| | TOEPEL: Book Review - Mar Aprem Mooken, The Assyrian Church of the East in the Twentieth Century. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | [1] In spite of its comparative proximity the modern history of the Church of the East remains one of the underdeveloped fields in the study of Eastern Christianity. |
 | | Since Assyrian church history prior to World War I took place within the framework of the Ottoman Empire and its policies towards religious minorities, a knowledge of the millet system is necessary for understanding some peculiarities of this church's history in the 1920's and 30's. |
 | | In this respect the Anglican determination to preserve the Church in the East in its original state rather appears as an attempt to keep it from falling under Presbyterian, Catholic or Russian Orthodox sway and the influence of the countries behind these churches, namely the United States, France and Russia. |
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