Word: chrysostom
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...Psalm CII), A. ArkhangelskyPART II."Bless the Lord, O my Soul" (Liturgy), M. Ippolitoff-Ivanoff.The Cherubimic Hymn (The Great Entrance at the Liturgy), P. Tchaikovsky"My soul shall exault in the Lord" Liturgy), M. Balakireff"God is with us" (Christmas Eve), A. Kastalsky"Meet is it" (Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom), V. TcherepninLord, have mercy, An Ancient ChantLord, have mercy, G. Lvovsk
...case of the Inquisition--chartered the foulest of abuses. "We Remember" further contended that the Holocaust was the product not of Christianity but of a "neo-pagan" regime that had renounced the faith, but Carroll portrays Hitler as the heir to such church-sanctioned haters as St. John Chrysostom and Torquemada. "By tapping into a deep, ever-fresh reservoir of Christian hatred of Jews," he writes, the German dictator made the Catholic Church "an accomplice in history's worst crime...
...centuries of Christians would oblige them with massacres and persecutions, pogroms and expulsions of "Christ killers" and the depredations of the Inquisition, laying groundwork for the unspeakable horrors of the Holocaust. Anti-Jewish passions came not only from misinterpreters of faith but from the spiritual authorities themselves, from John Chrysostom, from Thomas Aquinas -- both saints of Christendom -- indeed, from Martin Luther, who turned against the Jews after they spurned his reformed Christianity...
...story with a beginning, middle and end that exerts a satisfying dramatic unity and humanizes its subject. Such notions are wishful thinking and Philistine romanticism, says the author. His own view is that the meanings of Mozart's life and music are completely separate, that Johann Chrysostom Wolfgang Amadeus in fact hid behind his nonverbal art. The author paraphrases Kierkegaard on Don Giovanni: "Don Juan is not someone who creates himself by thought, but someone who can only reveal himself musically, since the erotic principle by which he lives evades his consciousness or its conscious verbal expression...
Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Chrysostom, Aquinas, Shakespeare, Goethe, Dostoyevsky-we have nobody comparable to these men in our age. You can live ten lives on them, and the remarkable thing is that they are more relevant to the present than any man in the present. Progress! Fiddlesticks! Who has progressed from the Psalms, or from Isaiah or Jeremiah, or from the New Testament...