{"id":24164,"date":"2008-12-09T13:42:59","date_gmt":"2008-12-09T17:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2008\/12\/william-placher-rip\/"},"modified":"2008-12-09T13:42:59","modified_gmt":"2008-12-09T17:42:59","slug":"william-placher-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2008\/12\/william-placher-rip\/","title":{"rendered":"William Placher, RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'\"><font color=\"#000000\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/WPlacher.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 20px 20px\" height=\"252\" alt=\"WPlacher.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/WPlacher-thumb-252x252.jpg\" width=\"252\" \/><\/a>On 30 November 2008, Theologian William C. Placher died. He was the LaFollette Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at Wabash College and a prolific writer. I never met Dr. Placher but reading his works I felt I knew him; Placher was a constant companion for countless scholars in theology.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><em>May his memory be eternal.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'\"><font color=\"#000000\"><em><\/em><\/font><\/span>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'\"><font color=\"#000000\">Some postings on Dr Placher:<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'\"><o:p><font color=\"#000000\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'\"><font color=\"#000000\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wabash.edu\/news\/displaystory.cfm?news_ID=6521\">Placher remembered <\/a><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'\"><o:p><font color=\"#000000\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'\"><font color=\"#000000\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wabash.edu\/news\/displaystory.cfm?news_ID=6499\">A legend lost <\/a><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font color=\"#000000\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 11.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia','serif'\"><\/span><\/font>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><font color=\"#000000\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 11.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Georgia','serif'\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.firstthings.com\/onthesquare\/?p=1243\">William Placher 1948-2008 <\/a><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 30 November 2008, Theologian William C. Placher died. He was the LaFollette Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at Wabash College and a prolific writer. I never met Dr. Placher but reading his works I felt I knew him; Placher was a constant companion for countless scholars in theology. &nbsp; May his memory be eternal. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2008\/12\/william-placher-rip\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">William Placher, RIP<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,6],"tags":[1855,1856],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24164"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}