The Spirituality of Chrysostom's Commentary on the Psalms
Chrysostom does not figure in traditional lists of spiritual guides from antiquity, nor his Commentary on the Psalms among spiritual classics. This may be due to ignorance of it by modern commentators, though aspects of its spiritual teaching could contribute to this omission: the preacher's ac...
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Johns Hopkins Univ. Press
1997
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Journal of early Christian studies
Year: 1997, Volume: 5, Issue: 4, Pages: 569-579 |
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| Summary: | Chrysostom does not figure in traditional lists of spiritual guides from antiquity, nor his Commentary on the Psalms among spiritual classics. This may be due to ignorance of it by modern commentators, though aspects of its spiritual teaching could contribute to this omission: the preacher's accent—if preached the commentaries were—on a balance of human effort and divine grace in the process of salvation was thought pelagian by some in the West in the patristic age. No mystic, Chrysostom can be pedestrian in his approach to prayer, and the claim some have made for him as initiator of a lay spirituality is open to question. But there is no doubting the Scriptural fare he provided to his (male) congregations in his classroom. |
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| ISSN: | 1086-3184 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of early Christian studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/earl.1997.0108 |