Baptismal Instructions #31

Publication Data: New York, NY/Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 1963
Format: hardcover
Number of Pages: vi + 375
Dimensions (l × w × h): 22.2 cm × 14.6 cm × 3.1 cm
ISBN: 0‒8091‒0262‒5

   
St. John Chrysostom
Translated and Annotated by Paul W. Harkins

No. 31 of Ancient Christian Writers: The Works of the Fathers in Translation

“Baptism, its symbolism, and its place in the economy of redemption have always been a a matter of extreme interest to theologians, liturgists, and all members of Christ’s Body. No part of the Church Militant can remain indifferent to any knowledge, new or old, of the sacrament of regeneration; when some new knowledge emerges from the obscurity of nearly sixteen centuries, the entire Church must leap for joy. The recent discovery of a MS. in a monastery on Mount Athos in Greece gives occasion for such joy because, among other things, this MS. contains a complete series of eight instructions on baptism given by St. John Chrysostom, probably at Antioch, about 390 A.D.”
—“Introduction”

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION
   Life
   Stavronikita 6
   Chrysostom’s Catechetical Homilies
   The Series of Montfaucon
   The Papadopoulos-Kerameus Series
   The Stavronikita Series
   Authenticity
   Antioch 390 (?)
TEXT
   The First Instruction (Stav. 1)
   The Second Instruction (Stav. 2)
   The Third Instruction (Stav. 3 and PK 4)
   The Fourth Instruction (Stav. 4)
   The Fifth Instruction (Stav. 5)
   The Sixth Instruction (Stav. 6)
   The Seventh Instruction (Stav. 7)
   The Eighth Instruction (Stav. 8)
   The Ninth Instruction (Montf. 1 and PK 1)
   The Tenth Instruction (PK 2)
   The Eleventh Instruction (PK 3)
   The Twelfth Instruction (Montf. 2)
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
NOTES
   To the Introduction
   To the Text
      The First Instruction (Stav. 1)
      The Second Instruction (Stav. 2)
      The Third Instruction (Stav. 3 and PK 4)
      The Fourth Instruction (Stav. 4)
      The Fifth Instruction (Stav. 5)
      The Sixth Instruction (Stav. 6)
      The Seventh Instruction (Stav. 7)
      The Eighth Instruction (Stav. 8)
      The Ninth Instruction (Montf. 1 and PK 1)
      The Tenth Instruction (PK 2)
      The Eleventh Instruction (PK 3)
      The Twelfth Instruction (Montf. 2)
INDEXES
   1. Old and New Testament
   2. Authors
   3. General Index