Inculturation Through the Ages IIIB: The Syrian Mission to China
Inculturation Through the Ages IIIB: The Syrian Mission to China Let us praise the Dharma: Dharma King John, Dharma King Luke Dharma King Mark, Dharma King Matthew Dharma King Moses, Dharma King David, Dharma King of Easter, Dharma King Paul Dharma King of the Thousand Peacock Eyes Dharma King Simeon, Dharma King Mar Sergius, Dharma King George, Dharma King Mar Barsauma, Dharma King Simon, and the Twenty Four – Dharma King Henana, Dharma King Hosea Dharma King Michael, Dharma King Silas Dharma King Gur, Dharma King Announcing Teachings – John. Martin Palmer, The Jesus Sutras. (New...
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JACOB, the “gentle and studious” Bishop of Batnan, chief city of Serûgh, a district which lay a little to the east of the river Euphrates, and south-west of Edessa, was born at the village of Kurtam on the Euphrates in the year 451 a.d. He was for many years periodeutes, or visitor, of his district, and was made bishop only late in life (A.D. 519). He died on November 29, 521 1. Jacob was a Monophysite; but he seldom alludes to the great controversy of his day. So little are his writings tainted with the heresy of Eutyches that, like those of his Nestorian contemporary Narsai,...
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