"Read his work. Isn't it evident that in his mind the very concept of "Messianic Jew" is an oxymoron?"
Indeed I have read his work; everything extant several times over. Christian Orthodoxy's roots are deep in Judaism, but we are not Jews of any kind and our covenant with God is not the covenant God made with the Jews. And yes, I do think to his mind the idea of a Messianic Jew is an oxymoron, but I believe he felt this way because to him if one believed that Christ was the Messiah, if one could sincerely pray the Creed, then one was not a Jew but rather a Christian. If one claimed to believe in the Messiah/Christ and could not recite the Creed and accept the The Church as the only sure venue of theosis, one was a heretic and heresy destroyed and destroys souls. He and the other Fathers, both before and after him, were equally outspoken about other heretics. By the way, I agree with him at least to some extent.
"So I have no respect for him, and it saps my respect for the fourth-century church that they dubbed such a twit "the Golden-Mouthed."
He is my patron saint. I celebrate my name day on his feast day and his icons hang in my home and office. I doubt we could be further apart in our estimations of him.
Probably not. We'll leave it at that then.