{"id":1508,"date":"2010-09-13T18:30:46","date_gmt":"2010-09-13T22:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=1508"},"modified":"2013-06-17T16:34:52","modified_gmt":"2013-06-17T20:34:52","slug":"augustine-the-preacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=1508","title":{"rendered":"Augustine the Preacher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/augustine.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1509\" title=\"augustine\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/augustine-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/augustine-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/augustine.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>In the recent translation of Augustine&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1565482891?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=thechildrshou-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1565482891\">Homilies on the First Letter of John<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"egatgnsimdguhfetnfnf\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=thechildrshou-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=1565482891\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/em>,<em> <\/em>Boniface Ramsey in his introduction describes Augustine&#8217;s sermons in this way:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;&#8230;they are marvelous examples of the easy interaction that Augustine enjoyed with his congregation; they demonstrate his ability to adapt to the moment, to show how scripture spoke to contemporary issues, to present often-difficult material that he had mastered to his listeners in a way that they could understand, and to temper the exegetical with the spiritual.&#8221;\u009d (15-16)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is a good model for preaching. May we imitate it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the recent translation of Augustine&#8217;s Homilies on the First Letter of John, Boniface Ramsey in his introduction describes Augustine&#8217;s sermons in this way: &#8220;&#8230;they are marvelous examples of the easy interaction that Augustine enjoyed with his congregation; they demonstrate his ability to adapt to the moment, to show how scripture spoke to contemporary issues, &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/?p=1508\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Augustine the Preacher&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[278,120,51],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1508"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2758,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1508\/revisions\/2758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rayvanneste.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}