{"id":156,"date":"2015-03-23T01:58:55","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T01:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/?p=156"},"modified":"2015-03-23T01:58:55","modified_gmt":"2015-03-23T01:58:55","slug":"read-the-fathers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/2015\/03\/23\/read-the-fathers\/","title":{"rendered":"“Read The Fathers”"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have discovered\u00a0a website that offers an intellectual discipline for those interested in early church writings. \u00a0They have put together\u00a0a plan of readings, which\u00a0they describe as follows:<\/p>\n

By reading seven pages a day for seven years, you can study a vast library of theology, history, liturgy, apologetics, biblical commentary, and devotion written in the first seven centuries of the Christian church. We provide a schedule of readings, the texts in English translation, and\u2014most important\u2014a community to discuss what you\u2019re learning. Laypeople, clergy, seminarians, students, and Christians of all denominations will benefit from joining our community to read the church fathers.<\/em><\/p>\n

They are in year 3 of this project, and have covered works\u00a0written by such luminaries as Origen, Hippolytus, Tertullian, Clement of Alexandria, Irenaeus, and Justin Martyr.<\/p>\n

You can find more at http:\/\/readthefathers.org\/<\/a><\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have discovered\u00a0a website that offers an intellectual discipline for those interested in early church writings. \u00a0They have put together\u00a0a plan of readings, which\u00a0they describe as follows: By reading seven pages a day for seven years, you can study a vast library of theology, history, liturgy, apologetics, biblical commentary, and devotion written in the first […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[94,32],"tags":[95,96],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-early-church","category-history","tag-read-the-fathers","tag-early-church"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions\/164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/theundergroundchurch.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}