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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...

he highly extols the power of a wife, through her own virtue, to help guide her husband to salvation—surely a very important matter indeed!7 How can we explain such extreme and apparently contradictory statements? In assessing Chrysostom’s thought, we must always remember his penchant for rhetorical exaggeration. In his education as a youth, he excelled in rhetoric; he was an outstanding student of Libanius of Antioch, one of the
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