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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...

just Eve herself was responsible for the Fall of humanity, but that every woman carries this guilt. As he tells the women of his day, And do you not know that you are (each) an Eve? The sentence of God on this sex of yours lives in this age: the guilt (reatus)2 must of necessity live too. You are the devil’s gateway: you are the unsealer of that (forbidden) tree: you are the first deserter (desertrix) of the divine law: you are she who persuaded him whom the devil was not valiant enough to attack.
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