Preface / by Sebastian Brock -- 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 Mon…
"The cradle of the Church of the East was in Mesopotamia (between the Tigris and the Euphrates), where it developed its first centre at Seleucia-Ctesiphon, then the capital of the great Persian Empire and today an archaeological site to the south of Baghdad. From the very beginn…
"The cradle of the Church of the East was in Mesopotamia (between the Tigris and the Euphrates), where it developed its first centre at Seleucia-Ctesiphon, then the capital of the great Persian Empire and today an archaeological site to the south of Baghdad. From the very beginn…
"This book demonstrates the presence in these very ancient Eastern Churches of religious images of all kinds (icons, paintings, illuminations), including the respresentation of Christ, together with the veneration (not the adoration) of icons/images. Presented here are not only …
"This book demonstrates the presence in these very ancient Eastern Churches of religious images of all kinds (icons, paintings, illuminations), including the respresentation of Christ, together with the veneration (not the adoration) of icons/images. Presented here are not only …