{"id":133,"date":"2012-03-07T23:44:10","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T05:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/?p=133"},"modified":"2012-03-08T02:46:34","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T08:46:34","slug":"eloquent-nonsense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/2012\/03\/07\/eloquent-nonsense\/","title":{"rendered":"Eloquent Nonsense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We must beware of the man who abounds in eloquent nonsense, and so much the more if the hearer is pleased with what is not worth listening to, and thinks that because the speaker is eloquent what he says must be true.&#8221; Augustine of Hippo, <em>On Christian Doctrine, <\/em>IV. 5. 7.<\/p>\n<p>In this section Augustine of Hippo, the famous Christian theologian from late antiquity, identifies\u00a0the characteristics of a good teacher as\u00a0eloquence\u00a0and wisdom.\u00a0 Here he warns against those who speak eloquently but without true wisdom.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We must beware of the man who abounds in eloquent nonsense, and so much the more if the hearer is pleased with what is not worth listening to, and thinks that because the speaker is eloquent what he says must &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/2012\/03\/07\/eloquent-nonsense\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,26,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-augustine-of-hippo","category-eloquence","category-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions\/159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.cune.edu\/matthewphillips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}