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    STUDIA THEOLOGIA CATHOLICA - Issue no. 2 / 2009  
         
  Article:   SAINT JOHN CHRYSOSTOM’ PERSONALITY / LA PERSONNALITÉ DE SAINT JEAN CHRYSOSTOME.

Authors:  LIVIU PETCU. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  Saint John Chrysostom’ personality. As any other great personality and as a Church Father, he does not allow his whole personality to be depicted in a few sentences, no matter how much they would strive to compose a synthesis. With the passing of the time, his stature but increases. There is no other Father that left a vaster literary heritage. As it regards Saint John Chrysostom’ work, we may say that he leaves posterity a great work, unequalled both in size and in contents, comprising 18 volumes in Migne edition (vol. 47-64), comparable only with that of Origen or of Blessed Augustine. In his exegesis, he first tries to find the literal sense and is not afraid to make, whenever the case, grammatical or linguistic considerations to explain a difficult passage, but this signifies nothing else but a preparation to infer the typical sense or the moral teaching of the text. The only aim that he always wants to gain is a utility for his auditory.

KEYWORDS: personality, Saint John Chrysostom, Greek Father, preacher, exegesis, orator, shepard of souls, Liturgie. 		 
         
     
         
         
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