On Wealth and Poverty by St John Chrysostom - Spiritual Instruction - Christian Life - Book

Author: St. John Chrysostom Translator: Catharine P. Roth Foreword: Hank Hanegraaff Published: 2020 Size: 5 x 7 Pages: 136  Paperback Popular Patristics Series Volume 9  This is the second edition of this Popular Patristics volume, enhanced with freshly edited text, an updated cover, and a new foreword by Hank Hanegraaff. The sermons of St John Chrysostom are some of the richest classical commentaries on the Christian life. Knowing well the realities of life in the world, the temptation of rich and poor alike, this great orator—"the golden-mouthed"—addresses the questions of wealth and poverty in the lives of the people of his day. And yet, as the modern reader is confronted with his words, it becomes apparent that he, too, is being addressed; Chrysostom's words are words proclaiming the truth of the Gospel to all people of all times. The message of the story of the rich man and Lazarus (Luke 16:19-31) is brought home to every person in these six sermons of Chrysostom with clarity, i