MARRIAGE AND FAMILY LIFE

 

፠ GUIDELINES FOR AN ORTHODOX MARRIAGE

(St John Chrysostom’s commentaries on man-woman relations,  marriage and conjugal abuse)


INDEX

1. Introduction

2. The problem of acculturation and distortions of the faith

3. Appraising Chrysostom’s works through the Orthodox phronema

4. Methodology

5. An overview of Chrysostom’s teachings on marriage

6. Implications for the present

7. Bibliography

 


This essay is adapted from the paper titled “Beyond a feminist ‘hermeneutics of suspicion’: Reading St John Chrysostom’s commentaries on man-woman relations, marriage and conjugal abuse through the Orthodox phronema” by Romina Istratii (published by The SOAS Journal of Postgraduate Research (SJPR) here).

Editor: R.I,   Translators: E.G and F.A.