Christians at Home

Blake Leyerle is Professor of Early Christianity 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.

"This excellent study will interest advanced students of early Christianity." -A. W. Klink Choice "This marvelous book is a milestone in the study of lived religion in antiquity." -Georgia Frank Journal of Religious History "Blake Leyerle's Christians at Home is an enlightening and engaging study that sheds light on the often-overlooked domestic aspects of early Christian life." -Randall Woodard Catholic Books Review "This book will be valuable not only to those interested in Chrysostom, but also in preaching, liturgy, gender, asceticism, and ecclesiology, to all of which the book contributes through the erudition with which it treats the intersection between Chrysostom's programme and the lives of those to whom he preaches." -Alexander Bailey Heythrop Journal "Leyerle offers an accessible, insightful study that will not only appeal to audiences interested in John Chrysostom and church leadership, but also to those interested in the lives of ordinary people. It offers an intriguing glimpse of the variety of versions of Christianity people were practicing, as well as the dynamic between clergy and laity." -Caroline Johnson Hodge Journal of Early Christian Studies "It is not very often that one has the privilege to read a work such as this-so well argued, so beautifully written, and making such a crucial contribution to scholarship. This book beautifully presents and critically analyzes the apparent tension between John Chrysostom and his audience regarding his expectations for their domestic religious devotion." -Chris L. de Wet, author of Preaching Bondage: John Chrysostom and the Discourse of Slavery in Early Christianity "In beautiful prose and with brilliant insights, Blake Leyerle lays open the domestic world of an ancient urban Christianity as it struggled to accept or resist John Chrysostom's strange teachings." -David Frankfurter, author of Christianizing Egypt: Syncretism and Local Worlds in Late Antiquity