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Narratives of Identity - The Syrian Orthodox Church and the Church of England 1895-1914 (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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Narratives of Identity - The Syrian Orthodox Church and the Church of England 1895-1914 (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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The relationship between the Syrian Orthodox Church in the Ottoman
Empire and the Church of England developed substantially between
1895 and 1914, as contacts between them grew. As the character of
this emerging relationship changed, it contributed to the formation
of both churches' own 'narratives of identity'. The wider context
in which this took place was a period of instability in the
international order, particularly within the Ottoman Empire,
culminating in the outbreak of the First World War, effectively
bringing this phase of sustained contact to an end. Narratives of
Identity makes use of Syriac, Garshuni, and Arabic primary sources
from Syrian Orthodox archives in Turkey and Syria, alongside
Ottoman documents from the Basbakanlik Osmanli Arsivi, Istanbul,
and a range of English archival sources. The preconceptions of both
Churches are analysed, using a philosophical framework provided by
the work of Paul Ricoeur, especially his concepts of significant
memory (anamnesis), translation, and the search for mutual
recognition. Anamnesis and translation were extensively employed in
the formation of 'narratives of identity' that needed to be
understood by both Churches. The identity claims of the Tractarian
section of the Church of England and of the Ottoman Syrian Orthodox
Church are examined using this framework. The detailed content of
the theological dialogue between them, is then examined, and placed
in the context of the rapidly changing demography of eastern
Anatolia, the Syrian Orthodox 'heartland'. The late Ottoman state
was characterised by an increased instability for all its
non-Muslim minorities, which contributed to the perceived threats
to Ottoman Syrian Orthodoxy, both from within and without. Finally,
a new teleological framework is proposed in order to better
understand these exchanges, taking seriously the amamnetic insights
of the narratives of identity of both the Syrian Orthodox Church
and the Church of England from 1895 to 1914.
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