"He who hath redeemed thee, hath shewn thee what He would have thee do. He would have thee be instant in prayer, He would have thee ponder in thy heart the blessings thou art praying for, He would have thee ask and receive what His goodness is longing to impart....
The preceding essays in this study have argued that John Chrysostom held salvation to be received immediately, through faith and a verbal calling upon Christ, and subsequently maintained or forfeited according to the life that follows. That argument has so far left one body of evidence untouched: Chrysostom's own statements...
A common move in contemporary apologetics is to grant that John Chrysostom uses the phrase faith alone, sometimes affirmatively and sometimes critically, and to conclude from the critical instances that his affirmative use of the phrase must be read in a sense compatible with the Council of Trent. One proponent...
The claim that John Chrysostom denied justification by faith alone is common enough to need a direct answer, and the answer requires first being precise about what is being denied. The Catholic Catechism distinguishes justification, the beginning of salvation, from salvation in its completed sense, and holds that justification requires...
A widely repeated claim holds that John Chrysostom denied justification by faith alone. The evidence usually offered is a single sentence from his thirty-first homily on the Gospel of John: that not even from the promise of eternal life to the one who believes do we assert that faith alone...