Is monastic profession in the West-Syriac tradition a "second baptism"? A relationship clearly exists between the two rites of initiation - Monastic profession and baptism - in the West-Syriac tradition. Mor Polycarpus Edip Aydin examines these two rites of initiation, comparing…
Is monastic profession in the West-Syriac tradition a ?second baptism?? A relationship clearly exists between the two rites of initiation in the West-Syriac tradition: the monastic profession and baptism. Aydin examines these two rites of initiation, comparing their external str…
"This text is one of the few surviving eyewitness sources on the Assyrian genocide, written by a seminarian living in greater Tur Abdin (the southeast of today’s Turkish state). The perspective is one that is little known and less discussed. Translated and annotated by a master …
"This book considers how Christians adopted the governmental practices and political thought of their Muslim rulers. It explores how this encounter produced an Islamicate Christianity, that differed from the Christianities of Byzantium and western Europe in far more than just th…
Lay Elites under Arab Rule -- Patriarchs and Bishops -- Tithes, Authority and Hierarchy -- Changing Centres of Power : Harran, Kakushta and Cyrrhus -- Takrit and Mosul : the Jacobite east -- World Views and Communal Boundaries -- Dionysius and al-Maʼmun -- Patriarchate and Imama…
"This book considers how Christians adopted the governmental practices and political thought of their Muslim rulers. It explores how this encounter produced an Islamicate Christianity, that differed from the Christianities of Byzantium and western Europe in far more than just th…
"This book considers how Christians adopted the governmental practices and political thought of their Muslim rulers. It explores how this encounter produced an Islamicate Christianity, that differed from the Christianities of Byzantium and western Europe in far more than just th…
Günel, Aziz; Syrian Orthodox Church; biography.
"The voluminous Chronicle of Michael the Great, Syriac Orthodox patriarch from 1166 to 1199, covers human and ecclesiastical histories, stretching from the biblical account of the Creation to the year 1195. The current edition and translation of Books XV to XXI, based on the 16t…
