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This study examines the political role of the two main Christian communities in the Middle East, the Copts and the Maronites. Current theoretical debates on the relationship between religion and politics, as well as secularization and the role of religious pluralism in state formation and national integration, are presented.

Catholic Church -- Maronite rite -- Middle East. --- Christianity and politics -- Middle East -- Case studies. --- Coptic Church. --- Middle East -- Church history. --- Religion and politics -- Middle East. --- Christianity and politics --- Religion and politics --- Catholic Church --- Maronite rite --- Middle East --- Church history.

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Etudes consacrées aux églises, à la fois monuments et lieux de prière et d'identité des communautés de langue syriaque. L'ouvrage propose une vue panoramique des régions où se développèrent ces communautés ainsi qu'un inventaire du patrimoine architectural qui leur est lié.

Syriac Christians --- Chrétiens syriaques --- Congresses --- Congrès --- Syrian churches --- Church buildings --- History --- Middle East --- Church history --- Antiquities --- Chrétiens syriaques --- Congrès --- Antiquities. --- Church buildings. --- Kirchenbau. --- Sakralbau. --- Syriac Christians. --- Syrian churches. --- Syrische Kirchen. --- Middle East. --- Syriac Christians - Middle East - History - Congresses --- Syrian churches - History - Congresses --- Church buildings - Middle East - History - Congresses --- Middle East - Church history - Congresses --- Middle East - Antiquities - Congresses

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The "holy poor" have long maintained an elite status within Christianity. Differing from the "real" poor, these clergymen, teachers, and ascetics have historically been viewed by their fellow Christians as persons who should receive material support in exchange for offering immeasurable immaterial benefits—teaching, preaching, and prayer. Supporting them—quite as much as supporting the real poor—has been a way to accumulate eventual treasure in heaven. Yet from the rise of Christian monasticism in Egypt and Syria to present day, Christians have argued fiercely about whether monks should work to support themselves. In Treasure in Heaven, renowned historian Peter Brown shifts attention from Western to Eastern Christianity, introducing us to this smoldering debate that took place across the entire Middle East from the Euphrates to the Nile. Seen against the backdrop of Asia, Christianity might have opted for a Buddhist model by which holy monks lived by begging alone. Instead, the monks of Egypt upheld an alternative model that linked the monk to humanity and the monastery to society through acceptance of the common, human bond of work. This model of Third World Christianity—a Christianity that we all too easily associate with the West—eventually became the basis for the monasticism of western Europe, as well as for modern Western attitudes to charity and labor. In Treasure in Heaven, Brown shows how and why we are still living—at times uncomfortably—with that choice.

Poverty --- Church work with the poor. --- Church history --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- Primitive and early church. --- 30-600 --- Middle East --- Middle East. --- Church history. --- Church work with the poor --- Christianity --- 30-600. --- Poverty - Religious aspects - Christianity --- Church history - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 --- Pauvreté monastique --- Middle East - Church history

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This book tells a surprising story. Many think of Christianity as a Western faith, which grew out of its origins in the Middle East towards Rome and into Europe, paving the way for the Enlightenment, science and modernity. However, Philip Jenkins reveals, the largest and most influential churches of Christianity's youth lay to the east of Rome, covered the world from China to North Africa, encountered a full spectrum of acceptance to persecution under Islamic rule and only expired after a thousand-year reign after Constantine. This is the story of these churches of the East and how they became extinct - but not before becoming the dominant expression of Christianity for its first 1,000 years and helping to shape both the Asia and the Christianity we know today.

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Middle East --- Church history --- Church history. --- #GBIB: jesuitica --- 27 <394.7> --- 276 =927 --- Kerkgeschiedenis--Arabia deserta --- Arabische patrologie. Arabische christelijke literatuur --- Asia, South West --- Asia, Southwest --- Asia, Western --- East (Middle East) --- Eastern Mediterranean --- Fertile Crescent --- Levant --- Mediterranean Region, Eastern --- Mideast --- Near East --- Northern Tier (Middle East) --- South West Asia --- Southwest Asia --- Orient --- Asia, West --- West Asia --- Western Asia --- Samir, Khalil Samir --- Middle East - Church history