John Chrysostom as Apologist

Series: Analecta Vlatadon, No. 50. In English. Hard cover, 24 cm, 300 pp.

CONTENTS:

APOLOGETICS DEFINED - EARLY CHRISTIAN APOLOGETICS - APOLOGETICS WITHIN THE THEOLOGICAL SYSTEM OF JOHN CHRYSOSTOM - THEOLOGY AS UNDERSTOOD BY CHRYSOSTOM. CHRYSTOSTOM'S CONSEPT OF APOLOGETICS. THE INVINCIBILITY OF TRUTH; CONDESCENSION. THE TWO PARTS OF APOLOGETICS - CHOISE OF WORKS TO BE STUDIED - THE PROLIFIC WRITINGS OF CHRYSOSTOM. RELEVANCE AND MATERIALITY OF THE WORKS CHOSEN - METHOD - THE INCOMPREHENSIBILITY OF GOD - HISTORICAL BACKGROUND - THE EUNOMIAN POSITION ON THE KNOWABILITY OF GOD. THE CHRISTIAN TRADITION ON THE INCOMPREHENSIBILITY OF GOD - CHRYSOSTOM'S HOMILIES DE INCOMPREHENSIBILI - THE ANOMOEANS AS A HERESY - METHOD & CONTENT OF CHRYSOSTOM'S APOLOGETIC - THE ESCHATOLOGICAL ARGUMENT - THE LIMIT OF HUMAN KNOWLEGDE - THE CONCEPT OF MEASURE - GOD'S ATTRIBUTES ARE INCOMPREHENSIBLE TO MEN - THE IMPIETY OF INVESTIGATING GOD - PERIERGIA: BACKGROUND OF THE ACCUSATION - GOD IS INCOMPREHENSIBLE TO THE HEAVENLY POWERS - GOD IS COMPREHENDED ONLY BY THE SON AND THE SPIRIT, OR BY HIMSELF - IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO NAME GOD'S ESSENCE - AD EOS QUI SCANDALIZATI SUNT OB ADVERSITATES - THE NOTION OF SCANDAL IN OTHER WORKS OF CHRYSOSTOM - THE NOTION OF SCANDAL IN AD EOS QUI SCANDALIZATI SUNT - STRUCTURE

THE CHRISTIAN LIFE: GENERAL INTRODUCTION: JOHN CHRYSOSTOM AND MONASTICISM - THE SURROUNDING ENVIRONMENT: MONASTICISM IN ANTIOCH - THE CHURCH AT ANTIOCH - THE MONASTIC EXPERIENCE OF JOHN CHRYSOSTOM - WRITINGS OF JOHN CHRYSOSTOM ON MONASTICISM AND RELATED TOPICS - ADVERSUS OPPUGNATORES VITAE MONASTICAE: THE BACKGROUND - ANTIOCHENE SOCIETY IN THE 4th CENTURY - LIBANIUS - CHRISTIAN ARISTOCRACY, INCLUDING CURIALES - THE PROBLEM OF PEDERASTY - IDENTITY OF THE OPPONENTS OF THE MONKS - DATE OF OPPUGNATORES - OCCASION AND PURPOSE OF OPPUGNATORES - LITERARY GENRE OF OPPUGNATORES: APOLOGETIC TREATISE - MEDICAL IMAGERY (THEME OF REMEDY) - THEME OF THEOMACHOS - ESCHATOLOGICAL CONCLUSIONS - APOLOGETIC METHOD - USE OF REASON - FORM OF THE AGON - ORIGIN - USE IN OPPUGNATORES -PHENOMENON OF DOUBLE TREATMENT - LOGOS ADDRESSED TO A PAGAN FATHER (= OPP. II) - LOGOS ADDRESSED TO A BELIEVING FATHER (= OPP. III) - CONTENT OF APOLOGETIC ARGUMENT IN OPPUGNATORES - "PHILOSOPHY" IN THE WRITINGS OF JOHN CHRYSOSTOM - PHILOSOPHIA = PAGAN THOUGHT - PHILOSOPHIA = CHRISTIAN REALITIES - MONASTICISM IDENTIFIED WITH PHILOSOPHY BY JOHN CHRYSOSTOM GENERAL - IN OPPUGNATORES - CONTEST BETWEEN PHILOSOPHY AND RHETORIC AS BEST FORM OF EDUCATION IN OPP. - MONASTICISM IDENTIFIED WITH THE CONTEMPLATIVE LIFE - PLATO - PHILO - ATHANASIUS, VITA ANTONI AND EASTERN MONASTICISM - CHRYSOSTOM IN OPPUGNATORES - MONASTICISM PRESENTED AS SOCIETAS PERFECTA IN OPP. - POSSIBLE INFLUENCE OF PLATO ON OPPUGNATORES - THE OPPONENTS OF THE MONKS ARE IDENTIFIED AS THE "UNPHILOSOPHIC" - CONLUSION: COMMON FEATURES OF APOLOGETICS IN THE SEVERAL DISCOURSES - CHRYSOSTOM DEFENDS ALL PARTS OF PATRISTIC THEOLOGY- RELATION OF CHRYSOSTOM'S APOLOGETIC THOUGHT TO HIS THEOLOGY AS A WHOLE - PROBABLE SOURCES OF CHRYSOSTOM'S APOLOGETICS.

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