{"id":613,"date":"2016-03-07T10:00:44","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T15:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/?p=613"},"modified":"2016-03-07T02:20:39","modified_gmt":"2016-03-07T07:20:39","slug":"why-the-wood-of-the-cross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/why-the-wood-of-the-cross\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the wood of the Cross?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/\">First Things<\/a>, Peter Leithart discusses why, according to the Angelic Doctor, it was fitting for Christ to die <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/blogs\/leithart\/2016\/02\/on-the-wood\">on a wooden cross<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As we enter into the second half of Lent, let us reflect on the crucifixion.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Why did Jesus die on a cross? Thomas asks (<em>ST <\/em>III, 46, 4). He gives a variety of answers: Adam sinned at a tree, so Jesus saves at a tree; Jesus suffered in the air to purify the atmosphere; Jesus was elevated in death to show us the way of ascent; the four-cornered cross indicates that salvation spreads to the four corners of the earth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at First Things, Peter Leithart discusses why, according to the Angelic Doctor, it was fitting for Christ to die on a wooden cross. As we enter into the second half of Lent, let us reflect on the crucifixion. Why did Jesus die on a cross? Thomas asks (ST III, 46, 4). He gives a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catholic"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6hA2G-9T","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":614,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions\/614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewklusman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}