The Assyrian Church of the East: History and Geography

ISBN-13: 9781789979121 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 196 str.

Christine Chaillot

Opis

In this book, the reader is invited to travel in time and space and undertake the fascinating discovery of a very ancient apostolic Church, the Church of the East, whose two-thousand year history constitutes an indispensable chapter in the history of the universal Church.

Spis treści

CONTENTS: A History of the Church of the East: Origins to the Eighteenth Century - In Arabia and the Persian Gulf - In India - In Central Asia and Beyond. On the Silk Road - In China under the Tang (635- 845) and the Mongols (1206- 1368) - Under the Mongols (1206- 1368) and Tamerlane (1370- 1405) - The Nineteenth Century - The Twentieth Century - The Twenty- First Century around the World. The Diaspora.

O autorze

Christine Chaillot is the author of numerous articles and books on the Oriental Churches in the fields of history, theology and spirituality, notably Vie et spiritualité des Églises orthodoxes orientales des traditions syriaque, arménienne, copte et éthiopienne (Le Cerf, Paris, 2010), The Orthodox Church in Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century (Peter Lang, Oxford, 2011), and Les Coptes d'Égypte. Discriminations et persécutions (1970-2011) (L'Harmattan, Paris, 2014). Her books have been translated into eleven languages.