For some thirty years before the First World War, the Church of England maintained a mission of help to the Assyrian Church of the East (popularly known as the Nestorian church) in its then homeland, a corner of eastern Turkey and north-western Persia. The Mission had a controversial history. At hom...

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Main Author:	Coakley, J. F. 1947- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford Clarendon Press 1992
Subjects:	Archbishop of Canterbury's Assyrian Mission Church of England Nestorian Church Archbishop of Canterbury's Assyrian Mission > History Assyrian Church of the East > Relations > Church of England Church of England > Relations > Assyrian Church of the East Geschichte 1835-1930 Anglicaanse Kerk Assyriërs (christenen) Zending Geschichte Anglican Communion > Relations > Oriental Orthodox churches Missions to Nestorians > History Oriental Orthodox churches > Relations > Anglican Communion Nestorianer Anglikanische Kirche
Summary:	For some thirty years before the First World War, the Church of England maintained a mission of help to the Assyrian Church of the East (popularly known as the Nestorian church) in its then homeland, a corner of eastern Turkey and north-western Persia. The Mission had a controversial history. At home, not everyone could appreciate the rationale of a mission which was to aid an obscure and heretical body and which strictly forbade any conversions from this body to the Anglican church In the field, the missionaries had to do battle with xenophobic governments, with rival American and French missions, and with the Assyrians themselves, whose confidence proved difficult to gain. In some respects the Mission was unsuccessful, but it had notable accomplishments, especially in scholarship and in ecumenical diplomacy
Physical Description:	X, 422 S. Ill.
ISBN:	0198267444