Saint John Chrysostom Apologist

✍ Scribed by Saint John Chrysostom, Margaret A. Schatkin (Translator)

• Publisher: The Catholic University of America Press
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 304
• Series: The Fathers of the Church Patristic Series, 73
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Apologist is the English translation of two of Chrysostom's treatises, written about 378 and 382, aimed at provoking the divinity of Jesus Christ. In Discourse in Blessed Babylas and Against the Greeks, Chrysostom responds to specific attacks on Christianity by such philosophers as Porphyry, using historical narrative and the arguments of fulfilled prophecies to prove Christ's divinity. Chrysostom relates the story of St. Babylas, bishop and martyr, who defended the Church against an evil emperor and whose relics produced sobriety at Daphne and silenced the oracle of Apollo. Although a product of Christianized sophistic rhetoric, the discourse on Babylas furnishes interesting new material on the development of the veneration of relics and church-state relations in the third and fourth centuries. Schatkin's translation is based on her critical edition prepared for Sources Chretiennes. The Demonstration Against the Pagans that Christ Is God is one of Chrysostom's earlier works and one of his basic contributions to apologetics. Chrysostom argues for Christ's divinity in the fulfillment of Old Testament prophecies and in Christ's own prophecies--particularly those on the phenomenal growth of the Church--to provide proof of a power that can be only divine. Harkins' translation is based on the unpublished critical edition of Norman G. McKendrick.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface. . . .... . . . . . ..... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . IX
Acknowledgments ....... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Xl
Discourse on Blessed Babylas and Against the Greeks . ..... .
Contents. . . . . . . . . . . . . .... . .. . . ... . . . . . . . ... . 3
Select Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . 5
Abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Text. ...................... , . . . ... . . . . . . ... . 75
Demonstration Against the Pagans that Christ is God. . . . . . . 153
Contents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Select Bibliography. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Text. ...................... , .. " ......... ,. . 187
Indices. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
General Index for Discourse on Blessed Babylas and
Against the Greeks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
Index of Holy Scripture for Discourse on Blessed
Babylas and Against the Greeks. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
General Index for Demonstration Against the
Pagans that Christ is God. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
Index of Holy Scripture for Demonstration Against
the Pagans that Christ is God. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295