He Would Not Keep Silent

Drawing on his own sermons, his letters from exile, and sixteen centuries of living testimony within the tradition that never stopped loving him, this book puts you inside the crowd, inside the basilica, inside the prison ship, close enough to feel the cold of that final winter march through Pontus. This is the John Chrysostom the Church Fathers knew: a desert-trained ascetic who fasted until his stomach failed him, a bishop who auctioned the episcopal silver to feed the city's poor, a preacher whose homilies on Matthew and Romans still electrify readers today, and a man of pastoral tenderness who wrote some of the most consoling letters in all of Christian literature, from the very exile his enemies designed to break him. He would not keep silent. He never did.