Introduction To The Coptic Orthodox Church

INTRODUCTION TO THE COPTIC ORTHODOX CHURCH......Page 0
BLESSED IS EGYPT MY PEOPLE......Page 5
SONS OF PHARAOHS......Page 8
THE HOLY FAMILY IN EGYPT......Page 11
SEE OF ST. MARK......Page 17
THE COPTIC CHURCH AND THE APOSTOLIC THOUGHT......Page 24
THE COPTS UNDER THE ROMAN PERSECUTION......Page 26
EXAMPLES OF MARTYRS......Page 31
THE SCHOOL OF ALEXANDRIA......Page 37
THE COPTIC CHURCH AND THE ECUMENICAL COUNCIL......Page 51
THE COPTIC CHURCH AND THE MONASTIC MOVEMENT......Page 56
SOME EXAMPLES OF MONASTIC LEADERS......Page 61
3.\r THE COUNCIL OF CHALCEDON......Page 69
EVENTS PRECEDENT TO THE COUNCIL OF CHALCEDON......Page 77
THE MINUTES OF THE COUNCIL......Page 86
COULD THE COUNCIL OF CHALCEDON REALIZE A RECONCILIATION ?......Page 95
AN ALIEN ROYAL PATRIARCH......Page 98
THE CHURCH OF ALEXANDRIA IN THE REIGN OF JUSTINIAN I......Page 106
THE CHURCH OF ALEXANDRIA AFTER THE JUSTINIAN ERA......Page 111
SOME PERSONALITIES OF THAT TIME......Page 114
5. \rFROM THE SEVENTH TO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY......Page 119
THE CENTURIES FROM THE SEVENTH TO THE TENTH......Page 120
COPTIC PERSONALITIES IN THE FOUR CENTURIES (FROM THE 7TH TO THE 10TH)......Page 126
THE FATIMID ERA......Page 139
COPTIC PERSONALITIES DURING THE FATIMID ERA......Page 144
AGES OF CRUSADES......Page 150
COPTIC PERSONALITIES DURING THE AYYUBID AND MAMLUKS ERAS......Page 160
THE TURKISH ERA......Page 176
COPTIC PERSONALITIES DURING THE OTTOMAN ERA......Page 183
THE FRENCH EXPEDITION......Page 193
COPTIC PERSONALITIES FROM THE ERA OF THE FRENCH EXPEDITION......Page 197
THE NINETEENTH CENTURY......Page 200
COPTIC PERSONALITIES IN THE COPTIC PERSONALITIES IN THE......Page 208
SOME PERSONALITIES FROM THE 20TH CENTURY......Page 226
A WORSHIPPING CHURCH......Page 236
THE HOLY BIBLE AND CHURCH WORSHIP......Page 237
THE LITURGICAL WORSHIP IN THE COPTIC CHURCH......Page 241
THE COPTIC FEASTS......Page 246
THE COPTIC CHURCH AND THE SPIRITUALITY OF RITE......Page 256
THE FASTING ORDER IN THE COPTIC CHURCH......Page 261
CHURCH READINGS IN THE COPTIC CHURCH......Page 273
PRIVATE WORSHIP IN THE COPTIC CHURCH......Page 282
ALEXANDRIA AND CHRISTIAN DOGMAS......Page 286
OUR BELIEF IN GOD......Page 292
MAN & REDEMPTION......Page 299
THE CHURCH......Page 303
THE HEAVENLY CREATURES......Page 308
THE SAINTS......Page 312
THE SACRAMENTAL LIFE......Page 316
CHURCH TRADITION......Page 323
THE RýOLE OF THE CONGREGATION IN THE CHURCH......Page 328
THE ROLE OF WOMEN IN THE CHURCH......Page 332
THE CHILD IN THE COPTIC CHURCH......Page 337
THE ECUMENICAL MOVEMENT IN THE EARLY COPTIC CHURCH......Page 342
THE COPTIC CHURCH ABROAD......Page 346
THE COPTIC CULTURE......Page 351
THE COPTIC MUSIC......Page 353
CONTENTS......Page 356