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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...

than towards their children.”39 He was galled by the excessive extent to which women, especially the wealthy, devoted themselves to these things, convinced as he was that such practice was very deleterious spiritually, reflecting an over-attachment to earthly things as well as a disdain for the poor: This makes you and those living with you indolent (argas) in almsgiving. For not one of you would readily consent to break up one of these ornaments to feed a poor man. For when you would even choose
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