Bishop Danilo Krstic: ON DIVINE PHILANTHROPY From Plato to John Chrysostom

Serbian Orthodox Church – 7/2/13 ON DIVINE PHILANTHROPY by Bishop Danilo Krstic This book describes the use of the notion of divine philanthropy from its first appearance in Aeschylos and Plato to the highly polyvalent use of it by John Chrysostom. Each page is marked by meticulous scholarship and great insight, lucidity of thought and expression. Bishop Danilo’s principal methodology in examining Chrysostom is a philological analysis of his works in order to grasp all the semantic shades of the concept of philanthropia throughout his vast literary output