{"id":1711,"date":"2026-01-16T14:53:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T14:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/?p=1711"},"modified":"2026-01-16T14:54:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T14:54:32","slug":"mens-book-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/2026\/01\/16\/mens-book-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Men&#8217;s Book Club"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1944967249\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"381\" height=\"582\" src=\"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1712\" srcset=\"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image.png 381w, https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/image-196x300.png 196w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 381px) 100vw, 381px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Our Men&#8217;s group finished Fr Andrews Stephen&#8217;s book on St Ignatius of Antioch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ignatius of Antioch<\/strong>\u00a0(\/\u026a\u0261\u02c8ne\u026a\u0283\u0259s\/;\u00a0Ancient Greek:\u00a0\u1f38\u03b3\u03bd\u03ac\u03c4\u03b9\u03bf\u03c2 \u1f08\u03bd\u03c4\u03b9\u03bf\u03c7\u03b5\u03af\u03b1\u03c2,\u00a0<small>romanized:\u00a0<\/small><em>Ign\u00e1tios Antiokhe\u00edas<\/em>; died\u00a0c.\u00a0108\/140),\u00a0also known as\u00a0<strong>Ignatius Theophorus<\/strong>\u00a0(\u1f38\u03b3\u03bd\u03ac\u03c4\u03b9\u03bf\u03c2 \u1f41 \u0398\u03b5\u03bf\u03c6\u03cc\u03c1\u03bf\u03c2,\u00a0<em>Ign\u00e1tios ho Theoph\u00f3ros<\/em>,\u00a0&#8216;the God-bearing&#8217;), was an early Christian writer and\u00a0Patriarch of Antioch. While en route to\u00a0Rome, where he met his\u00a0martyrdom, Ignatius wrote a series of letters. This correspondence forms a central part of a later collection of works by the\u00a0Apostolic Fathers. He is considered one of the three most important of these, together with\u00a0Clement of Rome\u00a0and\u00a0Polycarp.<br><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ignatius_of_Antioch\">Ignatius of Antioch &#8211; Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The book has five chapters and focuses on Ignatius&#8217; understanding of the role of the Bishop in the early church and the Eucharist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Men&#8217;s group finished Fr Andrews Stephen&#8217;s book on St Ignatius of Antioch. Ignatius of Antioch\u00a0(\/\u026a\u0261\u02c8ne\u026a\u0283\u0259s\/;\u00a0Ancient Greek:\u00a0\u1f38\u03b3\u03bd\u03ac\u03c4\u03b9\u03bf\u03c2 \u1f08\u03bd\u03c4\u03b9\u03bf\u03c7\u03b5\u03af\u03b1\u03c2,\u00a0romanized:\u00a0Ign\u00e1tios Antiokhe\u00edas; died\u00a0c.\u00a0108\/140),\u00a0also known as\u00a0Ignatius Theophorus\u00a0(\u1f38\u03b3\u03bd\u03ac\u03c4\u03b9\u03bf\u03c2 \u1f41 \u0398\u03b5\u03bf\u03c6\u03cc\u03c1\u03bf\u03c2,\u00a0Ign\u00e1tios ho Theoph\u00f3ros,\u00a0&#8216;the God-bearing&#8217;), was an early Christian writer and\u00a0Patriarch of Antioch. While en route to\u00a0Rome, where he met his\u00a0martyrdom, Ignatius wrote a series of letters. This correspondence forms a central [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,5,12,6,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apostolic-succession","category-bible","category-eoc","category-episkopate","category-history","category-saints"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1711"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1714,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711\/revisions\/1714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}