The Eastern Churches Trilogy: The Lesser Eastern Churches

Adrian Fortescue

• Publisher: Gorgias Press
• Year: 2001
• eBook ISBN: 9781463207700
• Edition: 1

Part of a classic trilogy on Oriental Christianity that had a ground-breaking effect in bringing an awareness of the broader Christian world to Westerners. It remains the most readable and authoritative source on the churches to the east of Rome. This volume is on the Non-Chalcedonian Orthodox Churches (Syriac, Coptic, Armenian and Ethiopean).

Table of contents

• PREFACE
• CONTENTS
• ILLUSTRATIONS
• PART I. THE NESTORIANS
• CHAPTER I. OF THE LESSER EASTERN CHURCHES IN GENERAL
• CHAPTER II. THE EAST SYRIAN CHURCH BEFORE NESTORIANISM
• CHAPTER III. NESTORIANISM
• CHAPTER IV. THE NESTOEIAN CHURCH IN THE PAST
• CHAPTER V. THE PRESENT NESTORIAN CHURCH
• PART II. THE COPTS
• CHAPTER VI. MONOPHYSISM
• CHAPTER VII. THE COPTIC CHURCH IN THE PAST
• CHAPTER VIII. THE COPTS IN OUR TIME
• PART III. THE ABYSSINIANS, JACOBITES, AND MALABAR CHRISTIANS
• CHAPTER IX. THE ABYSSINIAN CHURCH
• CHAPTER X. THE JACOBITES
• CHAPTER XI. THE CHURCH OF MALABAR
• PART IV. THE ARMENIANS
• CHAPTER XII. THE ARMENIAN CHURCH IN THE PAST
• CHAPTER XIII. THE ARMENIAN CHURCH TO-DAY
• CHAPTER XIV. THE HOPE OF REUNION
• INDEX