2009, ISBN: 9781150191053

Volume: v. 5General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1912Original Publisher: C. Scribner's sons Subjects: SyriaPalestineHistory / Middle East / GeneralReligion / Com… Mehr…

Volume: v. 5General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1912Original Publisher: C. Scribner's sons Subjects: SyriaPalestineHistory / Middle East / GeneralReligion / Comparative ReligionReligion / HistoryReligion / Islam / GeneralReligion / Christianity / OrthodoxSocial Science / Islamic Studies Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing Volume: v. 5General Books publication date: 2009Original publication date: 1912Original Publisher: C. Scribner's sons Subjects: SyriaPalestineHistory / Middle East / GeneralReligion / Comparative ReligionReligion / HistoryReligion / Islam / GeneralReligion / Christianity / OrthodoxSocial Science / Islamic Studies Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III THE RITUAL OF THE EASTERN CHURCHES Introductory Note In considering the ritual of the five chief Eastern churches of Syria and Palestine, we shall find that we are dealing with three types only: the Greek, the Syrian, and the Maronite, for the Greek Catholic and the Syrian Catholic communions made little alteration in the ritual practised by the churches whose authority they exchanged for that of Rome. Indeed, broadly speaking, the types are only two, the Byzantine and the Syrian. Up to the twelfth century the history of the Maronites formed but a part of the general history of the Syrian Church, and to this day they have in common a number of anaphora, or liturgies, while their other services are similar. The official language of the Holy Orthodox Church, with its derivative, the Greek Catholic Melchite Church, is the Ancient Greek. The main service books, however, have been translated into the national languages of all the countries where the Greek Church is organized. The natives of Syria and Palestine have a peculiar advantage in their Arabic versions. The ability of the common people to understand the services varies much with different countries. In Bulgaria, for example, the translation was made into the ancient Slavic language, little of which is now comprehensible to the Books, History~~General, Religions-Of-Modern-Syria-And-Palestine-Lectures-Delivered-Before-Lake-Forest-College-On-The-Foundation-Of-The-Late-William-Bross~~Frederick-Jones-Bliss, , , , , , , , , , General Books LLC<

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