TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tonias,Demetrios E.
TI  - Abraham in the works of John Chrysostom
T2  - Emerging scholars
SN  - 9781451479737
U1  - 262.12 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Minneapolis [Minnesota]
PB  - Fortress Press
KW  - Abraham
KW  - John Chrysostom,
KW  - John Chrysostom
KW  - BIBLES
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - RELIGION / Christian Theology / History
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Boston College, 2011; Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-219) and index; Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Literary, Rhetorical, and Exegetical Influences -- Abraham's Virtue -- Abraham's Pastoral Significance -- Abraham's Exegetical and Theological Significance -- Abraham in Chrysostom's View of Jews and Judaism -- De beato Abraham : An Authentic Homily of John Chrysostom -- Conclusion -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Bibliography -- Index
N2  - Throughout its first three centuries of existence, the Christian community, while new to the Roman world's pluralistic religious scene, portrayed itself as an historic religion. The early church community claimed the Jewish Bible as their own and looked to it to defend their claims to historicity. While Jews looked to Moses and the Sinai covenant as the focus of their historical relationship with God, the early church fathers and apologists identified themselves as inheritors of the promise given to Abraham and saw their mission to the Gentiles as the fulfillment of God's declaration that Abraham would be "a father of many nations" (Gen 17:5). It is in light of this background that Demetrios Tonias undertakes the first, comprehensive examination of John Chrysostom's view of the patriarch Abraham. By analyzing the full range of references to Abraham in Chrysostom's work, Tonias reveals the ways in which Chrysostom used Abraham as a model of philosophical and Christian virtue, familial devotion, philanthropy, and obedient faith
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