A History of Eastern Christianity (Routledge Revivals)

✍ Scribed by Aziz S. Atiya

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 517
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A History of Eastern Christianity (1968) is a scholarly and comprehensive account of the history of the non-Greek churches of Eastern Christendom. Alexandrine and Antiochian Christianity, with their ramifications in Africa and Asia, are the subjects of an overall survey that ranges from their origins to modern times. The author deals with every Eastern Church, Coptic, Ethiopian, Jacobite, Nestorian, Armenian, Indian and Maronite, as well as the vanished churches of Nubia and North Africa. He gives a preliminary outline of each church, followed by an analytical summary of the faith and culture. He deals not only with the hierarchy, rites, ceremonials and monastic rule, but also with music, art, architecture and literature.

✦ 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