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  • 30 - John Chrysostom and the Antiochene School to Theodoret of Cyrrhus

  • from A - LITERARY GUIDE
  • Edited by Frances Young, University of Birmingham, Lewis Ayres, Emory University, Atlanta, Andrew Louth, University of Durham
  • Assisted by Augustine Casiday, University of Durham
  • Book:
    The Cambridge History of Early Christian Literature
    Published online:
    28 March 2008
    Print publication:
    01 April 2004, pp 342-352

  • Summary

    Antioch was a centre of learning, especially in rhetoric: according to Libanios, professor of rhetoric in Antioch from 354, Athens and Antioch 'held aloft the torch of rhetoric', Athens for Europe and Antioch for Asia. Diodore was a native of Antioch where he learnt his theology, though he had also studied rhetoric at Athens. John Chrysostom came to be ranked with St Basil the Great and St Gregory the Theologian as one of the universal teachers of the Church. The learned ninth-century patriarch of Constantinople, Photius, praised him for the clarity and purity of his style, his brilliant fluency. One of John's most interesting works is his treatise On Priesthood, written 390/1 and beginning with an account of his early years and a defence of his flight from ordination by Bishop Meletios of Antioch. Like John, Theodore was born in Antioch and studied there, having Libanios as his teacher of rhetoric, and Diodore as his ascetical and theological master.