The Great Awakener
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The Great Awakener
ISO KIRJA COLLEGE
JONATHAN EDWARDS "THE GREAT AWAKENER"
A TERM PAPER SUBMITTED TO
PROFESSOR JIM LOWELL
FOR THE COURSE OF
INTRODUCTION TO MISSIONS
BY
ANTTI JÄÄSKELÄINEN
SINT-PIETERS-LEEUW, BELGIUM
NOVEMBER 2003
There would be no more heathen if we would be true Christians.
John Chrysostom, I Epistle to Tim. Homily X
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter
1. INTRODUCTION 1
2. YOUTH AND TRAINING 2
3. CONVERSION AND ASCETIC LIFE 4
4. CHRYSOSTOM AS A MONK 5
5. CHRYSOSTOM AS DEACON, PRIEST AND PREACHER IN ANTIOCH 6
6. AS A PATRIARCH OF CONSTANTINOPLE 8
7. WRITINGS AND THEOLOGY 11
8. AS A PREACHER 14
9. CONCLUSIONS 16
10. WORKS CITED 17
CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
In this term paper it is my intention to present an overview of a life of one of the greatest preachers, and writers of the Eastern church of all times. It is my goal to approach the topic in a chronological order giving a basic biogaphy of John Chrysostom. We will go through the life of this great preacher right from the years of his youth and training to the time he spent as a lawyer in Antioch. We will take a brief look on his conversion and years of ascetism and the early Christian education he received as a catechumen.
In the fourth chapter we will deal with his life as a monk, a characteristics that was always part of his personality. After the rigorous times of ascetism Chrysostom returned to the city of Antioch and was almost immediately ordained to be a deacon and five years later a presbyter. In chapter six is included the time he spent in Constantinople as a bishop and the time of the exiles he was forced to go through, exiles which finally resulted in his death.
In the last chapters we will take a closer look on his...
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