A Silent Patriarch
A Silent Patriarch

Author: Daniel Fanous

Publisher: SPCK Publishing

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780881416497

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"Fr Daniel Fanous details the life of Pope Kyrillos, a key figure in recent Coptic history, drawing on unpublished archival materials and documents"--

Habib Girgis
Habib Girgis

Author: Suriel (Coptic Bishop of Melbourne)

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780881415919

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Popes and Patriarchs
Popes and Patriarchs

Author: Michael Whelton

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13:

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For any dialogue between the Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches to be fruitful, we must first understand our differences. Popes and Patriarchs covers some of the distinctives in theology and worldview that separate the churches of the East from those of the West, focusing primarily on the claims of papal supremacy. Author Michael Whelton, a convert from Catholicism to Orthodoxy, discusses some of the theological and historical issues that led him to explore the teachings of the Orthodox Church, including the doctrine of original sin, the influence of Medieval scholastic thought on the Western Church, and the modern trend toward evolutionary Christianity. Part II examines in depth the true attitude of the early Eastern saints of the Church toward the papacy, an attitude radically different from that frequently attributed to them by Roman Catholic apologists.A final chapter is devoted to typical questions Roman Catholics raise about the Orthodox Church, including a comprehensive discussion of divorce and remarriage.

Christianity in the Land of the Pharaohs
Christianity in the Land of the Pharaohs

Author: Jill Kamil

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2002-09-05

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 1136797874

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An engaging survey of Coptic Christianity in Egypt since Pharaonic times, through its development under Rome, Byzantium, Islam and beyond. Ideal reading for students of Egyptian history and Christianity.

Historical Dictionary of the Coptic Church
Historical Dictionary of the Coptic Church

Author: Gawdat Gabra

Publisher: Historical Dictionaries of Rel

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13:

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"The Coptic Church is based on the teaching of Saint Mark, who brought Christianity to Egypt during the first century. Copts, members of the Coptic Church, comprise the largest Christian community in the Middle East. The Coptic Church is more than nineteen centuries old and has produced thousands of texts and biblical and theological studies. Today, there are more than one million members of the Coptic Church, but the majority lives abroad in North America and Australia. Most left Egypt primarily because of economic and political discrimination." "Historical Dictionary of the Coptic Church, through its chronology; introductory essay; bibliography; and more than 400 cross-referenced dictionary entries on important people, organizations, structures, theological practices of the church, literature and liturgy, and monasteries and churches, details the history of this fascinating institution and its followers."--BOOK JACKET.

The Coptic Papacy in Islamic Egypt, 641–1517
The Coptic Papacy in Islamic Egypt, 641–1517

Author: Mark N. Swanson

Publisher: American University in Cairo Press

Published: 2022-09-06

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 1617976695

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An authoritative account of the Coptic Papacy in Egypt from the coming of Islam to the onset of the Ottoman era, by a leading religious studies scholar, new in paperback In Volume 1 of this series, Stephen Davis contended that the themes of “apostolicity, martyrdom, monastic patronage, and theological resistance” were determinative for the cultural construction of Egyptian church leadership in late antiquity. This second volume shows that the medieval Coptic popes (641–1517 CE) were regularly portrayed as standing in continuity with their saintly predecessors; however, at the same time, they were active in creating something new, the Coptic Orthodox Church, a community that struggled to preserve a distinctive life and witness within the new Islamic world order. Building on recent advances in the study of sources for Coptic church history, the present volume aims to show how portrayals of the medieval popes provide a window into the religious and social life of their community.

The Early Coptic Papacy
The Early Coptic Papacy

Author: Stephen J. Davis

Publisher: American University in Cairo Press

Published: 2017-09-12

Total Pages: 323

ISBN-13: 1617979104

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The Copts, adherents of the Egyptian Orthodox Church, today represent the largest Christian community in the Middle East, and their presiding bishops have been accorded the title of pope since the third century AD. This study analyzes the development of the Egyptian papacy from its origins to the rise of Islam. How did the papal office in Egypt evolve as a social and religious institution during the first six and a half centuries AD? How do the developments in the Alexandrian patriarchate reflect larger developments in the Egyptian church as a whole—in its structures of authority and lines of communication, as well as in its social and religious practices? In addressing such questions, Stephen J. Davis examines a wide range of evidence—letters, sermons, theological treatises, and church histories, as well as art, artifacts, and archaeological remains—to discover what the patriarchs did as leaders, how their leadership was represented in public discourses, and how those representations definitively shaped Egyptian Christian identity in late antiquity. The Early Coptic Papacy is Volume 1 of The Popes of Egypt: A History of the Coptic Church and Its Patriarchs. Also available: Volume 2, The Coptic Papacy in Islamic Egypt, 641–1517 (Mark N. Swanson) and Volume 3, The Emergence of the Modern Coptic Papacy (Magdi Girgis, Nelly van Doorn-Harder).