{"id":1474,"date":"2010-07-02T11:07:21","date_gmt":"2010-07-02T18:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ispeculate.wpmudev.host\/main\/?p=1474"},"modified":"2010-07-02T11:07:21","modified_gmt":"2010-07-02T18:07:21","slug":"god-and-the-digestive-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/2010\/07\/02\/god-and-the-digestive-system\/","title":{"rendered":"God and the Digestive System"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Luther suffered from lifelong constipation and urine retention. Thus, &#8220;In this creative moment the tension of nights and days of meditation found release throughout his being &#8211; and nobody who has read Luther&#8217;s private remarks can doubt that his total being always included his bowels.&#8221; Thus, for Erikson, there is something profoundly physiological in Luther&#8217;s new understanding of God as one who is &#8220;no longer lurking in the periphery of space and time,&#8221; but is rather &#8220;moving from inside&#8221; of us, and is thus, in a very real sense, &#8220;what works in us.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=G1amk8WHwQgC&amp;lpg=PA82&amp;ots=jx1lctKmNe&amp;dq=%22The%20soul%20as%20the%20coreness%20of%20the%20self%22&amp;pg=PA82#v=onepage&amp;q=%22The%20soul%20as%20the%20coreness%20of%20the%20self%22&amp;f=false\">&#8220;The Soul as the &#8216;Coreness&#8217; of the Self&#8221; by Donald Capps.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luther suffered from lifelong constipation and urine retention. Thus, &#8220;In this creative moment the tension of nights and days of meditation found release throughout his being &#8211; and nobody who has read Luther&#8217;s private remarks can doubt that his total being always included his bowels.&#8221; Thus, for Erikson, there is something profoundly physiological in Luther&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/2010\/07\/02\/god-and-the-digestive-system\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">God and the Digestive System<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[37,39,99,147,154],"class_list":["post-1474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","tag-counseling","tag-crap","tag-listening","tag-storytelling","tag-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ispeculate.net\/writings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}