#Theodoret of Cyrus

This article analyses the patristic perspective on the relationship between humans and animals, beginning with Celsus’s critique of the Christian teaching on human dominion over creation and continuing with the responses of Origen, Saint Basil the Great, Saint John Chrysostom, Saint Gregory of Nyssa and Theodoret of Cyrus, who establish a dominion based on reason, responsibility and cooperation, not on violence.

The article analyses the catechetical model of the Church Fathers, from Saint Justin the Martyr and Saint Hippolytus to Saint John Chrysostom and Isidore of Seville, beginning with the primary catechumenate and identifying, through the work of the scholar Francesco Trisoglio, eight patristic catechetical approaches proposed as an alternative to the crisis in contemporary preaching.