John Chrysostom (347–407)

Source: The Complete Library of Christian Worship, Robert E. Webber, General Editor

John Chrysostom, known as the "golden orator," was a master communicator, certainly one of the two or three greatest preachers in the church's history. He was a follower of the Antiochian method of biblical exegesis. This tradition rejected the Platonic allegorizing of the Alexandrian school in favor of a concern for a grammatical, historical, theological method of interpretation.

Chrysostom's Educational Background

John, afterward surnamed Chrysostom ("golden-mouthed," so-named for his...

 

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