Syriac Christianity In The Middle East And India
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Syriac Christianity In The Middle East And India
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Author : Dietmar W Winkler
language : en
Publisher: Gorgias PressLlc
Release Date : 2013
Syriac Christianity In The Middle East And India written by Dietmar W Winkler and has been published by Gorgias PressLlc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Religion categories.
This volume acknowledges the contributions of Syriac Christians in the fields of culture, education and civil society throughout the history in the Middle East and India, and examines the challenges of living and professing the Christian faith as a minority in a multi-religious and pluralistic society, giving special attention to religious freedom and personal status.
Syriac Christianity In The Middle East And India
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Author : Dietmar Winkler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-05-10
Syriac Christianity In The Middle East And India written by Dietmar Winkler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-10 with Syriac Christians categories.
Identity And Witness
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Author : Dietmar W. Winkler
language : en
Publisher: Pro Oriente Studies in the Syriac Tradition
Release Date : 2023
Identity And Witness written by Dietmar W. Winkler and has been published by Pro Oriente Studies in the Syriac Tradition this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with Christians categories.
Identity has become a central theme in a globalised world, both in politics and in the humanities, and the Syrian churches cannot escape it either. Christianity also exists as an identity that can in some ways compete with or even contradict theological understandings as a witness. But how should religious leaders deal with the fact that their churches are as much faith communities as identity markers? This volume does not offer the all-encompassing answer to this central question, but it provides keys for reflection and discussion beyond the circle of clergy and theologians, showing why the Syriac tradition matters for global Christianity. The volume contains contributions by Naures Atto, Bishop Antoine Audo SJ, Sebastian Brock, Mar Theophilose Kuriakose, Archbishop Paul Matar, Philip Nelpuraparambil, Andreas Schmoller, Baby Varghese and Dietmar W. Winkler.
Syriac Christian Culture
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Author : Aaron Michael Butts
language : en
Publisher: CUA Press
Release Date : 2021-01-08
Syriac Christian Culture written by Aaron Michael Butts and has been published by CUA Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-08 with Religion categories.
Syriac Christianity developed in the first centuries CE in the Middle East, where it continued to flourish throughout Late Antiquity and the Medieval period, while also spreading widely, as far as India and China. Today, Syriac Christians are found in the Middle East, in India, as well in diasporas scattered across the globe. Over this extended time period and across this vast geographic expanse, Syriac Christians have built impressive churches and monasteries, crafted fine pieces of art, and written and transmitted a sizable body of literature. Though often overlooked, neglected, and even persecuted, Syriac Christianity has been – and continues to be – an important part of the humanistic heritage of the last two millennia. The present volume brings together fourteen studies that offer fresh perspectives on Syriac Christianity, especially its literary texts and authors. The timeframes of the individual studies span from the second-century Syriac translation of the Hebrew Bible up to the thirteenth century with the end of the Syriac Renaissance. Several studies analyze key authors from Late Antiquity, such as Aphrahat, Ephrem, Narsai, and Jacob of Serugh. Others investigate translations into Syriac, both from Hebrew and from Greek, while still others examine hagiography, especially its formation and transmission. Reflecting a growing trend in the field, the volume also devotes significant attention to the Medieval period, during which Syriac Christians lived under Islamic rule. The studies in the volume are united in their quest to explore the richness, diversity, and vibrance of Syriac Christianity.
Eastern Christianity In The Modern Middle East
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Author : Anthony O'Mahony
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2009-12-16
Eastern Christianity In The Modern Middle East written by Anthony O'Mahony and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-12-16 with Religion categories.
The Middle East is the birthplace of Christianity and the home to a number of Eastern Churches with millions of followers. This book provides a comprehensive survey of the various denominations in the modern Middle East and will be of interest to a wide variety of scholars and students studying theology, history and politics.
Missionary Stories And The Formation Of The Syriac Churches
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Author : Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2015-06-19
Missionary Stories And The Formation Of The Syriac Churches written by Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-19 with Religion categories.
Missionary Stories and the Formation of the Syriac Churches analyzes the hagiographic traditions of seven missionary saints in the Syriac heritage during late antiquity: Thomas, Addai, Mari, John of Ephesus, Simeon of Beth Arsham, Jacob Baradaeus, and Ahudemmeh. Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent studies a body of legends about the missionariesÕ voyages in the Syrian Orient to illustrate their shared symbols and motifs. Revealing how these texts encapsulated the concerns of the communities that produced them, she draws attention to the role of hagiography as a malleable genre that was well-suited for the idealized presentation of the beginnings of Christian communities. Hagiographers, through their reworking of missionary themes, asserted autonomy, orthodoxy, and apostolicity for their individual civic and monastic communities, positioning themselves in relationship to the rulers of their empires and to competing forms of Christianity. Saint-Laurent argues that missionary hagiography is an important and neglected source for understanding the development of the East and West Syriac ecclesiastical bodies: the Syrian Orthodox Church and the Church of the East. Given that many of these Syriac-speaking churches remain today in the Middle East and India, with diaspora communities in Europe and North America, this work opens the door for further study of the role of saints and stories as symbolic links between ancient and modern traditions.
Christianity In Iraq
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Author : Suha Rassam
language : en
Publisher: Gracewing Publishing
Release Date : 2005
Christianity In Iraq written by Suha Rassam and has been published by Gracewing Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
Christianity was firmly established in Iraq from the earliest times, and the Churches of Iraq were to play a major role in the development of Christian theology and spirituality for many centuries. By the seventh century evangelization from Iraq had brought Christianity to China, Central Asia and India. Yet few people in the West are aware of Christianity's vibrant past in this region, or of the fact that Christianity has continued to be a significant cultural and religious presence in Iraq right up to the present day. The story of the Churches of Iraq, their interaction with each other and their varied fortunes under successive Parthian, Sassanid, Arab, Mongol and Ottoman rule, is told here with consummate skill. Suha Rassam guides the reader seemingly effortlessly through complex issues of doctrinal dispute and ecclesiastical politics. She helps us explore the ancient heritage of these Churches, and the major contribution they have made to the intellectual development of the region and the wider world. Suha Rassam's book comes to fill a large vacuum in the knowledge of those in the West, many of whom are still not aware of the fact that from ancient times Christianity was firmly rooted in Iraq and the rest of the territory now seen as the 'Arab Middle East'. Archbishop Mikhael Al Jamil, Patriarchal Vicar of the Syrian Catholic Church of Antioch to the Holy See and Vicar Apostolic for Europe Dr Suha Rassam has written a work of remarkable scholarship. But is is also a vivid portrayal of an extraordinary story of conflict, persecution and, for fifty years in the twentieth century, of hope, harmony and prosperity for the Christian community in Iraq. It would be a tragedy if that Christian community were now extinguished. Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, Archbishop of Westminster Gives to the general interested public a comprehensive and informed insight into two thousand years of Christianity in Iraq. Dr Erica Hunter, School of Oriental and African Studies, London University
Syriac Encounters
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Author : Maria Doerfler
language : fr
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Syriac Encounters written by Maria Doerfler and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Syria categories.
The Sixth North American Syriac Symposium brought together scholars from across North America, Europe, the Middle East, and India. Syriac Encounters offers twenty-five papers that were originally delivered at the Symposium, a, nd represents a cross-section of both the Symposium and the current state of Syriac studies more broadly. Although most of the papers in the volume focus on the late antique heyday of Syriac Christianity, several papers contribute to the study of other, related fields, including Islamic studies and Middle Eastern anthropology. The blossoming of Syriac studies beyond church historians and Semitic philologists can be attributed to a wider recognition of Syriac as a bridge language and culture linking (and fostering encounters between) Rome and Persia, Byzantium and Baghdad, and Christianity and Islam.
Thinking About Christian Life In The Turmoil Times Of The Middle East
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Author : Martin Tamcke
language : en
Publisher: Göttingen University Press
Release Date : 2020
Thinking About Christian Life In The Turmoil Times Of The Middle East written by Martin Tamcke and has been published by Göttingen University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Christianity categories.
"Studies in the Middle East" is a one-year programme at the Near East School of Theology in Beirut (NEST). In honour of its 20th anniversary, academics and teachers from the NEST and from Germany met at Georg-August University in Göttingen and in the nearby Coptic Orthodox Monastery in Höxter-Brenkhausen to discuss the current situation in the Middle East and possible ways to initiate a spiritual new beginning in this crisis and war-ridden region. The present volume offers various contributions that were made on the subject.
The Rowman Littlefield Handbook Of Christianity In The Middle East
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Author : Mitri Raheb
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2020-12-15
The Rowman Littlefield Handbook Of Christianity In The Middle East written by Mitri Raheb and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-15 with Religion categories.
This work represents the current and most relevant content on the studies of how Christianity has fared in the ancient home of its founder and birth. Much has been written about Christianity and how it has survived since its migration out of its homeland but this comprehensive reference work reassesses the geographic and demographic impact of the dramatic changes in this perennially combustible world region. The Rowman & Littlefield Handbook of Christianity in the Middle East also spans the historical, socio-political and contemporary settings of the region and importantly describes the interactions that Christianity has had with other major/minor religions in the region.