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Nestorian Christianity was of vast historical importance, but little known Jul 23, 2009
By Jeri Nevermind
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This very short book--it's only 82 pages, including the index--does one very important thing: it sheds light on that little known aspect of Christian history, the Nestorian era.
Nestorian Christianity spread across a broad swath of the Middle East and Asia. At one point, its numbers may have rivaled those of Roman Catholics and the Orthodox. That it suddenly collapsed is one of the untold histories of Christianity.
The fact remains that we do not know how soon Christianity spread to China. There are supposedly records of Christians as early as 100 AD in Peiping. Another note, according to Li Wen-pin places two Syrian missionaries in China during the Han period, before 200 AD.
Nestorians, who were charged with heresy by the Council of Ephesus in 431 AD, sent Nestorians fleeing across the Middle East and Asia. There is a stone monument dated to 781 AD showing that "the Roman Nestorian religion is popular in China" (p 45) and listing the names of sixty Nestorian priests.
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