{"id":272863,"date":"2026-08-26T22:52:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T22:52:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/272863\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T22:52:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T22:52:23","slug":"history-professors-new-book-presents-a-biography-of-st-peter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/272863\/","title":{"rendered":"History Professor&#8217;s New Book Presents a Biography of St. Peter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A biography of St. Peter, &#8220;Peter of Galilee: Shepherd of the Early Church,&#8221; authored by Robert W. Shaffern,\u00a0Ph.D.,\u00a0a professor in The University of Scranton History Department, has been <a href=\"https:\/\/angelicopress.com\/products\/peter-of-galilee-robert-w-shaffern?srsltid=AfmBOoq4Xkiu5zvBipDEnloyDryET15-VAtzePs1y8UrF0iGBlaI3lFU\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">published by Angelico Press<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>In this book, Dr. Shaffern places the saint within his familial, social and business networks, along with his leadership role among the Twelve Apostles.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with an interest in early Christian theology and history will certainly profit from reading this book, which is available at Angelico Press and other retail outlets.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A biography of St. Peter, &#8220;Peter of Galilee: Shepherd of the Early Church,&#8221; authored by Robert W. Shaffern,\u00a0Ph.D.,\u00a0a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[114801,114802,178,180,179,274],"class_list":["post-272863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-scranton","tag-history-department","tag-robert-w-shaffern","tag-scranton","tag-scranton-headlines","tag-scranton-news","tag-the-university-of-scranton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}