{"id":122,"date":"2019-12-19T11:54:06","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T17:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/aculibraryacquisitions\/?p=122"},"modified":"2020-01-07T11:02:23","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T17:02:23","slug":"competitions-as-a-christian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/aculibraryacquisitions\/2019\/12\/19\/competitions-as-a-christian\/","title":{"rendered":"Competitions as a Christian"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/p>\n

Many people are passionate about sports, yet few give thought to its role and importance in their lives, let alone its relationship to Christian faith. This book examines the potential of sports and challenges readers to consider how it relates to their deepest passions, behaviours, and actions while providing newcomers to the field with a framework to help consider the connection between sports participation and faith-based values. Featuring academic writers from a range of disciplinary fields, including philosophy, theology, sports studies and education, Sport and Christianity: Practices for the Twenty-First Century<\/em> sheds insight into the meaning of sports for Christians as participants and as practitioners.<\/p>\n

Call Number: 796.01 S764<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many people are passionate about sports, yet few give thought to its role and importance in their lives, let alone its relationship to Christian faith. This book examines the potential of sports and challenges readers to consider how it relates … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15300,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1466],"tags":[284,1728,70,819],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biblical-studies","tag-christian","tag-christianity","tag-competitions","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/aculibraryacquisitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/aculibraryacquisitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/aculibraryacquisitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/aculibraryacquisitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15300"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/aculibraryacquisitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/aculibraryacquisitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/aculibraryacquisitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions\/124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/aculibraryacquisitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/aculibraryacquisitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/aculibraryacquisitions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}