The Story of the Copts: From the Foundation of the Church by Saint Mark to the Arab Conquest

COVER......Page 1
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT......Page 6
INTRODUCTION......Page 7
I. ST. MARK......Page 14
II. THE CHAIR OF ALEXANDRIA......Page 23
III. THE SCHOOL OF ALEXANDRIA......Page 26
IV. A. DEMETRIUS, THE VINEDRESSER......Page 38
B. ORIGEN......Page 42
V. A SERENE SPIRIT......Page 60
VI. DIONYSIUS, A MAN OF UNIVERSAL LEARNING......Page 64
VII. ST. ANTONI, STAR OF THE DESERT & FATHER OF MONKS......Page 80
VIII. BUILDING THE FIRST CHURCH......Page 91
IX. A. PETROS, 17th POPE AND \"SEAL OF THE MARTYRS\"......Page 98
B. \"... SO GREAT A CLOUD OF WITNESSES\"......Page 106
C. ABBA ACHILLAS......Page 122
X. INVINCIBLE FAITH......Page 127
XI. THE GREAT ECUMENICAL COUNCIL......Page 132
XII. ATHANASIUS THE APOSTOLIC......Page 144
XIII. THE ATHANASIAN AGE......Page 202
XIV.  PETROS II, THE SUCCESSOR OF ATHANASIUS......Page 226
XV. THE SECOND ECUMENICAL COUNCIL......Page 233
XVI. AN ORPHAN FROM MEMPHIS BECOMES 23d ALEXA NDRIAN POPE......Page 241
XVII.GREATER STRIVINGS......Page 252
A. At Ephesus......Page 285
B. At Chalcedon......Page 296
C. Reverberations......Page 315
A. Abba Timotheos II......Page 324
B. Abba Petros III......Page 328
XX. FLUCTUATING FORTUNES OF THE COPTS......Page 333
XXI. THE LAST DECADES OF THE EASTERN EMPIRE’S RULE......Page 357
TABLE OF CONTENTS......Page 363
BACK COVER......Page 371