The Syrians

The Unknown Oriental Christians

Syriac Christianity is largely unfamiliar among Christians of the Western traditions. The present volume seeks to rectify this unfamiliarity by providing two brief introductory essays to the Syriac traditions.

Publisher: Gorgias Press LLC

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SKU (ISBN): 978-1-61143-242-8

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Series: Bar Ebroyo Kloster Publications 48

Publication Date: Feb 13,2012

Interior Color: Black

Trim Size: 6 x 9

Page Count: 100

Language: German

ISBN: 978-1-61143-242-8

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Despite their status as one of the oldest traditions within Christianity, very little is known of Syriac Christianity among Christians of the West. This lack of knowledge is the result of various historical circumstances: linguistic divide between Greek/Latin and Syriac, theological and ecclesiastical division after the Council of Chalcedon, and political division, first between the late Roman and Persian Empires, and then between the Byzantine and Arab/Muslim Empires. All of these factors combined to result in the omission of the Syriac traditions from the narrative of Church History in the West. The present volume seeks to rectify this lack of familiarity by providing a basic introduction to the Syriac tradition of Christianity. This volume contains two separate historical surveys, the first by Andreas Heinz and the second by Jean-Maurice Fiey. The volume contains the text of two ecclesiastical documents demonstrating the participation of Syriac Christians in ecumenical dialogue in the twentieth century and concludes with a series of photographs and bibliography for further research.

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	Andreas Heinz
	Jean-Maurice Fiey

INHALT (page 5)
Geleitwort des Syrisch-Orthodoxen Erzbischofs von Mitteleuropa (page 9)
Vorwort (page 12)
ERSTER TEIL Syrer. Eine Erstinformation (page 14)
ZWEITER TEIL Die Syrer in Geschichte und Gegenwart von J.-M. Fiey OP (page 32)
ANHANG (page 55)

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