Saint John Chrysostom: His Life and Times
Overview
Known for his eloquent preaching and public speaking, John Chrysostom was the archbishop of Constantinople and an influential early Church Father. He is recognized as a saint in the Orthodox and Catholic Churches and is one of the Three Holy Hierarchs along with Basil the Great and Gregory Nazianzus. Given to extreme asceticism, he lived as a hermit for two years before poor health forced him to return to Antioch, where he was ordained as a deacon—and later a priest—of the church at Antioch. His insightful expositions and discourses on the Bible made him a popular orator in the Church, and he was appointed archbishop of Constantinople in 397.
This volume contains William Richard Wood Stephens historical biographical volume, Saint John Chrysostom: His Life and Times, explaining the cultural layout of the church and the Roman Empire in the fourth century.
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- Captures different angles of the life of the early Church’s greatest preacher
- Includes insights into early church history and theology
- Provides ancient examples of effective preaching
Top Highlights
“But the sincere and ardent piety of many amongst the women kept alive in many a home the flame of Christian faith which would otherwise have been smothered. The Emperor Julian imagined that his efforts to resuscitate Paganism would have been successful in Antioch but for the strenuous opposition of the Christian women.” (Page 11)
“Athanasius, Basil, the Gregories, Ambrose, Jerome, Augustine, and Chrysostom” (Pages 6–7)
“Paganism. In the great Eastern cities of the Empire, especially Alexandria, Antioch, Constantinople, the mass of the so-called Christian population was largely infected by the dominant vices—inordinate luxury, sensuality, selfish avarice, and display.” (Page 11)
“that holy sacrament was almost, if not altogether, unpardonable—at least fraught with the most tremendous peril” (Page 16)
“birth occurred not later than the year a.d. 347, and not earlier than the year a.d. 345” (Page 9)
- Title: Saint John Chrysostom: His Life and Times
- Author: W. R. W. Stephens
- Edition: Third Edition
- Publisher: John Murray
- Print Publication Date: 1883
- Logos Release Date: 2014
- Pages: 474
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: John Chrysostom, Saint, -407; Church and state in the Byzantine Empire; Byzantine Empire › Church history
- Resource ID: LLS:SNTJHNCHRYSTOMHSLF
- Resource Type: text.monograph.biography
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T20:54:13Z