The Inside Assyria Discussion Forum #5

=> from the archives...

from the archives...
Posted by pancho (Moderator) - Thursday, February 23 2012, 23:23:33 (UTC)
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...we here are so eager to discuss and debate and write about this exciting history, I mean the real one, that I couldn't wait to get to the library and so checked the archives and found one, little short, quote...but it hints at what there is plenty more of...it is taken from Will Durant's "The Story of Civilization", volume IV, "The Age of Faith"....a 1054 page book of inestimable value for any serious student of history who also appreciates fine writing...


Chapter III, page 49

“To perfect the confusion, the majority of the Christians of Syria and Egypt refused to accept the doctrines of two natures in the one person of Christ. The monks of Syria continued to teach the Monophysite heresy, and when an orthodox bishop was appointed to the see of Alexandria he was torn to pieces in his church on Good Friday.”

“Thereafter Monophysitism became the national religion of Christian Egypt and Abyssinia, and by the sixth century predominated in western Syria and Armenia, while Nestorianism grew in Mesopotamia and eastern Syria. The success of the religious rebellion strengthened political revolt; and when the conquering Arabs, in the seventh century, poured into Egypt and the Near East, half the population welcomed them as liberators from the theological, political, and financial tyranny of the Byzantine capital.”


...just a taste....get ready for a meal.



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