{"id":168,"date":"2017-10-28T13:01:33","date_gmt":"2017-10-28T10:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/?p=168"},"modified":"2017-10-28T13:01:33","modified_gmt":"2017-10-28T10:01:33","slug":"the-early-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/168\/the-early-church\/","title":{"rendered":"The early church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greek and Greek-speaking Christians constituted the greater part of the early Church. &#8230; Jesus was aware that the Greeks who came to Him were men with a searching mind and a troubled spirit. Upon His confrontation with them, He exclaimed, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ellopos.net\/elpenor\/greek-texts\/new-testament\/john\/12.asp\">The hour has come for the son of man to be glorified<\/a>&#8220;&#8230; The Greeks found in the person of Christ the eternal Logos and the &#8220;unknown God&#8221; of their forefathers, while Christ discovered in them sincere followers and dedicated apostles of the New Kingdom. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>As T. R. Glover has put it: &#8220;The chief contribution of the Greek was his demand for this very thing \u2013 that Christianity must be universal&#8230; the Greek really secured the triumph of Jesus&#8230; Even the faults of the Greek have indirectly served the church.&#8221; &#8230; The Greek Orthodox Church of today is the people born out of the union between the incarnate Logos and Hellenism. \\ <a title=\"Greek Orthodoxy\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ellopos.net\/elpenor\/greek-orthodox-history.asp\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greek and Greek-speaking Christians constituted the greater part of the early Church. &#8230; Jesus was aware that the Greeks who came to Him were men with a searching mind and a troubled spirit. Upon His confrontation with them, He exclaimed, &#8220;The hour has come for the son of man to be glorified&#8220;&#8230; The Greeks found [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_disable_autopaging":false},"categories":[8,9,13,10],"tags":[166,98,370,5689,1101,314,408,361,99,53,1102],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-greece","category-europe","category-greek-history","category-orthodox-christianity","tag-christianity","tag-early-church","tag-greek-church","tag-greek-history","tag-greek-orthodox-church","tag-greek-orthodoxy","tag-hellenism","tag-history-of-christianity","tag-origins-of-christianity","tag-orthodoxy","tag-t-r-glover"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ellopos.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}