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8 of 9 found the following review helpful:
Church of the East, not Eastern Orthodox Church Mar 03, 2010
By Patrick R. Novak
This book is the published edition of Mar Bawai's dissertation. Most people in the West, those from the empire ruled by Rome, have very little, if any, knowledge of the Church of the East, which had its origin and life among Persian and successor empires.
Mar Bawai does a good job of explaining the Church of the East's continuing reverence for Nestorious and Theodore of Mopsuestia. Long past the Christological controversies of the Early Church and Councils, he guides us through a more balanced understanding of these two early giants of the church. Indeed, so much ground has been made up, that of late, there has been a reproachment between the Church of the East and almost all of the churchs of the West.
I found the most important aspect of this work was the telling of the absolutly compelling story of the missionary enterprise of the Church of the East as it reached out to India and China. The modern missionary movement and the Pentecostal explosion of the last century have not pride of place in the taking of the Gospel to foreign lands; the Church of the East was in India and China before most of Western Europe was evangelized.
Anyone interested in this work might also read: Christianity in Asia by Frykenberg, Christianity in Asia by Moffett, and The Eclipse of Christianity in Asia by Browne.
8 of 10 found the following review helpful:
A much-needed, and most wonderful, book Mar 07, 2009
By I. Holder
This book is not only exceptionally informative, but also very readable -- very few authors I find can do both. Looking at this ancient Christian Church, I was informed of not only its origins but also its theologians -- and what wonderful theologians they are. The Eastern theologians are treasures and sources of rich faith and hope -- and they deserve to be more widely known.
Mar Bawai has two aims with this book: to demonstrate the apostolicity of the Church of the East [stressing the direct connection between Jerusalem and Adiabene, rather than from Antioch as is current thought] and also to demonstrate its Orthodoxy, in the 'rehabilitation' of her Saints, Theodore and Nestorius in particular. I, as a humble layman, can make not comments but my own that it does seem other factors were at play, and can but hope and pray that this book helps to heal the sad rift between the Church of the East and other Churches, and that, in the words of Christ, the Church may be one.
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