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Christian Researches in the Mediterranean From 1815 to 1820; In Furtherance of the Objects of the Church Missionary Society
Christian Researches in the Mediterranean From 1815 to 1820 In Furtherance of the Objects of the Church Missionary Society Author:William Jowett General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1822 Subjects: Missions Missions to Muslims History / Middle East / General Religion / Christian Ministry / Missions Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Bo... more »oks edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: EGYPT, MORE ESPECIALLY IN REFERENCE TO THE (Coptic IN the remarks which here follow on the different parts of Egypt, and which were made in the course of Two Visits to that country, the first in 1819 and the second in 1 820, the State of the Copts, as being the Dominant Christian Church, will be found most prominent. As, however, observations occur which have reference, not only to the condition of Maho- medans, but to that of Greeks, Latins, and Armenians, in Egypt ; this part of the Volume will follow a. geographical order. It will be introduced by a retrospect of the History of Christianity in this country, from the period when it became oppressed by the Mahomedans, and assumed that form which it retains to the present day. PREDOMINANCE OF THE COPTIC CHURCH. In studying the History of Christianity in Egypt, after having surveyed its progress and happy effects during the earlier ages, we shall arrive at a period, which seems to have given to the Church in that country, a character maintained by it to the present day. Heresy, after many vicissitudes, sometimes predominating in the Court of Byzantium, at other times wandering in the banishment of the Oases, alternately distracting the repose of Provinces and defying the anathemas of General Councils, fixed, at length, her head-quarters in Egypt. Having survived the attacks of the last General Council, she has maintained her existence for nearly one thousand years, partly in various Churches of Syria and Mesopotamia, hut principally, a...« less