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A History of Christianity in Asia, Volume I: Beginnings to 1500
by: Samuel Hugh Moffett
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Condition: New
Binding: Paper Back
Author: Samuel Hugh Moffett
Publisher: Orbis Books (April 1998)
ISBN: 1570751625
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Moffett (ecumenics, emeritus, Princeton Theological Seminary) begins a thorough and scholarly recounting of a neglected dimension of church history the story of Christianity in the East, where the gospel of Jesus Christ was 'sown by different sowers;...planted in different soil;...grew with a differ
With the publication of this book, we no longer have excuse to remain ignorant of the forgotten third world of Christendom, that of Syria, Persia, India, central Asia and China. At one time this Eastern Christianity (since Moffett considers Byzantine Orthodoxy to be relatively Western) rivaled or surpassed Rome and Constantinople in extent and antiquity. Moffett explores the roots of the ''Thomas Christians'' of India, the legends of King Abgar of Edessa, the encounter of Christianity with Manichaeism and Zoroastrianism in Persia, the Nestorian schism, the Christian kingdoms of Arabia, the clash of Christianity with early Islam, and finally the strange, intriguing presence of Christianity in China centuries before Matteo Ricci and St. Francis Xavier. Truly a work of admirable erudition and research, with extensive notes and bibliography. 560 pp.
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