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John Chrysostom Polemics Heretics Jews Antioch SchismogenesisSujets proches
Jewish people Judaists Judaic people Jewry Israelites HebrewsCiter ce document
Pierluigi Lanfranchi, « Jews and Heretics in John Chrysostom », HAL SHS (Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société), ID : 10670/1.628b10...
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John Chrysostom simplifies the contemporary religious complexity offourth-century Antioch by dividing humanity into four groups: Christians,heretics, Jews and ‘Greeks.’ In an attempt to preserve his own communityfrom heretical and judaizing tendencies, he conducts his polemical battle onall fronts, but the strategies and arguments used against the different groupsvary. While Chrysostom presents Judaism as a monolithic and undifferentiatedentity, he gives an account of the great variety of heretical currents. However,there are also common elements in Chrysostom’s polemic, for instancethe demonization of the adversary and the use of the language of impurityand disease aimed at arousing disgust in his audience. Chrysostom wantedhis audience to learn how to make a division between Christians and hereticsand between Christians and Jews, who in his view stand in opposition toeach other. The operation could be interpreted as a process of ‘schismogenesis,’a term coined by Gregory Bateson to analyze different forms of contactbetween cultures.
