, postulates that our Anglican troubles are caused by seeing in only two dimensions; so, put on those polarised lenses, stare at the screen, and prepare to be amazed: Earlier I mentioned \u2018three-dimensionality\u2019.\u00a0 Seeing something &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/anglicanism-now-in-3d\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[277],"tags":[2241],"class_list":["post-7430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rowan-williams","tag-rowan-williams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}