C.L. de Wet and W. Mayer (eds.), Revisioning John Chrysostom (Brill; Leiden, 2019)
- Memories of Utopia
- Apr 7, 2019
- 2 min read
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.
'The volume is a valuable research tool, as it also provides detailed footnotes and bibliographies for each essay. And the appendices include a bibliography of ancient sources as well as of John Chrysostom’s works, followed by a useful index of ancient sources and a general index. The volume belongs in research libraries.[...] Revisioning John Chrysostom sets a vast and abundant table before us. The breadth of generations, its remarkable scope, and diverse methodologies enrich this volume. The editors and contributors are to be commended for conveying so richly the relevance of Chrysostom’s works across disciplines, centuries, and continents.'
Contents
C.L. de Wet and W. Mayer, Approaching and Appreciating John Chrysostom in New Ways.
C.W. VanVeller, John Chrysostom and the Troubling Jewishness of Paul.
W. Mayer, Preaching Hatred? John Chrysostom, Neuroscience, and the Jews.
I. Sandwell, Preaching and Christianisation: Communication, Cognition, and Audience Reception.
G. Roskam, Emancipatory Preaching: John Chrysostom’s Homily Peccata fratrum non evulganda (CPG 4389).
J.R. Stenger, Text Worlds and Imagination in Chrysostom’s Pedagogy.
J. Cook, “Hear and Shudder!”: John Chrysostom’s Therapy of the Soul.
B. Leyerle, Locating Animals in John Chrysostom’s Thought.
Y. Papadogiannakis, Homiletics and the History of Emotions: The Case of John Chrysostom.
P.C. Moore, Bound Together for Heaven: Mutual Emotions in Chrysostom’s Homilies on Matthew for Well-Ordered and Fruitful Community in Anxious Times.
J. Wright, Brain, Nerves, and Ecclesial Membership in John Chrysostom.
C.L. de Wet, The Preacher’s Diet: Gluttony, Regimen, and Psycho-Somatic Health in the Thought of John Chrysostom.
S. Pomeroy, Reading Plato through the Eyes of Eusebius: John Chrysostom’s Timaeus Quotations in Rhetorical Context.
C.A. Bozinis, The Natural Law in John Chrysostom.
F. Gkortsilas, “Dogs Priced at Three Obols”: The Reception of Cynicism in John Chrysostom.
D.E. Tonias, The Iconic Abraham as John Chrysostom’s High Priest of Philanthropy.
P.-W. Lai, Exemplar Portraits and the Interpretation of John Chrysostom’s Doctrine of Recapitulation.
S.L. Miller, The Devil Did Not Make You Do It: Chrysostom’s Refutation of Modern Deliverance Theology.
B.H. Dunning, John Chrysostom and Same-Sex Eros in the History of Sexuality.
J.P. Stanfill, The Body of Christ’s Barbarian Limb: John Chrysostom’s Processions and the Embodied Performance of Nicene Christianity.
L. Dossey, Night in the Big City: Temporal Patterns in Antioch and Constantinople as Revealed by Chrysostom’s Sermons.
J.M. Pigott, Capital Crimes: Deconstructing John’s “Unnecessary Severity” in Managing the Clergy at Constantinople.
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