{"id":465,"date":"2007-11-27T02:55:22","date_gmt":"2007-11-26T21:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bridgetothestars.net\/news\/what-catholics-attacking-the-golden-compass-are-really-afraid-of\/"},"modified":"2007-11-27T02:56:13","modified_gmt":"2007-11-26T21:56:13","slug":"what-catholics-attacking-the-golden-compass-are-really-afraid-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/what-catholics-attacking-the-golden-compass-are-really-afraid-of\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;What Catholics attacking &#8216;The Golden Compass&#8217; are really afraid of&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donna Freitas, author of the new guide book <em>Killing the Imposter God: Philip Pullman&#8217;s Spiritual Imagination in His Dark Materials<\/em>, has written an article in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bostonglobe\/ideas\/articles\/2007\/11\/25\/god_in_the_dust\/\">Boston Globe<\/a> on the Catholic League and other evangelical group&#8217;s campaign against The Golden Compass.  In its defense, she says, &#8220;to reduce Pullman to these few juicy sound bites is to ignore the whole of a complex, exuberantly curious intellectual who has infused his writing with a complex, crisply rendered theology.&#8221;  Freitas sees the true, divine God in Dust, which permeates the story.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bostonglobe\/ideas\/articles\/2007\/11\/25\/god_in_the_dust\/\">Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Another article by Freitas appears in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/id\/72067\">Newsweek<\/a>, once again defending the &#8220;reluctant theologian.&#8221;  &#8220;Its telos or &#8220;end purpose,&#8221; highlights a vision of the Christian God and God&#8217;s relationship to this world &#8211; one that has long lingered in the rhetoric of Christian feminist and liberation theologians&#8230; their work has languished in the dark corners of academe and on the wrong side of Christian orthodoxy.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/id\/72067\">Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donna Freitas, author of the new guide book Killing the Imposter God: Philip Pullman&#8217;s Spiritual Imagination in His Dark Materials, has written an article in the Boston Globe on the Catholic League and other evangelical group&#8217;s campaign against The Golden &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/what-catholics-attacking-the-golden-compass-are-really-afraid-of\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-golden-compass-movie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}