Two thousand years of Coptic Christianity / [Book] / Otto F.A. Meinardus.

By:

Meinardus, Otto F. A, 1925-2005 [author.]

Contributor(s):

Wechsler, Harry

Material type: Text

TextEdition: Second paperback editionDescription: viii, 344 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmISBN:

9789774167454 (paperback)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

281.72 23

Other classification:

281.72

Summary: Christianity arrived early in Egypt, brought?according to tradition?by Saint Mark the Evangelist, who became the first patriarch of Alexandria. The Coptic Orthodox Church has flourished ever since, with millions of adherents both in Egypt and in Coptic communities around the world. Since its split from the Byzantine Church in 451, the Coptic Church has proudly maintained its early traditions, and influence from outside has been minimal: the liturgy is still sung to unique rhythms in Coptic, a late stage of the same ancient Egyptian language that is inscribed in hieroglyphs on temple walls and papyri. Dr. Otto Meinardus, a leading authority on the history of the Coptic Church, here revises, updates, and combines his renowned studies Christian Egypt, Ancient and Modern (AUC Press, 1965, 1977) and Christian Egypt, Faith and Life (AUC Press, 1970) into a new, definitive, one-volume history, surveying the twenty centuries of existence of one of the oldest churches in the world.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Books	Junaid Zaidi Library, COMSATS University Islamabad 2nd Floor	281.72 MEI-T (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		58908
Books	Junaid Zaidi Library, COMSATS University Islamabad Ground Floor	570.15195 GUO-M (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		58909

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Christianity arrived early in Egypt, brought?according to tradition?by Saint Mark the Evangelist, who became the first patriarch of Alexandria. The Coptic Orthodox Church has flourished ever since, with millions of adherents both in Egypt and in Coptic communities around the world. Since its split from the Byzantine Church in 451, the Coptic Church has proudly maintained its early traditions, and influence from outside has been minimal: the liturgy is still sung to unique rhythms in Coptic, a late stage of the same ancient Egyptian language that is inscribed in hieroglyphs on temple walls and papyri. Dr. Otto Meinardus, a leading authority on the history of the Coptic Church, here revises, updates, and combines his renowned studies Christian Egypt, Ancient and Modern (AUC Press, 1965, 1977) and Christian Egypt, Faith and Life (AUC Press, 1970) into a new, definitive, one-volume history, surveying the twenty centuries of existence of one of the oldest churches in the world.

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