{"id":5309,"date":"2019-09-30T03:47:25","date_gmt":"2019-09-30T03:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/churchedge.com\/illustrations\/index.php\/2019\/09\/30\/the-impact-of-monasticism\/"},"modified":"2019-09-30T03:47:25","modified_gmt":"2019-09-30T03:47:25","slug":"the-impact-of-monasticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/the-impact-of-monasticism\/","title":{"rendered":"The Impact of Monasticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monasticism had transformed the humble work of discipleship into the meritorious activity of the saints, and the renunciation of discipleship into the flagrant spiritual self-assertion of the &#8216;religious.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>________<\/p>\n<p>Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 1937.   The Cost of Discipleship , Tochstone Books (1959 edition), p 47<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monasticism had transformed the humble work of discipleship into the meritorious activity of the saints, and the renunciation of discipleship into the flagrant spiritual self-assertion of the &#8216;religious.&#8217; ________ Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 1937. The Cost of Discipleship , Tochstone Books (1959 edition), p 47<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1873,2438,2471,1463],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5309"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.churchedge.com\/illustrations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}