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For the Unity of All
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John Panteleimon Manoussakis; Foreword by Patriarch Bartholomew
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Focolare, Community of Sant'Egidio, Neocatechumenal Way,
Legionaries of Christ, Communion and Liberation, Opus Dei. These
are but a few of the most recognizable names in the broader context
of the so-called ecclesial movements. Their history goes back to
the period following the First Vatican Council, crosses Vatican II,
and develops throughout the twentieth century. It is a history that
prepares the movements' rise in the last three decades, from John
Paul II to Francis. These movements are a complex phenomenon that
shapes the Church now more than before, and they play a key role
for the future of Catholicism as a global community, in transition
from a Europe-centered tradition to a world Church.
Little is left that testifies to the life of the Church of the East
in the sixteenth to early nineteenth centuries. What we have, are
manuscripts written by mostly clerical scribes for mostly clerical
readers. There is much that suggests, however, that these texts
functioned in a much wider circle than merely that of the learned.
This study takes the scribal production of texts, from the Holy
Scriptures to the first traces of popular writing, as its main
source to analyze the major changes that took place in the Church
of the East in the period. The most important of these was the
introduction of Western Catholicism, which ultimately led to the
creation of two separate hierarchies, today's Chaldean Church and
the Assyrian Church of the East. How this community dealt with
these monumental changes, how that affected everything from the
production of texts to the fabric of society as a whole, and how
that contributes to our understanding of this Church's modern day
off-shoots, is the topic of this study.
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For the Unity of All
(Paperback)
John Panteleimon Manoussakis; Foreword by Patriarch Bartholomew
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