{"id":160,"date":"2008-10-27T01:57:02","date_gmt":"2008-10-26T23:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bogvaerker.dk\/wordpress\/?p=160"},"modified":"2008-10-27T01:58:19","modified_gmt":"2008-10-26T23:58:19","slug":"open-letter-to-the-archbishop-of-canterbury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bogvaerker.dk\/wordpress\/?p=160","title":{"rendered":"An Open Letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;I would like very much to see a dialogue developing with Islam about this question of what a just, a reasonable rate of interest might look like in the light of a religious ethic but this is work, reflection, very much in its infancy to put it mildly.&#8221;<\/em>1 <\/p>\n<p>Dear Dr Williams,<\/p>\n<p>We write to you from the city of Norwich in response to your desire to see a dialogue developing with Islam about the question of interest rates. However, before focusing our attention on the treacherous subject of usury, our position on which you might understand from previous communications2, we must first draw your attention to certain matters pertaining to the nature and purpose of dialogue itself.<br \/>\n&#8212;-<br \/>\n1 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/3204026\/Archbishop-of-Canterbury-Greed-has-caused-global-financial-crisis.html\">Archbishop of Canterbury: Greed has caused global financial crisis<\/a>, By Martin Beckford, Religious Affairs Correspondent, 15 Oct 2008<\/p>\n<p>2 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.muslimsofnorwich.org.uk\/?p=176\">Crisis! What Crisis?<\/a><br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a8<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.muslimsofnorwich.org.uk\/?p=180\">Read the full letter at the Muslims of Norwich web-site<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I would like very much to see a dialogue developing with Islam about this question of what a just, a reasonable rate of interest might look like in the light of a religious ethic but this is work, reflection, very much in its infancy to put it mildly.&#8221;1 Dear Dr Williams, We write to you &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bogvaerker.dk\/wordpress\/?p=160\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;An Open Letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogroll","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bogvaerker.dk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bogvaerker.dk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bogvaerker.dk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bogvaerker.dk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bogvaerker.dk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bogvaerker.dk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163,"href":"http:\/\/www.bogvaerker.dk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions\/163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bogvaerker.dk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bogvaerker.dk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bogvaerker.dk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}