A History of Eastern Christianity (Routledge Revivals) [1 ed.] 9781032505619, 9781003399063, 9781032505688, 1032505613

Table of contents :
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Original Title Page
Original Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
List of Maps
Part I: Alexandrine Christianity the Copts and Their Church
1: Introductory
The Term ‘Copt’
Coptic Language
Ancient Egyptian Religion
Flight of the Holy Family
2: Origins of Coptic Christianity
St Mark the Founder
Age of Persecution
The Catechetical School
Saints and Heretics: Age of Athanasius and Cyril
3: The Copts and the World
Missionary Enterprise
Œcumenical Movement
Monastic Rule
4: Aftermath of Chalcedon
Monophysitism versus Diophysitism
The Henoticon
Monotheletism
5: The Copts Under Arab Rule
The Arab Conquest
First Five Centuries
Age of the Crusades
6: Modern Times
The Ottoman Turks
The Copts Under the French
Age of Cyril IV, Father of Coptic Reform
Cyril V: Clerical Conservatism versus Popular Constitutionalism
Coming of the Missionary
An Innovation
Modern Reform
Internationalism and Œcumenicity
7: Coptic Faith and Culture
The Hierarchy
Rites and Ceremonials
Coptic Art
Coptic Architecture
Coptic Music
Coptic Literature
8: The Ethiopians
Introductory
Historical Background
Church Origins and Development
Ethiopian Faith and Culture
Part II: Antioch and the Jacobites
9: Origin and Development
Historical Setting
Apostolic Visitations and Early History
Nicæa to Chalcedon
Jacob Baradæus
Ascetics and Stylites
10: The Jacobites in History
Under the Caliphate
First Three Centuries
Age of Decline
Mongols, Turks and Kurds
Missionary Movement
11: Faith and Culture
The Hierarchy
Rites and Liturgy
Art and Architecture
Part III: The Nestorian Church
12: Origins and Development
Introductory
Age of Legend
Historic Origins
Nestorians in Persia
13: Expansion of the Nestorian Church
Arabia
Central Asia
China
Other Places
Conclusion
14: The Nestorians and the Caliphate
First Three Centuries
Beginning of Decline
15: The Nestorians in Modern Times
Seclusion, Schism and Re-Discovery
The Last Phase
16: Faith and Culture
The Hierarchy
Monasticism
Rites and Liturgy
Art and Architecture
Waning of Syriac Literature
Part IV: The Armenian Church
17: Introduction
General Remarks
Historical Background
18: Origins and Development of Armenian Christianity
Pre-Gregorian Christianity and the Age of Legend
St Gregory the Illuminator
Fourth-Century Reform and the Armenian Bible
The Armenians and Chalcedon
19: Times of Trial
The Caliphate
The Crusades
The Five Patriarchs
Coming of the Missionary
20: Armenian Faith and Culture
General Character
Liturgy and Armenian Rites
Hierarchy
Literature
Art and Architecture
Part V: The St Thomas Christians of South India
21: Historical Survey
Malabar and Its People
The St Thomas Tradition
Pre-Portuguese History
The Portuguese and Romanism
Schisms, Confusions and Solutions
22: Social and Religious Life
Social Setting
Education and the Bible
The Hierarchy
Faith and Rites
Part VI: The Maronite Church
23: Prelude
24: Origins and Development
St Maro and the Age of Legend
St John Maron and the Maronites
The Crusades and Romanization
25: Modern History
Maronites and Druzes: Massacres of the Sixties
The Church, Independence and Nationalism
26: Organization, Faith and Culture
The Hierarchy
Rites and Liturgies
Monasticism
Maronite Culture
Part VII: The Vanished Churches Epilogue
27: The Vanished Churches
Introductory
Carthage
The Pentapolis
Nubia
Advent of Islam: Beginning of the End
28: Epilogue
Select Bibliography
List of Plates
Index

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