By J. N. D. Kelly

"No different writer has delved so deeply into the existence and paintings of this complicated, influential, and tragic determine of the fourth century and produced this sort of far-ranging yet designated, solidly researched, and eminently readable account. . . . Chrysostom emerges as a sympathetic and tragic determine of significant integrity, whose human failings contributed and maybe ended in his downfall. . . . Kelly has used a cautious research of a lot of John's writings and sermons to give new insights and to verify info of Chrysostom's existence formerly thought of uncertain; his reviews and summaries stimulate one to show to the originals. people who find themselves drawn to Chrysostom or during this old interval needs to learn this book."--Catholic old evaluation "A profitable . . . learn in addition to a wealthy mine of ancient info. . . . [The e-book] is peppered with new, revisionist insights approximately . . . Chrysostom's life."--Bryn Mawr Classical evaluate "A enormous success, which examines with equity and thoroughness either the first resources and carrying on with scholarship on John and his often-stormy episcopacy in Constantinople."--Christian Century

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Moreover the God presented therein seemed overly anthropomorphic and overly concerned with animal sacrifice. During this period Augustine encountered disciples of the Manichees (a severe heretical sect that stressed a primeval and ongoing conflict between the forces of light and darkness as the explanation for evil in the world and that regarded the material world as evil). They taxed the already doubting would-be Christian with the question of the problem of evil—where does evil come from if God is good?

Thomas was a brilliant interpreter of the work of Aristotle, in criticism of the tradition based on Plato (neo-platonism) that had prevailed in the West from Augustine to Anselm. But he was not afraid to criticise Aristotle when necessary. A classic example of his theological adaptation of Aristotle’s philosophy is in his doctrine of analogy, often misinterpreted but worked out with great subtlety. Thomas’s views on analogy can be overstated, but simply put he argues that the words we apply to God neither mean exactly the same as when we use them in relation to things in the world, nor do they mean something completely different.

1. T. 1. T. 1. 2a, 3. T. 3. 46a, 3 See also: Anselm; Augustine; Barth; Luther Glossary: Neo-platonism; revelation; Trinity Major writings Selections in Basic Writings, ed. Pegis, New York: Random House, 1945 Philosophical Texts, ed. Gilby, London: OUP, 1951 Theological Texts, ed. Gilby, London: OUP, 1955 Summa Theologice, 61 vols, ed. 270–336) Arius was a distinguished fourth-century theologian from Alexandria in Egypt of very considerable talent whose views on the precise relationship between God the Father and God the Son in the Christian conception of God were condemned at the Council of Nicaea in 325.

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