John Stewart (11) (1861–)
Autor(a) de The Church of the East (An Edited and Condensed Version of Nestorian Missionary Enterprise)
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Obras de John Stewart
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1861
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- Scotland
- Local de nascimento
- Abercorn, West Lothian, Scotland, UK
- Locais de residência
- Chennai, India
- Educação
- University and New College, Edinburgh
- Pequena biografia
- Born at Abercorn, Linlithgowshire, 1861. Studied at the University and New College, Edinburgh. Ordained, 1892, missionary to Madras. [List of missionaries says he was ordained 1893.] Stationed at Rayapuram. Married, the same year, Elizabeth M. Jennings.
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 2
- Membros
- 101
- Popularidade
- #188,710
- Avaliação
- 2.0
- Resenhas
- 1
- ISBNs
- 215
- Idiomas
- 6
The version I have was edited by John Holzmann and the entire book, read as a whole, doesn't flow well. Each chapter starts from the beginning of time for that area and so you may read about 655 AD in numerous chapters. I see why he did it this way, but a timeline would have been helpful, even beneficial.
Some chapters were far more interesting to me than others, such as chapters 9 and 10 regarding Buddhism and Mongols, respectively.
I'm not Catholic and so a lot of their church history is unfamiliar to me. I did however enjoy the appendices more than the actual book. I still wouldn't recommend the book though, unless you're Catholic and have a yearning to learn about Nastorius; the missionary and persecutions.
There were two errors that bothered me about the book. pg 84 and the mention of muslims (AD 522) before muhammad was born and pg. 89 I Corinthians1:18 seems to be loosely translated, because I couldn't find any version online worded the way it was online, and the so called devil is in the details and how it was worded makes a big difference.… (mais)