{"id":165,"date":"2010-08-19T19:41:21","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T18:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/?p=165"},"modified":"2010-08-19T19:42:30","modified_gmt":"2010-08-19T18:42:30","slug":"j-e-mcgoldrick-john-calvin-and-the-missionary-mandate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/j-e-mcgoldrick-john-calvin-and-the-missionary-mandate\/","title":{"rendered":"J E McGoldrick: John Calvin and the Missionary Mandate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The current issue of the Banner of Truth Magazine (August\/September 2010) has a very interesting article entitled: <em>John Calvin and the Missionary Mandate.<\/em> It is a very interesting read, and dispels any misconceived ideas people have about the Reformers view on mission.<\/p>\n<p>He first tackles the critics of Calvin, showing that their negative opinion on Calvin and the Reformers is often based on prejudice rather than facts. He then demonstrates that Calvin had a concern for the losts, wherever they are. Finally, he gives some historical examples showing that Calvin and his followers had a concern for sending preachers to the lost. If you receive the Banner of Truth Magazine, it is worth reading. If you don&#8217;t, go out and buy it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The current issue of the Banner of Truth Magazine (August\/September 2010) has a very interesting article entitled: John Calvin and the Missionary Mandate. It is a very interesting read, and dispels any misconceived ideas people have about the Reformers view on mission. He first tackles the critics of Calvin, showing that their negative opinion on &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/j-e-mcgoldrick-john-calvin-and-the-missionary-mandate\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;J E McGoldrick: John Calvin and the Missionary Mandate&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.erdurand.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}