Life and setting
Known as “Golden Mouth” for his preaching, Chrysostom delivered extensive homilies on Matthew, John, Acts and Pauline letters and repeatedly challenged wealth, exploitation and moral complacency.
Late Antiquity • Eastern / Nicene Christianity
John Chrysostom
c. 347 – 407 • Archbishop, preacher and biblical expositor
Why this person matters
His surviving homilies are among the richest records of ancient verse-by-verse Christian preaching and urban pastoral life.
What should not be sanitized
Some of his anti-Jewish homilies contain rhetoric that later readers must confront critically because of their harmful history.