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	Syriac Christianity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The early literature of Syriac Christianity include the Diatessaron of Tatian (most probably), the Peshitta Bible, the Doctrine of Addai and the writings of Aphrahat and the hymns of Ephrem the Syrian.
		Ctesiphon, the Persian capital, became the capital of the Church of the East.
		Syriac Christians were involved in the mission to India, and many of the ancient churches of India are in communion with their Syriac cousins.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Syrian_Christian (440 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Middle East \| Syrian Christians have faith in Muslim world
		The Middle East might be the birthplace of Christianity, but the number of Christians in the region is dwindling rapidly.
		Christians - mostly Greek Orthodox - make up 10% of the population and have a tacit alliance with another minority, the Alawites, who have ruled the country since the late Hafez al-Assad took power in 1970.
		That reminded Christians that their position was still a precarious one despite the general harmony that has returned today.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/middle_east/2604573.stm (690 words)

	Church of the East in India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The East Syrian liturgy and the Mesopotamian connection of the St. Thomas Christians laid them open to suspicion of Nestorianism and Archbishop Menezes of Goa, who arrived in Kerala in December 1598 was determined to bring them into the Latin way of worship.
		The significant contribution of the Church of the East in India as far as the Syriac literature is concerned, is two-fold.
		The Church of the East in India is using the Liturgy of Addai and Mari.
	www.nestorian.org /church_of_the_east_in_india.html (4445 words)

	Christianity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Christianity is a religion based upon the belief that the Bible contains a divine message and that Jesus (who died between 25 and 40 CE) represents a new orientation in the relationship between man and God.
		As the Christians saw it, Jesus' main task was to prepare for the forthcoming apocalypse and the end of Satan's influence in the world.
		In most of the churches in North Africa and the Middle East, many rituals are performed by the clergy for the benefit of all members of the congregation.
	i-cias.com /e.o/christia.htm (2044 words)

	Christology
		the Syrian Church of Antioch, the Latin Church of Rome, the Coptic Church of Alexandria and the Byzantine Church of Constantinople.
		They split from the Syrian church of Antioch and established themselves a center of leadership in Madaen, Iraq, and later on, to Baghdad in 762 A.D. Until recently, their church was known as "the Syrian church of the East", or the "Syrian Nestorian Church", which in the 2Oth century changed to "the Assyrian church".
		The Patriarch convened a Universal Synod of the Syrian Orthodox Church in 1975 and excommunicated the Catholicose Augen I. Consequently the Malankara Jacobite Syrian Orthodox Church elected Mor Philexinos Paulose as the new Catholicose-designate and in 1975 and he was ordained as Catholicose Mor Baselios Paulose II for the Indian Church for the Bava kakshi.
	www.gsbkerala.com /christ/christian.htm (13933 words)

	Kerala: Asia's Cradle of Christianity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In short, the St. Thomas Christians of Kerala had blended well the ecclesiastical world of the East Syrian Church with the socio-cultural environment of their homeland.
		Thus, the East Syrian Church was Hindu in culture, Christian in religion and Syro-Oriental in worship.
		This, indeed, was the Golden Age of the East Syrian Church.
	www.indianembassy.org /new/NewDelhiPressFile/kerala_christianity.html (903 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In theyear 484 Nestorian theology was declared by the Synod of Beth Papat inPersia as the official theology of the East Syrian Church.
		From this dateon, one can accurately designate the East Syrian Church as "Nestorian."However, the term "Nestorian" was applied to it only at a laterdate (19th Century), by Roman Catholics, to convey the stigma of differencesin contradistinction to those who joined the Catholic Church as Uniatsand received the name Chaldeans.
		And there was, on the otherhand, the western branch of the Syrian Church with its God-man Christologyand its exaltation of the Virgin to the celestial rank, and which was comparativelylacking in missionary endeavour.
	www.al-bushra.org /arbhrtg/arbxtn05.htm (1091 words)

	Assyrian Church of the East - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East under His Holiness Mar Dinkha IV is a Christian church that traces its origins to the See of Seleucia-Ctesiphon, said to be founded by Saint Thomas the Apostle as well as Saint_Mari and Addai as evidenced in the Doctrine of Addai.
		At a subsequent Council of Seleucia-Ctesiphon in 410 the Christian communities of Mesopotamia renounced all subjection to Antioch and the "Western" bishops and the Bishop of Seleucia-Ctesiphon assumed the rank of Catholicos.
		During the Nineteenth Century, Christians in Trichur again sought the ordination of a native bishop under authority of the Church of the East.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Assyrian_church_of_the_East (2721 words)

	Religious - Christian - Middle East Areas Adjacent to the Balkan Peninsula and the Caucasus Region (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East, Damascus, Syria.
		Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of Byblos and Botrys (Mount Lebanon).
		The Antiochian Orthodox Christian Church - Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East.
	learning.lib.vt.edu /slav/relig_chr_mideast.html (4563 words)

	\|\| Indian Christianity \|\| (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In the Synod of Diamper in June 1599, Archbishop Alexio de Menezes forced the Syrian Christian community to be under the obedience of the Pope of Rome.
		On 17 October 1976 Mar Dinkha was consecrated as the Patriarch of the universal Assyrian Church of the East.
		Like the other Syrian Christian denominations of Kerala, the Chaldean Syrians of Trichur claim to be the faithful descendants of the first century converts of St. Thomas.
	www.indianchristianity.org /assyrian.html (3567 words)

	Christianity - Latin heresies and the Orthodox alternative (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		"Christian influence reinforced this decline in the ubiquitous employment of Greek by elevating Latin and Syriac as the medium of churches in the West and a large part of the East Mediterranean respectively.
		Christianity, while universal in its mission, has tended in practice to be associated with three cultures: the Semitic, the Greek, and the Latin.
		Christianity had developed as a powerless sect within a hostile state, and had then been taken up as the official ideology of that state.
	members.aol.com /BevinSoc/Orthoxod.htm (5150 words)

	Filioque - OrthodoxWiki
		Unlike the East, however, where iconoclasm was repudiated at the Seventh Ecumenical Council and the use of icons later confirmed by the Empress Theodora, the West to date never recovered from its departure.
		Since the general consensus of the Fathers was held to be reliable, as a witness to common faith, the Western usage was held not to be a heresy and not a barrier to restoration of full communion.
		However, because of the historical situation and because of the different ecclesiologies of the East and West—in the East, the whole Church is seen as the guardian of faith, while for the West, the Magisterium maintains the faith—this resolution was neither fully received nor permanently sustained.
	orthodoxwiki.org /Filioque (3469 words)

	AYDIN: Abstracts of Papers Presented at the IVth Syriac Symposium at Princeton, July 9-13, 2003
		Christians, Jews and Muslims have lived together for centuries, sometimes in concord, at other times in conflict. One of the most tense periods for these communities was in the twelfth century, following the impact of the Crusades which upset the delicate balance of communities in the Middle East.
		In the same period, the Church of the East became open to the influence of the Roman Catholic Church, which led to a number of unions, the first of which was initiated by the monk Yuhannan Sulaqa in 1553.
		[71] The fortunes of the two Christian Semitic peoples in the Fertile Crescent, the Aramaeans and the Arabs, were interlocked in many ways. One was their domination by the two world powers, Persia and Byzantium, hostile to their Christianity, the former Zoroastrian and the latter still pagan.
	syrcom.cua.edu /hugoye/Vol7No1/HV7N1IVSyriacSymAbstracts.html (7514 words)

	EASTERN CHRISTIANITY ON THE EVE OF ISLAM
		The Christian Byzantines were autocratic in their rule and oppressed the population with heavy taxation.
		From this date on, one can accurately designate the East Syrian Church as "Nestorian." However, the term "Nestorian" was applied to it only at a later date (19th Century), by Roman Catholics, to convey the stigma of differences in contradistinction to those who joined the Catholic Church as Uniats and received the name Chaldeans.
		With all their interest in Greek learning the two estranged sister Syrian Churches of the East and the West arose and developed largely as a reaction of the Syrian society against the Hellenising influences of Byzantium and Rome.
	www.ewtn.com /library/chistory/eveislam.htm (1410 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: East Syrian Rite
		The last call themselves "Syrians" (Surayi), and even "Christians" only, though they do not repudiate the name "Nestorayi", and distinguish themselves from the rest of Christendom as the "Church of the East" or "Easterns", as opposed to "Westerns", by which they denote Latin Catholics, Orthodox, Monophysites, and Protestants.
		In 498 the catholicos assumed the title of "Patriarch of the East", and for many centuries this most successful missionary church continued to spread throughout Persia, Tartary, Mongolia, China, India, developing on lines of its own, very little influenced by the rest of Christendom.
		The nearest approch to Penance among the Nestorians is a form, counted as a sacrament, for the reconciliation of apostates and excommunicated persons, prayers from which are occasionally used in cases of other penitents.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/14413a.htm (4132 words)

	Nestorian Christianity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Nestorius is believed to have asserted that Christ was composed of two persons, God the Son and the man Jesus and that it was only the man Jesus who was born of the Virgin Mary and who died on the cross.
		It is important to note that Nestorian Christianity spread throughout central Asia and that many Turkic and Mongol tribes were exposed to it, and/or had followers of the faith.
		The church was further weakened as a result of the Mongol invasions of the 14th century and schisms in the 16th century which led many Nestorian Christians to join the Roman Catholic Church.
	www.kipchak.com /interested/NestorianChristianity.html (822 words)

	Eastern and Western Rites in the Catholic Church: Vicariate Apostolic of Kuwait
		Syrian Christians who retired into the mountains of Lebanon for protection against political and religious enemies.
		The Church of Alexandria in Egypt was one of the original centers of Christianity, since like Rome and Antioch it had a large Jewish population, which was the initial object of apostolic evangelization.
		The use of English is widespread in the United States in all usages of the Byzantine Rite.
	www.catholic-church.org /kuwait/east_west_rites.htm (3182 words)

	©´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·-The St. Johns ...
		Christianity in Kerala was established in the year 52 AD by the Holy Apostle of Christ, St. Thomas.
		It is East Syrian in Origin due to it's association with the Persian Church from the third to the Fifteenth Century.
		The Head of the Synod and the Supreme Head of the Church is the Malankara Metropolitan and the Catholicos of the East.
	www.geocities.com /mgocsm_stjohns/OCmain.htm (570 words)

	East Syrian Rite
		The language of all three forms of the East Syrian Rite is Syriac, a modern form of which is still spoken by the Nestorians and some of the Catholics.
		At the end of the fourteenth century the conquests of Tamerlane all but destroyed this flourishing Church at one blow, reduced it to a few small communities in Persia, Turkey in Asia, Cyprus, South India, and the Island of Socotra.
		As in all liturgies this begins with a form of a Sursum corda, but the East Syrian form is more elaborate than any other, especially in the Anaphora of Theodore.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/p/persian_rite.html (4124 words)

	Links
		Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch, maintained by the Archdiocese of the Eastern USA.
		The Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch, maintained by Theodora, Touma and Tomayess Issa, Australia.
		The Paul van Moorsel Centre for Christian Art and Culture in the Middle East (The institute sponsors a research project, "The formation of a communal identity among West Syrian Christians (451-1300)" and seminars on Syriac Orthodox Christianity.
	sor.cua.edu /Links/index.html (393 words)

	THE EASTERN CATHOLIC CHURCHES
		The liturgy is of the East Syrian or Chaldean rite.
		The majority of Christians in Egypt are Coptic Orthodox, as the majority of the Copts rejected the Council of Chalcedon's teaching in 451, and formed the Coptic Oriental Orthodox Church.
		Byelorussia, east of Poland, became Belarus with the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991.
	maryourmother.net /Eastern.html (4621 words)

	East 2 West - General
		We have suffered intensely for the sake of Christian unity, and this has not gone unnoticed by Jesus.
		Almost all of the Russian Orthodox and OCA Christians in North America today are descended from Byzantine Catholics.
		However, in many cases these persons are not content with Eastern Christian liturgy and spirituality, but are longing for the Tridentine Mass and Latin spirituality.
	www.east2west.org /general.htm (4024 words)

	ORTHODOXY AND HERESY IN EARLIEST CHRISTIANITY
		I should prefer that term to "orthodoxy." And although it took the Church long to express that sense of the Centre, yet it was not absent from the early controversies.
		Marcionism as the truncation of the Christian faith to a mere fragment,.
		Ehrhardt's lengthy article on "Christianity before the Apostles' Creed"[13] attempts to show that in the early period, "the unity of Christianity was not preserved by outward means.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /~humm/Resources/Bauer/bauer_a2.htm (9518 words)

	WORKS ON CHRISTIANITY IN THE EAST
		The Ascetical Homilies of Saint Isaac the Syrian
		Nicholas Sims-Williams, “Sogdian and Turkish Christians in the Turfan and Tun-Huang Manuscripts”
		Heleen H.L. Murre-van den Berg, The Patriarchs of the East from the Fifteenth to the Eighteenth Centuries
	darkwing.uoregon.edu /~sshoemak/407/bibliography.htm (1101 words)

	East of the Euphrates: Early Christianity in Asia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		East of the Euphrates: Early Christianity in Asia
		East of the Euphrates: Early Christianity in Asia by T.V. Philip
		Philip, born in India and a lay member of the Mar Thoma Church, has worked and taught in India, Europe, USA and Australia.
	www.religion-online.org /showchapter.asp?title=1553&C=1361 (85 words)

	SyrCom Links
		Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East (U.S.A.)
		Phoenicia and the Forgotten Christians of the East (U.S.A.)
		East Syrian Christian Monument in Hsi-an, China with the James Legge translation
	syrcom.cua.edu /Links/index.html (148 words)

	Religion
		A brief introduction to three of the earliest forms of Christianity in the Middle East: the Coptic Orthodox Church of Egypt, The Syrian Orthodox Church, and the Maronite Catholic Church of Lebanon.
		An article about Palestinian Christians from Christian Today.
		Judaism in the Modern Age (by University of Calgary)
	www.albany.edu /history/middle-east/religion.htm (147 words)

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