In the Christian East, the pastoral manuals of the Church took a literary form known as -Questions/Answers.- The authors of these canonical works were bishops and priests who usually wrote to guide clergy in addressing issues arising from diocesan and parish life. Unlike any of these other guides, in the present work an entire church subject to Islamic persecution sought the counsel of its sole Eastern sister church that was free from Muslim conquest. This pastoral guide for a church under Islam sets forth a pattern meant for a patriarchate to apply in addressing issues arising in a...
In the Christian East, the pastoral manuals of the Church took a literary form known as -Questions/Answers.- The authors of these canonical works w...
