The Church of the East and the Church of England a history of the Archbishop of Canterbury's Assyrian Mission
For some thirty years before the First World War, the Church of England maintained a mission of help to the Assyrian Church of the East (popularly known as the Nestorian church) in its then homeland, a corner of eastern Turkey and north-western Persia. The Mission had a controversial history. At hom...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Oxford
Clarendon Press
1992
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Archbishop of Canterbury's Assyrian Mission
> Church of England
> Nestorian Church
> History
> Assyrian Church of the East
> Relations
> Geschichte 1835-1930
> Anglicaanse Kerk
> Assyriërs (christenen)
> Zending
> Geschichte
> Anglican Communion
> Missions to Nestorians
> Oriental Orthodox churches
> Nestorianer
> Anglikanische Kirche
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | For some thirty years before the First World War, the Church of England maintained a mission of help to the Assyrian Church of the East (popularly known as the Nestorian church) in its then homeland, a corner of eastern Turkey and north-western Persia. The Mission had a controversial history. At home, not everyone could appreciate the rationale of a mission which was to aid an obscure and heretical body and which strictly forbade any conversions from this body to the Anglican church In the field, the missionaries had to do battle with xenophobic governments, with rival American and French missions, and with the Assyrians themselves, whose confidence proved difficult to gain. In some respects the Mission was unsuccessful, but it had notable accomplishments, especially in scholarship and in ecumenical diplomacy |
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| Beschreibung: | X, 422 S. Ill. |
| ISBN: | 0198267444 0-19-826744-4 |