Sermons

Name: Sermons
Author: Asterius of Amasea

Asterius of Amasea (350–410)

Ancient Sermons

for

Modern Times

By Asterius, Bishop of Amasia Circa 375-405, A. D.

Put into English from the Greek

By GALUSHA ANDERSON, S. T.D., LL. D.,

Professor of Homiletics, University of Chicago,

and

EDGAR JOHNSON GOODSPEED, Ph. D.,

Instructor in Biblical and Patristic Greek, University of Chicago

"As ye go, preach"

The Pilgrim Press

NEW YORK BOSTON CHICAGO

To those who have studied Homiletics under my direction and are now engaged in the peerless work of preaching Christ.

INTRODUCTION

FOUR or five years ago, while lecturing in the Divinity School of the University of Chicago on the History of Preaching, I spoke of the sermons of Asterius as especially interesting, and, although preached in the fourth century, as still fresh and admirably fitted to our times. Dr. Goodspeed, at that time a member of my class, and an enthusiastic and accurate Greek scholar, impressed by my remark, began to read some of the Greek discourses which I had so warmly commended. Convinced of their excellence, he made a literal translation of five of them. He chose for translation those sermons concerning whose authenticity there can scarcely be a reasonable doubt. Each of us went…

Sermons

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