Ethnic Realities and the Church: Lessons from Kurdistan : a Historical Study of Missionary Work, 1668-1990
- Title
- Ethnic Realities and the Church: Lessons from Kurdistan : a Historical Study of Missionary Work, 1668-1990
- Creator
- Robert Blincoe
- Date
- 1998
- Description
- Blincoe writes that in the 19th century Anglican missionaries promoted the name “Assyrian” for members of the Church of the East who did not join the Roman Catholic communion. They saw it as a less pejorative alternative to “Nestorian.” Earlier labels such as “Chaldean” for those in communion with Rome and “Nestorian” for those who were not referred mainly to church affiliation and geography, not to ancient ethnic descent. Blincoe concludes that modern Assyrians and Chaldeans should not be regarded as direct descendants of the ancient Assyrians or Chaldeans.
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Ethnic Realities and the Church: Lessons from Kurdistan : a Historical Study of Missionary Work, 1668-1990, Robert Blincoe, 1998, p. 28 and 232.
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- Item sets
- assyrians
