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Women and Men in the Early Church: The Full Views of St. John Chrysostom is unavailable, but you can change that!

David C. Ford lets John Chrysostom speak for himself, bringing the wisdom of the ancient Christian father to bear on gender issues. Drawing heavily from Chrysostom’s homilies and other primary sources, he illuminates Chrysostom’s teachings on marriage, sexuality, gender roles in the family and church, and his view of women in general. Analyzing Chrysostom’s views on these issues, Ford shows that...

himself, in his later writings, done in the midst of his cosmopolitan priestly ministry in Antioch and Constantinople, he presents the highly exalted view of marriage which we have described in Chapter Two. This very significant development in the expression of his thought seems to be completely overlooked and/or discounted by Elizabeth Clark, Elizabeth Castelli, Peter Brown, and other commentators who follow their interpretation of Chrysostom. For instance, when Clark states in her introduction
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