An Early Christian Reaction to Islam

Iskandar Bcheiry

• Hardcover | Engels | Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies | nr. 57
• The year 652 marked a fundamental political change in the Middle East and the surrounding region. On this date the Sasanid Empire collapsed and the ma... Lees meer

Icons of the Heavenly Merchant

Andrew Hayes

• Hardcover | Engels | Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies | nr. 45
• The fourth century saw a flowering of ascetic life in Mesopotamia under pioneers who coupled the ancient missionary-ascetic traditions of the Syriac s... Lees meer

Bardaisan of Edessa

Ilaria L E Ramelli

• Hardcover | Engels | Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies
• This comprehensive study offers a critical, comparative analysis of the sources available on Bardaisan and a reinterpretation of his thought. In this ... Lees meer

East and West

Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala, Vassilios Christides, Theodoros Papadopoullos

• Hardcover | Engels | Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies
• This book traces the rich religious, cultural, artistic, ecconomical, social and historical relations among the Greeks and the Middle East people from... Lees meer

The Influence of Origen on the Young Augustine

Gyrgy Heidl, Gyorgy Heidl

• Hardcover | Engels | Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies
• The main purpose of the book is to demonstrate that as early as the first phase of his activity (386-393 AD), Augustine did make use of some Origenian... Lees meer

The Platonic Theology of Ioane Petritsi

Levan Gigineishvili

• Hardcover | Engels | Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies
• Gigineishvili's study is a comprehensive exposition of the philosophical system of twelfth-century Georgian Christian Neoplatonist philosopher Ioane P... Lees meer

The Life and Works of Severus of Antioch in the Coptic and Copto-Arabic Tradition

Youhanna Youssef

• Hardcover | Arabisch, Koptisch, Engels | Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies
• Severus of Antioch is by far the most prolific and well known theologian of the non-Chalcedonian churches. Although his life and writings came to our ... Lees meer

History of Eastern Christianity

Aziz Atiya

• Hardcover | Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies
• This book is a classic in the history of the Oriental Churches, which are sometimes portrayed as heretical in general church history books, if mention... Lees meer

Sayfo 1915

• Hardcover | Engels | Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies | nr. 50
• This anthology offers readers a collection of essays written from a multi-disciplinary perspective about the genocide of Assyrians/Aramaeans during th... Lees meer

Vie de S. Macaire l'Egyptien

Satoshi Toda

• Hardcover | Engels | Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies
• Saint Macarius the Egyptian's (c. 300-390) virtue and spiritual exploits gave rise to various tales and sayings. These were recounted, some hundred ye... Lees meer

Deification in the Eastern Orthodox Tradition

Stephen Thomas

• Paperback | Engels | Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies
• A popularly-written study of the biblical roots of the Eastern Orthodox Church's mystical understanding of the knowledge of God. This unique study bri... Lees meer

The Syriac Writers of Qatar in the Seventh Century

• Hardcover | Engels | Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies
• This edited volume presents a number of Syriac monastic and ascetical writers from the seventh century who were born and educated in Beth Qatraye (Syr... Lees meer

Christian and Muslim Dialogues

David Bertaina

• Paperback | Engels | Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies
• Christian and Muslim Dialogues examines the history of interreligious discourse between Christians and Muslims in the Middle East from the pre-Islamic... Lees meer

The Theology of 'Ammār al-Basrī

Mark Beaumont

• Hardcover | Engels | Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies | nr. 62
• ʿAmmār al-Baṣrī (d.c. 850) was the first Christian to write a systematic theology in Arabic, the language of the Muslim rulers of ʿAmmār's Middle East... Lees meer

Personal Names in Old Syriac (Edessan Aramaic) Inscriptions and Parchments

Adil Al-Jadir

• Hardcover | Engels | Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies | nr. 60
• This book collects systematically all the personal names found in Old Syriac sources in such a way as to enable them to be dealt with from a structura... Lees meer

Redefining History on Pre-Islamic Accounts

Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala

• Hardcover | Engels | Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies
• The present book deals with a comparative study of the contents and structure of the events that occurred in Najran according to the MS Sinaitic Arabi... Lees meer

Studies on Jacob of Edessa

• Hardcover | Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies
• Jacob of Edessa was a seventh century polymath who witnessed the coming of Islam. In this collection of papers, specialists discuss the life and works... Lees meer

The Martyrdom of St Philotheus of Antioch in Coptic Egypt and Beyond

Anna Rogozhina

• Hardcover | Engels | Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies | nr. 52
• This book examines the function and development of the cult of saints in Coptic Egypt, focusing primarily on the material provided by the texts formin... Lees meer

Orthodox Monasticism Past and Present

• Hardcover | Engels | Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies
• This collection of scholarly essays on Eastern Orthodox ascetic life derived from an international conference on the theme held in 2013. The book revi... Lees meer

The Syriac Writers of Qatar in the Seventh Century

• Paperback | Engels | Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies
• This edited volume presents a number of Syriac monastic and ascetical writers from the seventh century who were born and educated in Beth Qatraye (Syr... Lees meer

Divine Contingency

Thomas Cattoi

• Hardcover | Engels | Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies
• The purpose of this work is to explore the distinct notions of divine embodiment developed by Maximos the Confessor (580-662), one of the greatest Gre... Lees meer

Knowledge and Experience in the Writings of St. Isaac of Nineveh

Valentin Vesa

• Hardcover | Engels | Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies | nr. 51
• One of the most popular monastic authors with a nearly universal spread over time is Isaac of Nineveh, a mystic of the late 7th century, who belonged ... Lees meer

Jacob of Serugh and His Times

• Hardcover | Engels | Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies
• A collection of studies on the Syriac sixth century writer Jacob of Sarug by a team of international scholars. Lees meer

Christian and Muslim Dialogues

David Bertaina

• Hardcover | Engels | Gorgias Eastern Christian Studies
• Linked by a common geography and claim to the true religion, Christians and Muslims had a long history of interreligious discourse up to the Crusades.... Lees meer