| Description |
xiv, 634 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Library of religious and philosophic thought
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Library of religious and philosophical thought.
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| Note |
First published in 1908. |
| Bibliography |
Bibliographical footnotes. |
| Contents |
Christianity in the East under the pagan emperors -- Constantine the Great -- Arianism -- The later Arian period -- The Cappadocian theologians -- The movements that led to the Council of Chalcedon -- The Monophysite troubles -- The later Christological controversies -- Organisation and worship -- Eastern monasticism -- The rise and spread of Mohammedanism -- Byzantine art -- The iconoclastic reforms -- The restoration of image worship -- The Paulicians -- The Great Schism -- The Crusades -- The Greek church at the fall of the Byzantine empire -- Life and letters in the Byzantine church -- Cyril Lucar and the Reformation -- The later Greek church under the Turks -- The outlying branches of the Greek church -- The origin of Christianity in Russia -- The Mongolian invasion of Russia -- Revival of Russia -- The patriarchate -- Peter the Great and the Holy Synod -- The Orthodox church in modern Russia -- Russian sects -- Early Syrian Christianity -- The Syrian Nestorians -- The later Nestorians, the Chaldaeans, and the Jacobites -- The Nestorians of the Far East -- Later Eastern Christianity -- The Armenian church -- Origin and early history of the Coptic church -- The Persian and Arab conquests -- The Copts under the caliphate -- The Turkish period -- Abyssinian Christianity. |
| Subject |
Eastern churches.
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Eastern churches. |
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