John Chrysostom on the Roman Empire: The Political Thought of the Early Church (Constantine Bozinis)

Of empire, democracy, and mixed government, through the prism of one of the greatest Fathers of the Church.

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"In late modernity a strange delusion has taken hold among many Christians. They have come to believe that democracy, broad popular participation in how a society is governed, is a morally superior political system, even one desired by God, rather than simply one among many, and perhaps one both morally and practically worse than any other. To every Christian thinker of the prior two thousand years, apotheosizing democracy in this way would have been bizarre at best, heretical at worst. We can be sure that such an idea never passed the mind of Saint John of Antioch, known as Chrysostom, who lived and died under the Empire of Rome. . . ."