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. This book, the 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…mehr
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. This book, the 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.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Educated at Eton and King's College Cambridge. Taught at the University of Urbino from 1977 to 1992, Professor of the History of the Radical Reformation at the University of Amsterdam from1987 to 2001, and Dr. C. Louise Thijssen-Schoute Professor of the History of Ideas at Leiden University from 1985 to 2005. Now Arcadian Visiting Research Professor at the School of Advanced Study, London University, attached to the Warburg Institute and General Editor of the Arcadian Series (London/Oxford). Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction Part One - The Copts in Egypt 1: An Ancient Church 2: Muslim Domination Part Two - The Missions 3: The Council of Florence 4: The First Jesuit Mission 5: New Approaches 6: Towards a Coptic Catholic Church Part Three - Knowledge of the Copts 7: The First Stages 8: Confessional Clashes I 9: Confessional Clashes II 10: Jansenists and Jesuits 11: Protestants and the Enlightenment Part Four - The Coptic Language 12: Athanasius Kircher and His Shadow 13: Grammars, Dictionaries, and Dialects 14: Manuscript Collecting 15: Biblical Studies Epilogue Bibliography General Index
Introduction Part One - The Copts in Egypt 1: An Ancient Church 2: Muslim Domination Part Two - The Missions 3: The Council of Florence 4: The First Jesuit Mission 5: New Approaches 6: Towards a Coptic Catholic Church Part Three - Knowledge of the Copts 7: The First Stages 8: Confessional Clashes I 9: Confessional Clashes II 10: Jansenists and Jesuits 11: Protestants and the Enlightenment Part Four - The Coptic Language 12: Athanasius Kircher and His Shadow 13: Grammars, Dictionaries, and Dialects 14: Manuscript Collecting 15: Biblical Studies Epilogue Bibliography General Index
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