• DOI:10.1353/EARL.2016.0033
Corpus ID: 171226395

Diagnosing Heresy: Ps.-Martyrius’s Funerary Speech for John Chrysostom

@article{Barry2016DiagnosingHP,
  title={Diagnosing Heresy: Ps.-Martyrius’s Funerary Speech for John Chrysostom},
  author={J. Barry},
  journal={Journal of Early Christian Studies},
  year={2016},
  volume={24},
  pages={395 - 418}
}

J. Barry

Published 2016

Philosophy

Journal of Early Christian Studies

Abstract:John Chrysostom died ignominiously as an exiled and condemned heretic. Yet, early biographers worked to reverse his reputation and transformed John into a symbol of Christian orthodoxy. In this essay, I examine how one such biographer, Ps.-Martyrius, managed this task through the language of proper diagnosis. In his Funerary Speech for John Chrysostom, Ps.-Martyrius differentiates the symptoms of the disease of heresy from the symptoms of righteous suffering. To make his case, Ps… CONTINUE READING

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