In the present work, De Syrorum Orientalium Erroribus, Auctore P. Francisco Ros S.I.: A Latin-Syriac Treatise from Early Modern Malabar (1586), Antony Mecherry S.J. brings to the fore a recently identified sixteenth-century treatise on ‘Nestorianism’ written by Francisco Ros S.J. (1559–1624), a Catalonian from the Jesuit province of Aragón, who successfully promoted the mission praxis of accommodatio primarilyamong the Saint Thomas Christians of early modern Malabar in South India. This newly discovered first treatise composed by Ros, a Latin missionary, represents the initial phase of his mission as a polemicist in the making, who read the Syriac sources of the Church of the East found in Malabar, through a Catholic theological lens. In addition to exploring the underlying conflicts emerged out of an unprecedented encounter of apparently unlike theological and liturgical identities in the same mission field of early modern India, this book provides the readers with a historiographical critique against the backdrop of which the author presents his analysis of the Rosian treatise.
Preface.................................................................................... vii
Acknowledgements ................................................................. xix
Abbreviations and Conventional Signs .................................... xxi
Chapter One. Introduction ........................................................ 1
Critical appraisal of Castets’ introduction to De Erroribus ..... 2
Critical appraisal of Hausherr’s introduction to De Erroribus ... 12
De Syrorum Orientalium Erroribus (1586) .......................... 21
On the title of De Syrorum Orientalium Erroribus ............... 21
On the linguistic approach in T ....................................... 21
On the presentation of the scriptural sources in T ............ 24
The other Syriac sources in T........................................... 25
A general comment on the edition of T ............................ 26
Chapter Two. Translation Strategy Adopted in the Rosian
Treatises .......................................................................... 29
Chapter Three. De Syrorum Orientalium Erroribus: Edition of the
Treatise ........................................................................... 55
Chapter Four. Impact of the Rosian treatises ........................... 95
Bibliography ......................................................................... 111
Manuscripts ................................................................... 111
Primary Sources (Published).......................................... 111
Secondary Sources ......................................................... 115
Appendices ........................................................................... 119
General Index ....................................................................... 123
