On the Incomprehensible Nature of God

by John Chrysostom

Book Overview

Ten of the twelve homilies of St. John Chrysostom presented here were delivered at Antioch over a period of several years beginning in A.D. 386. The final two homilies were delivered in 398 after Chrysostom became patriarch of Constantinople. All but one of the homilies aim at refuting the Anomoeans, heretics who revived the most radical tenets of Arius and blatantly claimed that man knows God in the very same way that God knows himself. Chrysostom's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813210275
• ISBN13: 9780813210278
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
• Length: 372 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.2"