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Calling and Believing: John Chrysostom, Diodore of Tarsus, and the Question of Faith Alone

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...

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