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=> Dr. George Khoury

Dr. George Khoury
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In his article titled "eastern Christianity on the eve of Islam" he states the following about Nestorian missionary activity under Islam:

"Eastern Churches on the Eve of Islam.

This is briefly the situation of the Eastem Christianity just beforethe rise of Islam. By this time the Syrian Christian Church had split intoseveral communities. As mentioned earlier there was first the East SyrianChurch or the Church of the East which was later called Nestorian. In theyear 484 Nestorian theology was declared by the Synod of Beth Papat inPersia as the official theology of the East Syrian Church. From this dateon, one can accurately designate the East Syrian Church as "Nestorian."However, the term "Nestorian" was applied to it only at a laterdate (19th Century), by Roman Catholics, to convey the stigma of differencesin contradistinction to those who joined the Catholic Church as Uniatsand received the name Chaldeans.

With its God-and-man doctrine of Christology (in contrast to the orthodoxdoctrine which held that while in Christ two natures existed, these weremoulded into one person), its protest against the deification of the VirginMary and its unusual vitality and missionary zeal, this Church at the riseof Islam was the most potent factor in Syrian culture which had impresseditself upon the Near East from Egypt to Persia. Members of this communityfrom the fourth century onward had studied and translated Greek philosophicalworks and spread them throughout Syria and Mesopotamia. From Edessa theChurch extended eastward into Persia. Even under Islam this Church hadan unparalleled record of missionary activity. And there was, on the otherhand, the western branch of the Syrian Church with its God-man Christologyand its exaltation of the Virgin to the celestial rank, and which was comparativelylacking in missionary endeavour. Its theology was monophysite, giving prominenceto the unity of Christ at the expense of the human element. In Syria theMonophysite communion was called by hostile Greeks "Jacobites"after Jacob Baradacus, bishop of Edessa in the mid-sixth century."

This is from the Arab Christian professor writing about it and the above quote is from his article about eastern Christianity.



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