{"id":723,"date":"2009-01-07T08:39:50","date_gmt":"2009-01-07T15:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tgdarkly.com\/blog\/?p=723"},"modified":"2009-01-07T08:39:50","modified_gmt":"2009-01-07T15:39:50","slug":"women-and-the-early-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/2009\/01\/07\/women-and-the-early-church\/","title":{"rendered":"Women and the Early Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In our first <a href=\"http:\/\/biblical.edu\/images\/equip\/PDFs\/2009Wintersyllabi\/TH531AW-Thomas2.pdf\">World Christian History<\/a> lecture, <a href=\"http:\/\/biblical.edu\/pages\/discover\/faculty-directory.htm\">Prof. Thomas<\/a> mentioned the importance of women in the early church.\u00a0 No, this wasn&#8217;t revisionist neo-gnostic hooey &#8212; it was simply the role that widows and other women played in showing hospitality and spreading the gospel.\u00a0 This made me think of my mom.\u00a0 My mom is the paradigm of the &#8220;older woman&#8221; in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?book_id=63&amp;chapter=2&amp;version=31\">Titus 2<\/a>, who is able to teach younger people and set a good example.\u00a0 She tirelessly teaches Bible study groups with other women, and many have come to Christ or been deepened in the faith by her mentoring.\u00a0 She&#8217;ll stand with those first and second century women some day as true heroes of the faith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our first World Christian History lecture, Prof. Thomas mentioned the importance of women in the early church.\u00a0 No, this wasn&#8217;t revisionist neo-gnostic hooey &#8212; it was simply the role that widows and other women played in showing hospitality and spreading the gospel.\u00a0 This made me think of my mom.\u00a0 My mom is the paradigm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[36,19,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biblical-seminary","category-historical-theology","category-spirituality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p824rZ-bF","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}