Languages and Cultures of Eastern Christianity: Greek

Languages and Cultures of Eastern Christianity: Greek
Title Languages and Cultures of Eastern Christianity: Greek PDF eBook
Author Scott Fitzgerald Johnson
Publisher Routledge
Pages 627
Release 2017-05-15
Genre History
ISBN 1351923234

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This volume brings together a set of fundamental contributions, many translated into English for this publication, along with an important introduction. Together these explore the role of Greek among Christian communities in the late antique and Byzantine East (late Roman Oriens), specifically in the areas outside of the immediate sway of Constantinople and imperial Asia Minor. The local identities based around indigenous eastern Christian languages (Syriac, Coptic, Armenian, Georgian, etc.) and post-Chalcedonian doctrinal confessions (Miaphysite, Church of the East, Melkite, Maronite) were solidifying precisely as the Byzantine polity in the East was extinguished by the Arab conquests of the seventh century. In this multilayered cultural environment, Greek was a common social touchstone for all of these Christian communities, not only because of the shared Greek heritage of the early Church, but also because of the continued value of Greek theological, hagiographical, and liturgical writings. However, these interactions were dynamic and living, so that the Greek of the medieval Near East was itself transformed by such engagement with eastern Christian literature, appropriating new ideas and new texts into the Byzantine repertoire in the process.

Languages and Cultures of Eastern Christianity: Georgian

Languages and Cultures of Eastern Christianity: Georgian
Title Languages and Cultures of Eastern Christianity: Georgian PDF eBook
Author Stephen H. Rapp
Publisher Routledge
Pages 408
Release 2018-10-24
Genre Religion
ISBN 1351923269

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This volume brings together a set of key studies on the history and culture of Christian Georgia, along with a substantial new introduction. The opening section sets the regional context, in relation to the Byzantine empire in particular, while subsequent parts deal with the conversion and christianization of the country, the making of a 'national' church and the development of a historical identity.

Languages and Cultures of Eastern Christianity: Ethiopian

Languages and Cultures of Eastern Christianity: Ethiopian
Title Languages and Cultures of Eastern Christianity: Ethiopian PDF eBook
Author Alessandro Bausi
Publisher Routledge
Pages 468
Release 2017-05-15
Genre Religion
ISBN 1351923293

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This volume brings together a set of contributions, many appearing in English for the first time, together with a new introduction, covering the history of the Ethiopian Christian civilization in its formative period (300-1500 AD). Rooted in the late antique kingdom of Aksum (present day Northern Ethiopia and Eritrea), and lying between Byzantium, Africa and the Near East, this civilization is presented in a series of case studies. At a time when philological and linguistic investigations are being challenged by new approaches in Ethiopian studies, this volume emphasizes the necessity of basic research, while avoiding the reduction of cultural questions to matters of fact and detail.

Languages and Cultures of Eastern Christianity

Languages and Cultures of Eastern Christianity
Title Languages and Cultures of Eastern Christianity PDF eBook
Author Stephen H. Rapp
Publisher Routledge
Pages 0
Release 2012
Genre Georgia (Republic)
ISBN 9780754659860

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Brings together studies on the history and culture of Christian Georgia. In this book, the opening section sets the regional context, in relation to the Byzantine empire in particular, while subsequent parts deal with the conversion and christianization of the country, the making of a "national" church and the development of a historical identity.

Doctrine and Debate in the East Christian World, 300–1500

Doctrine and Debate in the East Christian World, 300–1500
Title Doctrine and Debate in the East Christian World, 300–1500 PDF eBook
Author Averil Cameron
Publisher Routledge
Pages 460
Release 2017-05-15
Genre Religion
ISBN 1351943219

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The reign of Constantine (306-37), the starting point for the series in which this volume appears, saw Christianity begin its journey from being just one of a number of competing cults to being the official religion of the Roman/Byzantine Empire. The involvement of emperors had the, perhaps inevitable, result of a preoccupation with producing, promoting and enforcing a single agreed version of the Christian creed. Under this pressure Christianity in the East fragmented into different sects, disagreeing over the nature of Christ, but also, in some measure, seeking to resist imperial interference and to elaborate Christianities more reflective of and sensitive to local concerns and cultures. This volume presents an introduction to, and a selection of the key studies on, the ways in which and means by which these Eastern Christianities debated with one another and with their competitors: pagans, Jews, Muslims and Latin Christians. It also includes the iconoclast controversy, which divided parts of the East Christian world in the seventh to ninth centuries, and devotes space both to the methodological tools that evolved in the process of debate and the promulgation of doctrine, and to the literary genres through which the debates were expressed.

Eastern Christianity

Eastern Christianity
Title Eastern Christianity PDF eBook
Author J. Edward Walters
Publisher Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Pages 589
Release 2021-11-18
Genre Religion
ISBN 1467462691

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English translations of Syriac, Armenian, Georgian, Arabic, Coptic, and Ethiopic Christian texts from late antiquity to the early modern period In order to make the writings of Eastern Christianity more widely accessible this volume offers a collection of significant texts from various Eastern Christian traditions, many of which are appearing in English for the first time. The internationally renowned scholars behind these translations begin each section with an informative historical introduction, so that anyone interested in learning more about these understudied groups can more easily traverse their diverse linguistic, cultural, and literary traditions. A boon to scholars, students, and general readers, this ample resource expands the scope of Christian history so that communities beyond Western Christendom can no longer be ignored. Contributors Jesse S. Arlen, Aaron M. Butts, Jeff W. Childers, Mary K. Farag, Philip Michael Forness, John C. Lamoreaux, Jeanne-Nicole Mellon Saint-Laurent, Erin Galgay Walsh, J. Edward Walters, and Jeffrey Wickes.

The Encounter of Eastern Christianity with Early Islam

The Encounter of Eastern Christianity with Early Islam
Title The Encounter of Eastern Christianity with Early Islam PDF eBook
Author David Thomas
Publisher BRILL
Pages 344
Release 2006-05-01
Genre Religion
ISBN 9047408829

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The theme of this book is the early encounters between Christianity and Islam in the eastern provinces of the Byzantine Empire and in Persia from the beginnings of Islam in Mecca to the time of the Abbasids in Bagdad. The contributions in this volume deal with crucial subjects of political and theological dialogue and controversy that characterized the varying responses of the Christian communities in the Byzantine Eastern provinces to the Islamic conquest and its subsequent impact on Byzantine society and history. This volume opens up new research perspectives surrounding the confrontation of Christianity with the early theological and political development of Islam. The present publication emphasizes the importance of the study of the beginnings and the foundations of the relations between the two religions.