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The Church Fathers · c. 433–450
The Sermons
Peter Chrysologus · c. 380–c. 450
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What it is
Around a hundred and eighty very short sermons from Ravenna, built on antithesis and wordplay, and rarely longer than a few minutes to deliver.
Why it lasted
A rare record of deliberately brief preaching in an age of long sermons, from the imperial capital of the West.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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