Saints and fanatics: the problematic connection between religion and spirituality.

Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought | September 22, 1996| | Copyright

1. Religion Produces Both Saints and Fanatics

In my research on the history of Christian anti-Semitism, I came across some who seem to have been both. The best known example is St. John Chrysostom, the great preacher of Byzantine Christianity, who was called the "golden mouth" for his eloquent sermons. Yet in the same sermons, so much praised up to the present day for their spirituality, he called the Jews deicides, killers of God, blaming them for all sorts of imaginary crimes, and describing their synagogues as whorehouses. In the mediaeval period, Franciscan saints ...

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