{"id":76,"date":"2011-04-20T08:22:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T15:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnworsley.name\/?page_id=76"},"modified":"2011-04-21T08:19:51","modified_gmt":"2011-04-21T15:19:51","slug":"ektheize","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/johnworsley.name\/?page_id=76","title":{"rendered":"Ektheize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(ECK-thee-eyes)  A verb, meaning to incorporate into a religion, to make a matter of religion.  Derived from the Greek word <span style=\"font-family:Symbol, Arial, sans-serif\">\u1f10\u03ba\u03b8\u03b5\u03b9\u03ac\u03b6\u03c9<\/span>, meaning \u201cto make a god of, regard as supernatural.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>Ektheizing is different from deifying: whereas deifying makes something or someone into a god, and therefore into the central focus, ektheizing adds something to an existing corpus of beliefs.  Many modern Christians have ektheized prosperity, believing that God wants material prosperity for all of us and we have simply to claim it.  The phrase \u201ccleanliness is next to godliness\u201d is ektheizory, as it gives cleanliness a religious importance. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(ECK-thee-eyes) A verb, meaning to incorporate into a religion, to make a matter of religion. Derived from the Greek word \u1f10\u03ba\u03b8\u03b5\u03b9\u03ac\u03b6\u03c9, meaning \u201cto make a god of, regard as supernatural.\u201d Ektheizing is different from deifying: whereas deifying makes something or someone into a god, and therefore into the central focus, ektheizing adds something to an&hellip;<\/p>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/johnworsley.name\/?page_id=76\" title=\"Ektheize\" class=\"entry-more-link\"><span>Read More<\/span> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ektheize<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":47,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["entry","author-me","post-76","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnworsley.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnworsley.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnworsley.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnworsley.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnworsley.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/johnworsley.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83,"href":"http:\/\/johnworsley.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/76\/revisions\/83"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnworsley.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnworsley.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}