{"product_id":"voice-of-gold","title":"Voice of Gold","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Donald Attwater\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn of Antioch spoke eloquently and gracefully. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eYet it was not because of \u003ci\u003ehow\u003c\/i\u003e he spoke that he gained the surname \u003ci\u003eChrysostom\u003c\/i\u003e, “Voice of Gold”; rather, it was because of \u003ci\u003ewhat\u003c\/i\u003e he spoke about that made this epithet so fitting. This saint spoke, in the words of Saint John Henry Newman, because his heart and his head brimmed with things worth saying—“keen feelings, living ideas, earnest practical lessons,” each flowing from and pertaining to the glory of God above all things. In \u003ci\u003eVoice of Gold: The Life of Saint John Chrysostom\u003c\/i\u003e, Donald Attwater presents an engaging and orderly record that exceeds a simple biography. With little to no pretense at being either original or authoritative, Attwater sketches the dynamic personality of Chrysostom and colors it with many vivid quotations from the saint’s own sermons and epistles, telling his life, his speech, and his work, and bringing into sharp relief the world which he strove so strenuously to convert to Christ.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eWhen it first appeared in 1939, \u003ci\u003eVoice of Gold: The Life of Saint John Chrysostom \u003c\/i\u003emet the need for a Catholic treatment, in English, of this great Father and Doctor of the Church. The ensuing years have done nothing to diminish its luster or its value: the picture of Chrysostom still shines vigorously, as Newman said, like “a day in springtime, bright and rainy, and glittering through its rain.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eI am lighting a lamp—the lamp of God’s word.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e(\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eSaint John Chrysostom)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eDonald Attwater \u003c\/b\u003e(1892–1977) was a British Catholic author, editor, and translator. During World War I, he fought with the Royal Artillery in the Middle East; while there, he found his interest in Eastern Christianity, which inspired his many books on the saints and spirituality of the Christian Orient. An industrious editor, he also produced \u003ci\u003eA Catholic Dictionary\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Dictionary of Saints \u003c\/i\u003eas well as an edition (with Herbert Thurston, S.J.) of Butler’s \u003ci\u003eLives of the Saints \u003c\/i\u003ein four volumes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback:\u003c\/strong\u003e 236pp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 978-1685954956\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cluny Media","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49139434094811,"sku":null,"price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0458\/2329\/5645\/files\/ProductImages_317.jpg?v=1786732075","url":"https:\/\/clunymedia.com\/products\/voice-of-gold","provider":"Cluny Media","version":"1.0","type":"link"}