{"id":4464,"date":"2016-03-15T16:15:27","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T20:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/?p=4464"},"modified":"2016-03-15T16:15:27","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T20:15:27","slug":"fr-thomas-hopko-the-triumph-of-orthodoxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/fr-thomas-hopko-the-triumph-of-orthodoxy\/","title":{"rendered":"Fr. Thomas Hopko: The Triumph of Orthodoxy"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3260\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3260\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/triumph-orthodoxy-500x200.png\" alt=\"The Triumph of Orthodoxy\" width=\"500\" height=\"200\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3260\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3260\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Triumph of Orthodoxy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Icons are not optional devotional extras, but an integral part of Orthodox faith and devotion. They are held to be a necessary consequence of Christian faith in the incarnation of the Word of God, the Second Person of the Trinity, in Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n<p>You won&#8217;t find a more concise and helpful explanation of why Orthodox Christians keep and venerate icons.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/hopko-speaking-logo.png\" alt=\"hopko-speaking-logo\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-704\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen here:<\/strong><\/p>\n[audio:http:\/\/audio.ancientfaith.com\/hopko\/stt009sunoforth_pc.mp3]\n<p><em>Podcast courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ancientfaith.com\/podcasts\/hopko\/the_triumph_of_orthodoxy\">Ancient Faith Radio<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Icons are not optional devotional extras, but an integral part of Orthodox faith and devotion. They are held to be a necessary consequence of Christian faith in the incarnation of the Word of God, the Second Person of the Trinity, in Jesus Christ. You won&#8217;t find a more concise and helpful explanation of why Orthodox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-essays","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stpeterorthodoxchurch.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}