{"id":1581,"date":"2007-08-27T22:54:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-27T22:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/debating_whether_medieval_priests_could_marry_in_the_letters_of_the_london_\/"},"modified":"2007-08-27T22:54:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-27T22:54:00","slug":"debating_whether_medieval_priests_could_marry_in_the_letters_of_the_london_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=1581","title":{"rendered":"Debating Whether medieval priests could marry in the letters of the London Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/comment\/debate\/letters\/article2274009.ece\">In response to this letter<\/a>, Elizabeth Longrigg of Oxford writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sir, If S. M. Bowden\u2019s letter (August 17) is accurate, how is it that the Anglo-Saxon cleric Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham, Oxfordshire, from 1005, and writing in the late 10th and early 11th centuries, speaks in the preface to his translation of Genesis about priests complaining that they are forbidden to marry?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey often speak of Peter, [asking] why they are not permitted to have a wife as Peter the apostle had, and they do not want to hear or to know that . . .\u201d\u009d and, when Peter was chosen to follow Christ, \u201cthen he immediately gave up his wife, and all the twelve apostles, those who had wives, gave up both wife and possessions and followed Christ in the new law and the purity which he himself then established.\u201d\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/comment\/debate\/letters\/article2288564.ece\">Check out the discussion also<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to this letter, Elizabeth Longrigg of Oxford writes: Sir, If S. M. Bowden\u2019s letter (August 17) is accurate, how is it that the Anglo-Saxon cleric Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham, Oxfordshire, from 1005, and writing in the late 10th<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=1581\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}