Revisioning John Chrysostom : : new approaches, new perspectives / / edited by Chris L. de Wet and Wendy Mayer.

• TeilnehmendeR: De Wet, Chris L., 1982-; Mayer, Wendy, 1960-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston, MA : : Brill,, [2019]
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Critical Approaches to Early Christianity 1.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (840 pages).

In Revisioning John Chrysostom , Chris de Wet and Wendy Mayer harness and promote a new wave of scholarship on the life and works of this famous late-antique (c. 350-407 CE) preacher. New theories from the cognitive and neurosciences, cultural and sleep studies, and history of the emotions, among others, meld with reconsideration of lapsed approaches – his debt to Graeco-Roman paideia, philosophy, and now medicine – resulting in sometimes surprising and challenging conclusions. Together the chapters produce a fresh vision of John Chrysostom that moves beyond the often negative views of the 20th century and open up substantially new vistas for exploration.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Approaching and Appreciating John Chrysostom in New Ways / Chris L. de Wet and Wendy Mayer -- John Chrysostom and the Troubling Jewishness of Paul / Courtney Wilson VanVeller -- Preaching Hatred? John Chrysostom, Neuroscience, and the Jews / Wendy Mayer -- Preaching and Christianisation: Communication, Cognition, and Audience Reception / Isabella Sandwell -- Emancipatory Preaching: John Chrysostom’s Homily Peccata fratrum non evulganda (CPG 4389) / Geert Roskam -- Text Worlds and Imagination in Chrysostom’s Pedagogy / Jan R. Stenger -- “Hear and Shudder!”: John Chrysostom’s Therapy of the Soul / James Cook -- Locating Animals in John Chrysostom’s Thought / Blake Leyerle -- Homiletics and the History of Emotions: The Case of John Chrysostom / Yannis Papadogiannakis -- Bound Together for Heaven: Mutual Emotions in Chrysostom’s Homilies on Matthew for Well-Ordered and Fruitful Community in Anxious Times / Peter C. Moore -- Brain, Nerves, and Ecclesial Membership in John Chrysostom / Jessica Wright -- The Preacher’s Diet: Gluttony, Regimen, and Psycho-Somatic Health in the Thought of John Chrysostom / Chris L. de Wet -- Reading Plato through the Eyes of Eusebius: John Chrysostom’s Timaeus Quotations in Rhetorical Context / Samuel Pomeroy -- The Natural Law in John Chrysostom / Constantine A. Bozinis -- “Dogs Priced at Three Obols”: The Reception of Cynicism in John Chrysostom / Paschalis Gkortsilas -- The Iconic Abraham as John Chrysostom’s High Priest of Philanthropy / Demetrios E. Tonias -- Exemplar Portraits and the Interpretation of John Chrysostom’s Doctrine of Recapitulation / Pak-Wah Lai -- The Devil Did Not Make You Do It: Chrysostom’s Refutation of Modern Deliverance Theology / Samantha L. Miller -- John Chrysostom and Same-Sex Eros in the History of Sexuality / Benjamin H. Dunning -- The Body of Christ’s Barbarian Limb: John Chrysostom’s Processions and the Embodied Performance of Nicene Christianity / Jonathan P. Stanfill -- Night in the Big City: Temporal Patterns in Antioch and Constantinople as Revealed by Chrysostom’s Sermons / Leslie Dossey -- Capital Crimes: Deconstructing John’s “Unnecessary Severity” in Managing the Clergy at Constantinople / Justin M. Pigott -- Back Matter -- Bibliographies.