This study historicizes the formation of the Syrian Orthodox Church. Menze shows that the sixth century separation of the Syrian Orthodox Christians from Western Christianity took place because of divergent political and ecclesiastical interests of bishops and emperors. Roman emperors proved to be unable to hold the papacy in the West, the later Greek Orthodox and the Syrian Christians in the East together in one belief. The result was (religious) violence, discrimination and persecution of the Syrian Christians which forced them to establish an independent church.
Author(s): Volker L. Menze
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 327
Contents......Page 10
Abbreviations......Page 11
Introduction......Page 12
1. The Schism of the Non-Chalcedonians......Page 23
2. The Libellus of Hormisdas: a Remodelling of the Past......Page 69
3. Monks and Monasteries......Page 117
4. Towards a Church: Sacraments, Canons, Liturgy, and Priests......Page 156
5. Syrian Orthodox Commemoration of the Past......Page 205
Conclusion: Justinian, the Syrian Orthodox 536–553, and Subsequent Perceptions of the Sixth-Century Schism......Page 258
Bibliography......Page 288
A......Page 318
C......Page 319
D......Page 320
H......Page 321
J......Page 322
M......Page 323
P......Page 324
S......Page 325
T......Page 326
Z......Page 327
