The Copts and the West, 1439-1822
The European Discovery of the Egyptian Church
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 4 December 2014
- ISBN 9780198727538
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages356 pages
- Size 216x139x21 mm
- Weight 444 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 1 map 0
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Short description:
This first full study of the subject discusses how 17C Catholic missionaries tried to force the Copts (Egyptian members of the Church of Alexandria) into union with the Church of Rome, and the slow accumulation of knowledge of Coptic beliefs, undertaken by Catholics and Protestants. Includes a survey of the study of the Coptic language in the West.
MoreLong description:
In seventeenth-century Europe the Copts, or the Egyptian members of the Church of Alexandria, were widely believed to hold the key to an ancient wisdom and an ancient theology. Their language was thought to lead to the deciphering of the hieroglyphs and their Church to retain traces of early Christian practices as well as early Egyptian customs. Now available in paperback for the first time, this first, full-length study of the subject, discusses the attempts of Catholic missionaries to force the Church of Alexandria into union with the Church of Rome and the slow accumulation of knowledge of Coptic beliefs, undertaken by Catholics and Protestants. It ends with a survey of the study of the Coptic language in the West and of the uses to which it was put by Biblical scholars, antiquarians, theologians, and Egyptologists.
This is a book of great depth and importance that illuminates the manner in which ideas were appropriated and transmitted in early-modern Europe.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Part One - The Copts in Egypt
An Ancient Church
Muslim Domination
Part Two - The Missions
The Council of Florence
The First Jesuit Mission
New Approaches
Towards a Coptic Catholic Church
Part Three - Knowledge of the Copts
The First Stages
Confessional Clashes I
Confessional Clashes II
Jansenists and Jesuits
Protestants and the Enlightenment
Part Four - The Coptic Language
Athanasius Kircher and His Shadow
Grammars, Dictionaries, and Dialects
Manuscript Collecting
Biblical Studies
Epilogue
Bibliography
General Index
