John Chrysostom (ca. 347–407) was the archbishop of Constantinople, and the most prolific of all the Eastern fathers. He was called Chrysostom (meaning “golden mouthed”) for his eloquent sermons. [1] This most distinguished of Greek patristic preachers excelled in spiritual and moral application in the Antiochene tradition of literal exegesis, largely disinterested, even untutored in speculative and controversial theology. [2] His work, On the Incomprehensible Nature of God ( De incomp. ), [3] is a polemical and apologetical treatise, which was originally a series of homilies presented to laymen, orthodox and heterodox, who he was trying to edify and sway from error, particularly a new uprising of Arian followers, the Anomoeans. While the Arians erroneously claimed that the Son was of similar substance ( homoiousios ) with the Father, the Anomoeans held that Christ must be dissimilar and unlike ( anomoios ) God, hence the name Anomoeans. Chrysostom issues a solid defense of