Chrysostom’s “Apatheia of the Angels”
John Chrysostom uses a curious phrase to describe Adam and Eve’s fall in his homilies on Genesis: they lost the “apatheia of the angels” (tōn angelōn tēn apatheian). This suggests that Chrysostom believed that Adam and Eve possessed apatheia before the fall, even in their bodies. He uses the phrase...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2025
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Journal of early Christian history
Year: 2025, Volume: 15, Issue: 1, Pages: 23-38 |
| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality KCA Monasticism; religious orders KCD Hagiography; saints NBE Anthropology |
| Further subjects: | B
John Chrysostom
B Apatheia B Anthropology B Angels B Asceticism |
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