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How should the Adversus Judaeos homilies be weighed against John Chrysostom's continuing veneration, and by whom?

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The texts, their dating and their later use in antisemitic polemic are all documented and not in dispute. What is unsettled is what follows. Historians locate them in a local Antiochene quarrel and in the conventions of ancient invective; others hold that the framing does not answer for the use made of them. Churches that venerate him have acknowledged harm without any agreed consequence for the liturgical texts or the calendar.

What would resolve this This is not resolvable by evidence. It would be settled, if at all, by a deliberate judgement of the churches concerned, taken publicly and with reasons, in the way other reception questions have been handled.
OpenPatristics; Jewish-Christian relations; ecclesiologyJ. N. D. Kelly, Golden Mouth: The Story of John Chrysostom, Ascetic, Preacher, Bishop
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Source Golden Mouth: The Story of John Chrysostom, Ascetic, Preacher, BishopJ. N. D. Kelly
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Golden Mouth: The Story of John Chrysostom, Ascetic, Preacher, Bishop
J. N. D. Kelly, Cornell University Press, 1995Chapters on the Antiochene preachingView the Source
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