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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Nestorian"”.
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American missionaries in Iran, 1834-1934
… Their evangelical work was done mainly among Nestorian Christians in the northern part of Persia.The missionaries had some success and between 1870 Presbyterian missionaries labored to establish the foundations for a Christian church in Iran. They had to overcome numerous difficulties …
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Books, Homilies, and Medicine: Sogdian Christians and Christian Networks along the Silk Roads
… but usually overshadowed by discussions of “Nestorian Christianity” or “Persian Christians.” This association with the Church of the East, based in Mesopotamia, is not surprising yet in many cases obscures a more nuanced reality. This study asserts Sogdian Christians had connections to wider …
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Defending divine unity in the Muslim milieu: the Trinitarian and Christological formulations of Abū al-Faraj ‘Abd Allāh Ibn al-Ṭayyib and Iliyyā of Nisibis
… in Christ proffered by the Church of the East (‘Nestorian’) and social and political implications of Christian adherence to divine unity. The research concludes with a discussion of implications of divine Trinitarian unity in today’s Arab Muslim world.
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K'ung-tzu or Confucius? The Jesuit interpretation of Confucianism
… of foreign religions into China- Buddhism, the Nestorian Christians of the T'ang, Judaism and Islam, as well as the Franciscan missionaries of the 13th, and 14th centuries. Problems of translation and finding equivalent terminology, the Chinese tendency to syncretism and the difficulty of …
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K'ung-tzu or Confucius? The Jesuit interpretation of Confucianism
… of foreign religions into China- Buddhism, the Nestorian Christians of the T'ang, Judaism and Islam, as well as the Franciscan missionaries of the 13th, and 14th centuries. Problems of translation and finding equivalent terminology, the Chinese tendency to syncretism and the difficulty of …