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Nestorian Christianity - foreword by HH Eshai Shimun
#1
Shlama,

His Holiness Eshai Shimun said of this book:
Quote:"If this book serves to stimulate interest in the Church
of the East, whose history has been so much more
difficult than that of Western Christianity, I shall be
gratified. My people have had a great struggle to
maintain their Christian faith. They have had to
stand against other religions having the advantage of
State support, and they have frequently suffered in
great racial disturbances. But their witness goes on,
and I pray God that easier days may soon be granted
them; this work may help toward that end if it enlarges
the vision and sympathy of English-speaking Christians.
I favour every contribution toward the bringing into
closer relationship of all the people of God: for 'there
shall be one fold, and one shepherd."

Full title:
The Nestorian Church: A Concise History of Nestorian Christianity in Asia from the Persian Schism to the Modern Assyrians. By Aubrey R. Vine. 1937.

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Shlama,
Ya'aqub Younan-Levine
Ya'aqub Younan-Levine
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#2
Quote from the book...

Quote:As to the Bible, under missionary influence they
were tending to accept and use the canon of Western
Christendom,1 though the true Syriac canon is somewhat
smaller. Ebedyeshu, metropolitan of Nisibis,
gives: the Four Gospels, Acts, the Epistle of James,
i Peter, i John, fourteen Epistles of Paul (inclusive of
Hebrews). He also adds the Diatessaron of Tatian. 2
The most significant omission is the Apocalypse.
Ebedyeshu's list, apart from his apparent reauthorization
of the Diatessaron, is the same as the
canon of the Syriac Peshitta, which dates from about
420.

Page 188
Ya'aqub Younan-Levine
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#3
shlama,

"As to services, every day there was morning and
evening prayer, to which the worshippers were summoned
by striking a kind of wooden gong with a
hammer, though under missionary influence bells were
increasingly coming into use." P. 190


LOL! The Maronites use to use the wooden gong with the hammer as well. <!-- sSmile --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/smile.gif" alt="Smile" title="Smile" /><!-- sSmile -->

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#4
Shlama,

Reading accounts such as this and those by Asahel Grant and others, continue to remind me of just how much our people have lost of not only our identity and Biblical literacy (for some) but also many of our rich and revered customs in general because of persecution and being forced from our lands. The way we live today is not the same way as our ancestors did. Very sad. <!-- sSad --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/sad.gif" alt="Sad" title="Sad" /><!-- sSad -->

I hope that more of our people read these accounts and learn from them and develop a heart of returning to the old way while living in a modern world of course.

Shlama,
Ya'aqub Younan-Levine
Ya'aqub Younan-Levine
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#5
Interesting beginning in the first chapter:

Quote:NESTORIUS, a fifth-century bishop of Constantinople, has provided a name for a heresy which he did not originate, possibly did not even hold, and for a Church which he did not found.
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Phil Wrote:Interesting beginning in the first chapter:

Quote:NESTORIUS, a fifth-century bishop of Constantinople, has provided a name for a heresy which he did not originate, possibly did not even hold, and for a Church which he did not found.

A classic example of history being written by the victors.
+Shamasha Paul bar-Shimun de'Beth-Younan
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