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CHURCH OF ST. HRIPSIME AT ETSHMIADZIN.
[Frontispiece
THE
LESSER EASTERN CHURCHES
BY
ADRIAN FORTESCUE, PH.D., D.D.
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
LONDON:CATHOLIC TRUTH SOCIETY
69 SOUTHWARK BRIDGE ROAD, S.E. - 1913
Ἕκτορι μὲν καὶ Τρωσὶ τὸ κέρδιον· αὐτὰρ Ἀχαιοὺς
δηρὸν ἐμῆς καὶ σῆς ἔριδος μνήσεσθαι ὀίω.
Ἀλλὰ τὰ μὲν προτετύχθαι ἐάσομεν ἀχνύμενοί περ
θυμὸν ένὶ στήθεσσι φίλον δαμάσαντες ἀνάγκῃ.
Iliad, xix. 63–66.
CONTENTS
PART I
THE NESTORIANS
PAGE
Of the Lesser Eastern Churches in General |
3 |
The East Syrian Church before Nestorianism |
17 |
Nestorianism |
54 |
The Nestorian Church in the Past. |
88 |
The Present Nestorian Church |
114 |
PART II
THE COPTS
Monophysism |
163 |
The Coptic Church in the Past |
214 |
The Copts in our Time |
252 |
PART III
THE ABYSSINIANS, JACOBITES, AND MALABAR CHRISTIANS
The Abyssinian Church |
293 |
The Jacobites |
323 |
The Church of Malabar |
353 |
PART IV
THE ARMENIANS
The Armenian Church in the Past |
383 |
The Armenian Church To-day |
424 |
The Hope of Reunion |
446 |
451 |
ILLUSTRATIONS
FIG.
PAGE
1. | (Frontispiece) |
2. | 127 |
(From a photograph by the Rev. F. N. Heazell)
3. | 133 |
(From a photograph by the Rev. F. N. Heazell)
4. | 144 |
(From a photograph by the Rev. F. N. Heazell)
5. | 146 |
6. | 266 |
7. | 268 |
8. | 269 |
9. | 273 |
10. | 310 |
11. | 313 |
12. | 339 |
13. | 376 |
14. | 378 |
15. | 429 |
16. | 433 |
17. | 435 |
18. | 437 |
Nihil obstat
SYDNEY F. SMITH, S.J.
Imprimatur
✠ PETRUS,
Epūs Southwarc.
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