Languages and Cultures of Eastern Christianity: Georgian - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Languages and Cultures of Eastern Christianity: Georgian write by Stephen H. Rapp. This book was released on 2018-10-24. Languages and Cultures of Eastern Christianity: Georgian available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume brings together a set of key studies on the history and culture of Christian Georgia, along with a substantial new introduction. The opening section sets the regional context, in relation to the Byzantine empire in particular, while subsequent parts deal with the conversion and christianization of the country, the making of a 'national' church and the development of a historical identity.
Languages and Cultures of Eastern Christianity: Greek
Languages and Cultures of Eastern Christianity: Greek - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Languages and Cultures of Eastern Christianity: Greek write by Scott Fitzgerald Johnson. This book was released on 2017-05-15. Languages and Cultures of Eastern Christianity: Greek available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume brings together a set of fundamental contributions, many translated into English for this publication, along with an important introduction. Together these explore the role of Greek among Christian communities in the late antique and Byzantine East (late Roman Oriens), specifically in the areas outside of the immediate sway of Constantinople and imperial Asia Minor. The local identities based around indigenous eastern Christian languages (Syriac, Coptic, Armenian, Georgian, etc.) and post-Chalcedonian doctrinal confessions (Miaphysite, Church of the East, Melkite, Maronite) were solidifying precisely as the Byzantine polity in the East was extinguished by the Arab conquests of the seventh century. In this multilayered cultural environment, Greek was a common social touchstone for all of these Christian communities, not only because of the shared Greek heritage of the early Church, but also because of the continued value of Greek theological, hagiographical, and liturgical writings. However, these interactions were dynamic and living, so that the Greek of the medieval Near East was itself transformed by such engagement with eastern Christian literature, appropriating new ideas and new texts into the Byzantine repertoire in the process.
Languages and Cultures of Eastern Christianity: Ethiopian
Languages and Cultures of Eastern Christianity: Ethiopian - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Languages and Cultures of Eastern Christianity: Ethiopian write by Alessandro Bausi. This book was released on 2017-05-15. Languages and Cultures of Eastern Christianity: Ethiopian available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume brings together a set of contributions, many appearing in English for the first time, together with a new introduction, covering the history of the Ethiopian Christian civilization in its formative period (300-1500 AD). Rooted in the late antique kingdom of Aksum (present day Northern Ethiopia and Eritrea), and lying between Byzantium, Africa and the Near East, this civilization is presented in a series of case studies. At a time when philological and linguistic investigations are being challenged by new approaches in Ethiopian studies, this volume emphasizes the necessity of basic research, while avoiding the reduction of cultural questions to matters of fact and detail.
Doctrine and Debate in the East Christian World, 300–1500
Doctrine and Debate in the East Christian World, 300–1500 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Doctrine and Debate in the East Christian World, 300–1500 write by Averil Cameron. This book was released on 2017-05-15. Doctrine and Debate in the East Christian World, 300–1500 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The reign of Constantine (306-37), the starting point for the series in which this volume appears, saw Christianity begin its journey from being just one of a number of competing cults to being the official religion of the Roman/Byzantine Empire. The involvement of emperors had the, perhaps inevitable, result of a preoccupation with producing, promoting and enforcing a single agreed version of the Christian creed. Under this pressure Christianity in the East fragmented into different sects, disagreeing over the nature of Christ, but also, in some measure, seeking to resist imperial interference and to elaborate Christianities more reflective of and sensitive to local concerns and cultures. This volume presents an introduction to, and a selection of the key studies on, the ways in which and means by which these Eastern Christianities debated with one another and with their competitors: pagans, Jews, Muslims and Latin Christians. It also includes the iconoclast controversy, which divided parts of the East Christian world in the seventh to ninth centuries, and devotes space both to the methodological tools that evolved in the process of debate and the promulgation of doctrine, and to the literary genres through which the debates were expressed.
Georgian Christian Thought and Its Cultural Context
Georgian Christian Thought and Its Cultural Context - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Georgian Christian Thought and Its Cultural Context write by Tamar Nutsubidze. This book was released on 2014-03-13. Georgian Christian Thought and Its Cultural Context available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The volume contains contributions dedicated to the person and the work of Shalva Nutsubidze and his scholarly interests: the Christian Orient from the fifth to the seventh century, the Georgian eleventh century, the Neoplatonic philosopher Ioane Petritsi and his epoch and Shota Rustaveli and mediaeval Georgian culture. Among the articles are a new edition and translation of the original Georgian author’s Preface to the lost Commentary on the Psalms by Ioane Petritsi and the editio princeps with an English translation of an epistle of Nicetas Stethatos (eleventh century), whose Greek original is lost. The traditions of Georgian mediaeval thought are considered in their historical context within the Byzantine Commonwealth and are traced in both philosophy and poetry.
