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Chrysostom's devil : demons, the will, and virtue in patristic soteriology / Samantha L. Miller.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: New explorations in theologyPublication details: Downers Grove, Illinois : IVP Academic, [2020]Description: xvii, [194] p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780830849178
Uniform titles:
  • No sympathy for the devil
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Chrysostom's devilDDC classification:
  • 235/.4092 23
LOC classification:
  • BR65.C46 M55 2020
Contents:
Jewish, pagan, and Christian demonology before Chrysostom -- Chrysostom's demonology -- Greco-Roman accounts of proairesis and virtue -- Chrysostom's anthropology -- Chrysostom's soteriology.
Summary: "References to demons and the devil permeate the rhetoric of John Chrysostom, the "golden-tongued" early church preacher and theologian. Samantha Miller examines Chrysostom's theology and world, helping us understand the role of demons in his soteriology and exploring what it means to be human and to follow Christ in a world of temptation"--
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Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Marquette University, 2016, under the title: No sympathy for the devil : the significance of demons in John Chrysostom's soteriology.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Jewish, pagan, and Christian demonology before Chrysostom -- Chrysostom's demonology -- Greco-Roman accounts of proairesis and virtue -- Chrysostom's anthropology -- Chrysostom's soteriology.

"References to demons and the devil permeate the rhetoric of John Chrysostom, the "golden-tongued" early church preacher and theologian. Samantha Miller examines Chrysostom's theology and world, helping us understand the role of demons in his soteriology and exploring what it means to be human and to follow Christ in a world of temptation"--

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