Christians at Home: John Chrysostom and Domestic Rituals in Fourth-Century Antioch

Examines Christian home life in late antiquity through the writings, teachings, and reception of John Chrysostom, an Antioch priest who became bishop of Constantinople in 397 CE.

Blake Leyerle is Associate Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of The Narrative Shape of Emotion in the Preaching of John Chrysostom and Theatrical Shows and Ascetic Lives: John Chrysostom’s Attack on Spiritual Marriage.