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For fifteen centuries, the tradition known as "Nestorian Christianity" has been defined by its enemies, condemned at the Council of Ephesus in 431, dismissed as heresy, and forgotten as a footnote to the theological controversies of the Greek-speaking world. The truth is far more extraordinary. The Church of the East was, at the height of its achievement, the most geographically extensive Christian institution in the history of the faith, carrying the Gospel from the Persian Gulf to the shores of Tang Dynasty China, from the steppes of Mongolia to the Malabar Coast of India, sustaining communities of extraordinary theological sophistication and cultural creativity across seven centuries of Silk Road mission.
Drawing on the latest scholarship in Syriac studies, patristic theology, Central Asian archaeology, and Chinese Christian history, this book tells the full story of a tradition whose condemnation was built on misunderstanding, whose missionary achievement was unparalleled, and whose survival through persecution, catastrophe, and diaspora represents one of the most remarkable chapters in the history of world Christianity. From the theological genius of Babai the Great to the 1994 Common Christological Declaration that finally acknowledged the injustice of the ancient division, this is the history of a church the world forgot, and urgently needs to remember.
For fifteen centuries, the tradition known as "Nestorian Christianity" has been defined by its enemies, condemned at the Council of Ephesus in 431, dismissed as heresy, and forgotten as a footnote to the theological controversies of the Greek-speaking world. The truth is far more extraordinary. The Church of the East was, at the height of its achievement, the most geographically extensive Christian institution in the history of the faith, carrying the Gospel from the Persian Gulf to the shores of Tang Dynasty China, from the steppes of Mongolia to the Malabar Coast of India, sustaining communities of extraordinary theological sophistication and cultural creativity across seven centuries of Silk Road mission.
Drawing on the latest scholarship in Syriac studies, patristic theology, Central Asian archaeology, and Chinese Christian history, this book tells the full story of a tradition whose condemnation was built on misunderstanding, whose missionary achievement was unparalleled, and whose survival through persecution, catastrophe, and diaspora represents one of the most remarkable chapters in the history of world Christianity. From the theological genius of Babai the Great to the 1994 Common Christological Declaration that finally acknowledged the injustice of the ancient division, this is the history of a church the world forgot, and urgently needs to remember.
Dr. Robinson is the author of a wide-ranging body of narrative nonfiction works spanning subjects from the ancient civilisations of the Fertile Crescent and the Silk Road trading world to the criminal justice histories of the modern era. In all of his writing, he is animated by a consistent set of concerns: the recovery of institutional failure and its human costs, the dignity of marginalised communities whose histories have been written by those who defeated them, and the conviction that the deepest obligation of the historian is not to confirm what the reader already believes but to complicate it honestly and generously. The Nestorian Heresy is among the most personal and most ambitious of his works to date.
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2026 |
|---|---|
| Genre: | Importe, Religion & Theologie |
| Religion: | Nichtchristliche Religionen |
| Rubrik: | Geisteswissenschaften |
| Medium: | Taschenbuch |
| ISBN-13: | 9798233697203 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Einband: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Autor: | Robinson, Séumas |
| Hersteller: | SilverBack |
| Verantwortliche Person für die EU: | Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de |
| Maße: | 216 x 140 x 31 mm |
| Von/Mit: | Séumas Robinson |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 23.03.2026 |
| Gewicht: | 0,718 kg |
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