Abstract
John Chrysostom is known for his work as preacher and dogmatist, and as a pious man who was forced against his will into church politics and church leadership. This essay profiles John Chrysostom as a pastoral counsellor and focuses on his counselling to women. His contribution to pastoral counselling is established in three areas. In the first place John Chyrsostom offers the relanguaging of destructive discourses and the renaming of disempowering stereotypes as a powerful means of healing. Secondly, John Chrysostom's counselling is not prescriptive but encourages the counsellee to make choices within her preferred way of being. In the last place John Chrysostom guides the counsellee to retell her story as a resistance narrative, which provides a novel insight into pastoral care in the fourth century.
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