You have no items in your shopping cart.
Close
Search
Filters

History of Eastern Christianity

This book is a classic in the history of the Oriental Churches, which are sometimes portrayed as heretical in general church history books, if mentioned at all. Written by a Copt, it portrays the history of the faith of these non-Chalcedonian Churches with first-hand knowledge of their traditions. The author covers Alexandrine Christianity (the Copts and the Ethiopians), the Church of Antioch (Syriac Orthodox), the “Nestorian” Church of the East, the Armenian Church, the St. Thomas Christians of South India, the Maronite Church, as well as the Vanished Churches of Carthage, Pentapolis, and Nubia.
Publisher: Gorgias Press LLC
Availability: In stock
SKU (ISBN): 978-1-60724-343-4
  • *
Publication Status: In Print
Publication Date: Jan 22,2010
Interior Color: Black
Trim Size: 6 x 9
Page Count: 512
Languages: English
ISBN: 978-1-60724-343-4
$230.00
Your price: $161.00
Ship to
*
*
Shipping Method
Name
Estimated Delivery
Price
No shipping options

Aziz S. Atiya’s History of Eastern Christianity is a classic in the history of the Oriental Churches, which are sometimes portrayed as heretics in books on general church history, if indeed mentioned at all. Written by a Copt, it portrays the history of the faith of these non-Chalcedonian Churches with first-hand knowledge of their traditions. The author covers Alexandrine Christianity (the Copts and the Ethiopians), the Church of Antioch (Syriac Orthodox), the “Nestorian” Church of the East, the Armenian Church, the St. Thomas Christians of South India, the Maronite Church, as well as the Vanished Churches of Carthage, Pentapolis, and Nubia. This book is essential reading for every student of Eastern Christianity.

Aziz S. Atiya’s History of Eastern Christianity is a classic in the history of the Oriental Churches, which are sometimes portrayed as heretics in books on general church history, if indeed mentioned at all. Written by a Copt, it portrays the history of the faith of these non-Chalcedonian Churches with first-hand knowledge of their traditions. The author covers Alexandrine Christianity (the Copts and the Ethiopians), the Church of Antioch (Syriac Orthodox), the “Nestorian” Church of the East, the Armenian Church, the St. Thomas Christians of South India, the Maronite Church, as well as the Vanished Churches of Carthage, Pentapolis, and Nubia. This book is essential reading for every student of Eastern Christianity.

Write your own review
  • Only registered users can write reviews
*
*
Bad
Excellent
*
*
*
*
Contributor

AzizAtiya

  • CONTENTS (page 7)
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS (page 11)
  • MAPS (page 12)
  • PREFACE (page 13)
  • 1.INTRODUCTORY (page 29)
  • 2.ORIGINS OF COPTIC CHRISTIANITY (page 41)
  • 3.THE COPTS AND THE WORLD (page 65)
  • 4.AFTERMATH OF CHALCEDON (page 85)
  • 5.THE COPTS UNDER ARAB RULE (page 95)
  • 6.MODERN TIMES (page 115)
  • 7.COPTIC FAITH AND CULTURE (page 138)
  • 8.THE ETHIOPIANS (page 162)
  • 9.ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT (page 185)
  • 10.THE JACOBITES IN HISTORY (page 209)
  • 11.FAITH AND CULTURE (page 235)
  • 12.ORIGINS AND DEVELOPMENT (page 267)
  • 13.EXPANSION OF THE NESTORIAN CHURCH (page 285)
  • 14.THE NESTORIANS AND THE CALIPHATE (page 295)
  • 15.THE NESTORIANS IN MODERN TIMES (page 305)
  • 16.FAITH AND CULTURE (page 317)
  • 17.INTRODUCTION (page 333)
  • 18.ORIGINS AND DEVELOPMENT OF ARMENIAN CHRISTIANITY (page 343)
  • 19.TIMES OF TRIAL (page 357)
  • 20.ARMENIAN FAITH AND CULTURE (page 370)
  • 21.HISTORICAL SURVEY (page 387)
  • 22.SOCIAL AND RELIGIOUS LIFE (page 404)
  • 23.PRELUDE (page 419)
  • 24.ORIGINS AND DEVELOPMENT (page 422)
  • 25.MODERN HISTORY (page 432)
  • 26.ORGANIZATION,FAITH AND CULTURE (page 440)
  • 27.THE VANISHED CHURCHES (page 455)
  • 28.EPILOGUE (page 468)
  • SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY (page 475)
  • PLATES (page 483)
  • INDEX (page 485)
Customers who bought this item also bought
Picture of A Mesopotamian Miscellany

A Mesopotamian Miscellany

Drawn from Akkadian and Sumerian tablets in the Yale Babylonian Collection, many of them previously unpublished, this collection of readings brings to life the vibrancy of ancient Mesopotamian literature, beyond its better-known myths and epics.
$65.00 $52.00
ImageFromGFF

Myth, Text, and History at Sparta

Three studies that offer close readings concerning the interaction of the source material on Spartan history with the unfolding of actual historical events. These contributions take the position that not only political, but also social, policies at Sparta, as well as the historical actors giving them shape, were intensely─and to an unusual degree─influenced by myth, tradition, and popular memory about the Laconian past.
$170.00
Picture of The Aqaba Khans and the Origin of Khans in Jordan

The Aqaba Khans and the Origin of Khans in Jordan

A diachronic study of the development of Aqaba castle, an important Islamic khan at the junction of two major pilgrim routes, both based on Arabic and Crusader sources and the results of the excavations undertaken by Ghent University in Aqaba.
$208.00
Picture of Death and Burial in Iron Age Israel, Aram, and Phoenicia

Death and Burial in Iron Age Israel, Aram, and Phoenicia

Death and Burial uses archaeological and textual evidence to examine death and burial in Iron Age Israel and Aram. Despite dramatic differences in the religious systems of these peoples, this monograph demonstrates striking connections between their basic material and psychological frameworks for dealing with death.
$182.00