03-15-2004, 10:38 PM
Paul Younan Wrote:Shlama Akhi Michael,
judge Wrote:Is this statement correct.
"After the Council of Ephesus in 431 A.D., the Eastern Syrian church, in turn divided between the Nestorian and the Syrian Orthodox Churches, broke away, and retained this canon of only 22 books (the Peshitta) until the present day."
Only slightly. The statement makes the assumption that such a thing as "the Eastern Syrian church" even existed. There was never such a thing as "the Eastern Syrian church" - there was the "Syrian church" in Syria, residing in the Byzantine empire....and then there was a totally different church called "the Church of the East" in the Sassanid Persian empire. Two totally unrelated and different churches.
Thanks for the clarifications Paul.
So is it that western scholars have never really understood the COE and it's relation to other "syrian" churches?
Is this the problem IYHO that the syrian churches are all gouped as tough they were one body when this was not/never the case?