{"id":7762,"date":"2024-08-09T03:45:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-09T03:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=7762"},"modified":"2026-10-02T01:31:58","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T01:31:58","slug":"theological-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/?p=7762","title":{"rendered":"THEOLOGICAL RESEARCH"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In <i>The Divine Conspiracy<\/i>, Dallas Willard calls prayer &#8220;the method of genuine theological research, the method of understanding what and who God is.&#8221; (194)<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I like that. It&#8217;s a striking reframe on prayer.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And the learning about God and His ways strikes me as being an important facet of prayer.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But couldn&#8217;t the same be said about meditating on Scripture? That it&#8217;s theological research?<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And even more so?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In The Divine Conspiracy, Dallas Willard calls prayer &#8220;the method of genuine theological research, the method of understanding what and who God is.&#8221; (194) I like that. It&#8217;s a striking reframe on prayer. And the learning about God and His ways strikes me as being an important facet of prayer. But couldn&#8217;t the same be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7763,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7762\/revisions\/7763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevegrossblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}