{"id":3758,"date":"2020-11-07T05:20:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-07T05:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lordalderdice.com\/?p=3758"},"modified":"2024-01-08T05:24:19","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T05:24:19","slug":"the-didache","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lordalderdice.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/07\/the-didache\/","title":{"rendered":"The Didache"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"3758\" class=\"elementor elementor-3758\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1f51f6f5 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"1f51f6f5\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-71bd1dde\" data-id=\"71bd1dde\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2ceed9a7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2ceed9a7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/22450235-the-didache\">The Didache: The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles<\/a>.<br \/><br \/>This very short manual of what a significant body of early Christians believed about their faith is of enormous importance, not least because it gives a real insight into their priorities in those early times. The Didache is the oldest extant written catechism, probably from the 1st century. It was lost for centuries until a Greek manuscript was rediscovered in 1873 in Istanbul by Philotheos Bryennios, Metropolitan of Nicomedia, in the Codex Hierosolymitanus. I came to it in through James Heron\u2019s \u2018Evolution of Latin Christianity\u2019 and on reading (and re-reading) the Didache it seemed to me that such a huge amount of what happened afterwards was at best a distraction and at worst wholly misleading. Unusually for me, I will not say more. This slim volume is so short and so important that you would be best to get and read it for yourself.<br \/><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/list\/8994856-john\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This very short manual of what a significant body of early Christians believed about their faith is of enormous importance, not least because it gives a real insight into their priorities in those early times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3760,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3758","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-faith-and-religion"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lordalderdice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lordalderdice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lordalderdice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lordalderdice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lordalderdice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3758"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lordalderdice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3763,"href":"https:\/\/lordalderdice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3758\/revisions\/3763"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lordalderdice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lordalderdice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lordalderdice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lordalderdice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}