The Empress and the Bishop: The Triumphs and Tragedy of John Chrysostom
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Book Details
Format: Paperback (286 pages)
Publisher: Sacristy Press
Date of Publication:
15 December 2024
ISBN: 978-1-78959-370-9
Every so often, a voice or preacher comes to challenge a city: Augustine in Hippo and Carthage, Savonarola in Florence, Calvin in Geneva and more recently Spurgeon in nineteenth-century London. In the late fourth century in Antioch, and then in Constantinople, it was the Golden Mouth (Chrysostom) of John whose voice and teaching carried the day.
Given to an ascetic life, he became the principal preacher in Antioch, where followers of the Way were first called Christians, and was then handpicked to be the Bishop of Constantinople, the New Rome founded by Constantine. Although loved by the people, he criticized the rich and their vanity, called for simplicity of life and chastity in sexual relations and methodically and engagingly preached through the Bible. But in Constantinople he made enemies both of the court and of the mercurial Empress Aelia Eudoxia, and more especially of jealous church leaders in Alexandria and elsewhere. Sent into exile precipitating a riot, he died of cold and exhaustion in an obscure part of Armenia, but not before conducting a moving correspondence with his soulmate Olympias, an Abbess in Constantinople.
His golden voice lived on in his luminous teaching, and the heavenly Orthodox liturgy to which his name was given.
In presenting this seminal biography written by Canon Patrick Whitworth, which offers a fresh perspective on John Chrysostom’s remarkable life, we ardently anticipate its contribution towards a deeper understanding of our eminent predecessor and extend our paternal and Patriarchal blessings to you, the reader, as you immerse yourself in its pages.
+Bartholomew, Archbishop of Constantinople–New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch