On Wealth and Poverty

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St Vladimir's Seminary Press, 1984 - Religion - 140 pages

Popular Patristics Series Volume 9


This is the second edition of this Popular Patristics volume, enhanced with freshly edited text, an updated cover, and a new foreword by Hank Hanegraaff.

The sermons of St John Chrysostom are some of the richest classical commentaries on the Christian life. Knowing well the realities of life in the world, the temptation of rich and poor alike, this great orator-"the golden-mouthed"-addresses the questions of wealth and poverty in the lives of the people of his day. And yet, as the modern reader is confronted with his words, it becomes apparent that he, too, is being addressed; Chrysostom's words are words proclaiming the truth of the Gospel to all people of all times. The message of the story of the rich man and Lazarus (Luke 16:19-31) is brought home to every person in these six sermons of Chrysostom with clarity, insight into the human dilemma, compassion, and judgment.

Related texts in the Popular Patristics Series include St Basil the Great's on Social Justice (PPS 38) and several other works by St John Chrysostom: Six Books on the Priesthood (PPS 1), On Marriage and Family Life (PPS 7), The Cult of the Saints (PPS 31), and Letters to Olympia (PPS 56).

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Contents

Introduction
7
St John Chrysostom first sermon
19
St John Chrysostom second sermon
39
St John Chrysostom third sermon
57
St John Chrysostom fourth sermon
79
St John Chrysostom sixth sermon
97
St John Chrysostom seventh sermon
125
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