{"product_id":"the-covenants-of-christ","title":"The Covenants of Christ","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Saint John Chrysostom | Translated by Mary H. Allies\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eA saint’s own writings, \u003c\/b\u003eas Saint John Henry Newman once professed, give the “real” \u003ci\u003eLife\u003c\/i\u003e of that saint, expressing his or her “moral unity, identity, growth, continuity, personality.” Of all the Greek Church Fathers, none left to posterity a written legacy as expansive and eloquent as did Saint John Chrysostom; thus none is more readily knowable than this pastoral theologian of the fourth century. His commentaries and homilies on Scripture; his discourses against heretics; his instructions in morality and piety; his pane­gyrics for saints; his dogmatic works on such topics as the divinity of Christ, Divine Providence, and the priesthood; and his hundreds of letters from exile, all exhibiting an unreserved trust in God—by means of these, in the words of Pope Benedict XVI, Saint John “passed on the Church's tradition and reliable doctrine in an age of theological controversies,” and “reaffirmed the discovery that God loves each one of us with an infinite love and therefore desires salvation for us all.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eGlory be to God in all things.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e(\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eSaint John Chrysostom)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eCompiled and translated by Mary H. Allies, \u003ci\u003eCovenants of Christ: Selected Writ­ings\u003c\/i\u003e comprises forty-six of Saint John Chrysostom’s homilies (some whole, others in part) as well as eleven of his letters, and shows that the lessons of the Golden-mouthed remain both timely and profoundly instructive.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eSaint John Chrysostom\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e(c. 347–407), whose name means “Golden-mouthed,” was an Early Church Father. He served as Bishop of Constantinople from 397 until his death in 407, twice suffering exile. Still extant from his prolific literary output are more than seven hundred homilies, seventeen treatises, scriptural commentaries, and over two hundred letters. For his eloquent, prolific proclamation of the Gospel, he was named one of the four Great Doctors of the Eastern Church by Pope Pius V in 1568.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\" class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e* * *\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/strong\u003e 246pp.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e\u003cspan data-sheets-root=\"1\"\u003e978-1685953539\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cstyle type=\"text\/css\"\u003e\u003c!--td {border: 1px solid #cccccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}--\u003e\u003c\/style\u003e","brand":"Cluny Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53100040880495,"sku":"978-1685953539","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0970\/5337\/6879\/files\/ProductImages_5.5x8.5--1133.jpg?v=1781124934","url":"https:\/\/www.heavenlychristiangifts.com\/products\/the-covenants-of-christ","provider":"Heavenly Christian Gifts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}