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To: Dr. Brian Kopp
No Christian can challenge the moral and theological authority of the great St. John Chrysostum

Taking into account his virulent anti-semitism, I beg to differ.

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/chrysostom-jews6.html

Unless you care to defend what he says?

2 posted on 11/30/2010 7:29:26 PM PST by Sherman Logan
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To: Sherman Logan

Helpful:
http://www.chrysostom.org/jews.html

Was Saint John Chrysostom Anti-Semitic?

Some modern readers have claimed that, based on a reading of St. John’s Orations Against the Judaizers, the saint was an Anti-Semite. Indeed, a glance over these writings could lead one to believe as such. Many Anti-Semitic groups throughout history have certainly tried to justify their beliefs and actions by using the writings of St. John.

What is unfortunate is that this misuse of the saint’s words is based significantly on a mistranslation of the title of the sermons, translated as Against the Jews, rather than Against the Judaizers, which is the rendering the most up to date translations are now using. By this adjustment, sermons intended by the saint to be polemics against those in 4th century Antioch who would try to Judaize the Christians are being read as racist invective.


6 posted on 11/30/2010 11:42:25 PM PST by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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To: Sherman Logan
See my fellow man, the fordham site honorably explains that it's quoted/provided translation of Chrysosdom’s homilies is from a virilently anti-semitic site and is not sourced as to who the translator is - see the linked site in my previous post as it is well-sourced and appears fair-minded.
7 posted on 11/30/2010 11:52:06 PM PST by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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