Never quite heard it put this way ... - Printable Version +- Peshitta Forum (http://peshitta.org/for) +-- Forum: Communities (http://peshitta.org/for/forumdisplay.php?fid=4) +--- Forum: Church of the East Forum (http://peshitta.org/for/forumdisplay.php?fid=22) +--- Thread: Never quite heard it put this way ... (/showthread.php?tid=2741) |
Never quite heard it put this way ... - Paul Younan - 12-24-2011 http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/2011/01/the-church-of-the-east Quote:...from late antiquity right up into the high middle ages?the Church of the East was, in geographic terms, far and away the largest Christian communion in the world, and the most actively evangelical. Had there been such a thing as accurate cartography in the early thirteenth century, any good map of the Christian world might have suggested to a casual observer that European Christianity was little more than a local phenomenon, a sort of provincial annex at the western edge of Assyrian Christendom. David Bentley Hart is a contributing editor of First Things. +Shamasha |