The Church of the East (“Nestorian”)

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Badger, George Percy. The Nestorians and their rituals. 2 vols. London: J. Masters, 1853. 

Baum, Wilhelm. The Church of the East: a concise history. RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. 

Baumer, Christoph. The Church of the East: An Illustrated History of Assyrian Christianity. New ed. London: I.B. Tauris, 2016.

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Bird, Isabella L. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan : including a summer in the Upper Karun region and a visit to the Nestorian Rayahs. London: John Murray, 1891. 

Brock, S. P. ‘The “Nestorian” Church: a lamentable misnomer’. Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester 78:3 (Autumn 1996): 23-35. 

Browne, Lawrence. E. The eclipse of Christianity in Asia from the time of Muhammed till the fourteenth century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1933. 

Bruggeman, Antonio. ‘Christian churches in early Muslim times’. Sevartham 20 (1995): 89-98. 

Budge, E. A. Wallis. The Monks of Kúblái Khán Emperor of China. Or The History of the Life and Travels of Rabban Sawma, Envoy and Plenipotentiary of the Mongol Khans to the Kings of Europe, and Markos who as Mar Yahbh-Allaha III became Patriarch of the Nestorian Church in Asia. The Religious Tract Society, 1928. 

Bundy, David D. ‘Missiological reflections on Nestorian Christianity in China during the Tang Dynasty’. In Religion in the Pacific era. Edited by Frank K. Flinn and Tyler Hendricks. New York: Paragon House, 1985. 

Burkitt, F. Crawford. Early Eastern Christianity. London: John Murray, 1904. 

Cable, A. Mildred. ‘Central Asia as a mission field’. International Review of Mission 18 (1929): 179-187. 

Cary-Elwes, Columbia. China and the cross: studies in missionary history. London: Longmans, 1957. 

Ching, Julia. Chinese religions. London: Macmillan, 1993. 

Coakley, J. F. ‘The Church of the East since 1914’. Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester 78:3 (Autumn 1996): 179-186. 

Couling, Charlotte Eliza. The luminous religion: a study of Nestorian Christianity in China, with a translation of the inscription upon the Nestorian tablet. London, 1935 (1925?). 

Covell, R. R. ‘Trickle-down evangelism’. Christian History 52, 15/4 (1995): 

Day, Peter D. Eastern Christian liturgies: The Armenian, Coptic, Ethiopian, and Syrian rites; Eucharistic rites with introductory notes and rubrical instructions. Shannon: Irish University Press, 1972. 

Drijvers, H. J. W. East of Antioch: studies in early Syriac Christianity. London: Variorum Reprints, 1984. 

Ebied, R. Y. and M. J. L. Young. A treatise in Arabic on the Nestorian Patriarchs. Le Muséon – Revue D’Etudes Orientales. Extract du tome LXXXVII, 102. Louvain, 1974. 

England, John C. The hidden history of Christianity in Asia: the churches of the East before 1500. Delhi: ISPCK and Hong Kong: CCA, 1998. 

Erhart, Victoria L. ‘The Church of the East during the period of the four rightly-guided Caliphs’. Bulletin of the John Rylands university library of Manchester 78:3 (Autumn 1996): 55-71. 

Every, George. Understanding Eastern Christianity. London: SCM, 1980. 

Fischer, Robert H. A tribute to Arthur Vööbus: studies in early Christian literature and its environment, primarily in the Syrian East. Chicago: Lutheran School of Theology, 1977. 

Foltz, Richard C. Religions of the Silk Road: overland trade and cultural exchange from antiquity to the fifteenth century. New York: St Martin’s Press, 1999. 

Fortescue, A. The lesser Eastern churches. London, 1913. 

Fortescue, Adrian. The Uniate Eastern Churches: the Byzantine rite in Italy, Sicily, Syria and Egypt. London: Burns Oates and Washbourne, 1923. 

Foster, John. The church of the T’ang dynasty. New York: Macmillan, 1939. 

Foster, John. ‘The Triumphs and Failures of the Church of the East’. In History’s lessons for tomorrow’s missions. Edited by Audrey Abrecht. Geneva: WSCF, 1960, 51-60. 

Foster, John. Church History 2, AD500-1500: setback and recovery. TEF Study Guide, 8. London: SPCK, 1974. 

Fry, George C. ‘Christianity in Asia’. In Great Asian religions. Edited by George C. Fry et. al. 

Gelston, A. ‘The origin of the Anaphora of Nestorius: Greek or Syriac?’. Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester 78:3 (Autumn 1996): 73-86. 

Gilman, Ian and Hans-Joachim Klimkeit. Christians in Asia before 1500. Richmond, Surrey:, 1999. 

Griffith, S. H. ‘The Muslim philosopher Al-Kindi and his Christian readers: three Arabic Christian texts on “The Dissipation of Sorrows”’. Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester 78:3 (Autumn 1996): 111-. 

Grousset, René. The empire of the steppes: a history of Central Asia. Translated from the French by Naomi Walford. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1970. 

Harris, Paula. ‘Nestorian community, spirituality, and mission’. In Global missiology for the 21st century: the Iguassu dialogue. Edited by William D. Taylor. Grand Rapids: Baker, 2000, 495-501. 

Hill, Christopher. ‘The Oriental Orthodox Churches and the Assyrian Church of the East and early Lambeth Conferences’. In Light from the east: a symposium on the Oriental Orthodox and Assyrian Churches. Edited by Henry Hill. Toronto: Anglican Book Centre, 1988, 132-155. 

Hill, Henry. ‘The Assyrians: the Church of the East’. In Light from the east: a symposium on the Oriental Orthodox and Assyrian Churches. Edited by Henry Hill. Toronto: Anglican Book Centre, 1988, 100-131. 

Holm, F. V. My Nestorian adventure in China. 1923. 

Hunter, Erica C. D. ‘The Church of the East in Central Asia’. Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester 78:3 (Autumn 1996): 129-142. 

Irvin, Dale T. and Scott W. Sunquist. History of the world Christian movement, Volume 1: earliest Christianity to 1453. Maryknoll: Orbis, 2001. 

Joseph, John B. The Nestorians and their Muslim neighbours. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1961. 

Keevak, Michael. The story of a stele: China’s Nestorian monument and its reception in the West, 1625-1916. Hong Kong University Press, 2008. 

Kemp, Hugh P. Steppe by step: Mongolia’s Christians – from ancient roots to vibrant young church. London: Monarch Books, 2000. 

Kidd, B. J. The Churches of Eastern Christendom: from AD 451 to the present time. London: Faith Press, 1927. 

Latourette, Kenneth Scott. A history of Christian missions in China. Taiwan: Ch’eng-wen, 1929. 

Latourette, Kenneth Scott. A History of the Expansion of Christianity. 7 vols. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1970. 

Lee, S. K. ‘Nestorianism in China’. Ching Feng 16/3 & 4 (1973) 

Loofs, Friedrich. Nestorius and his place in the history of Christian doctrine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1914. 

Maclean, A. J. and W. H. Browne. The Catholicos of the East and his people. London: SPCK, 1982. 

McGuckin, J. A. ‘Nestorius and the political factions of fifth-century Byzantium: factors in his personal downfall’. Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester 78:3 (Autumn 1996): 7-21. 

Mingana, A. ‘An important Old Turki manuscript in the John Rylands Library’, Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester (1919?): 129-138. 

Mingana, A. ‘Synopsis of Christian doctrine in the fourth century according to Theodore of Mopsuestia’. Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester 5:3&4 (April-November 1919): 296-316. 

Mingana, A. ‘The early spread of Christianity in Central Asia and the Far East: a new document’. Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester. 9:2 (July 1925): 297-371. 

Mingana, A. ‘An ancient Syriac translation of the Kur’an’. Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester. 9 (1925): 188. 

Mingana, A. ‘A charter of protection granted to the Nestorian church in AD 1138’. Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester. 10 (1926): 127. 

Mingana, A. ‘Biblical gleanings from the forthcoming catalogue of Syriac Mss.’. Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester. (1931): 177. 

McCullough, W. Stewart. A short history of Syriac Christianity to the rise of Islam. Chico, CA: Scholars Press, 1982. 

Moffett, Samuel Hugh. ‘The earliest Asian Christianity’. Missiology 3 (October 1975): 415-430. 

Moffett, Samuel Hugh. ‘Mission in an East Asian context’. Princeton Seminary Bulletin 3 (1982): 242-251. 

Moffett, Samuel Hugh. A history of Christianity in Asia. Volume 1: beginnings to 1500. San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1992. 

Moffett, Samuel Hugh. ‘Early Asian approaches to non-Christian cultures’. Missiology 15 (October 1997): 473-486. 

Moosa, S. H. ‘Nestorian church’. In The encyclopedia of religion. 16 vols. Edited by Mircea Eliade et. al. New York: Macmillan, 1987. 

Moule, A. C. Nestorians in China.Moule, A. C. Christians in China before the year 1550. London: SPCK, 1930.Muraoka, Takamitsu. Abr-Nahrain. 

Napper, Joyce. Christianity in the Middle East. rev. ed. Larnaca: Middle East Christian Outreach, 1996. 

Narsai. ‘Statutes of the school of Nisibis’. In Papers of the Estonian theological school in exile, vol. 12. Edited and translated by A. Vööbus. Stockholm: ETSE, 1958. 

Neale, J. M. A history of the Holy Eastern Church. London, 1896. 

Neill, Stephen. A history of Christian missions. 2nd edn. London: Penguin Books, 1990. 

Nestorius, Patriarch of Constantinople. The bazaar of Heracleides, newly translated from the Syriac and edited with an introduction, notes & appendices by G. R. Driver & Leonard Hodgson. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1925. Wipf & Stock Publishers (April 2002) 

Nichols, Aidan, OP. Rome and the Eastern Churches: a study in schism. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1992. 

Pakenham-Walsh, William Sandford. Nestorius and the Nestorian mission in China. American Presbyterian Mission Press, 1908. 

Palmer, Martin. The Jesus sutras: rediscovering the lost religion of Taoist China. 

Parker, E. H. China and religion. London: John Murray, 1910. 

Parry, K. ‘Images in the Church of the East: the evidence from Central Asia and China’. Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester 78:3 (Autumn 1996): 143-162. 

Polo, Marco. The travels of Marco Polo. Translated by Ronald Latham. Penguin, 1958. 

Saeki, P. Y. The Nestorian monument in China. London: SPCK, 1916. 

Saeki, P. Yoshio. The Nestorian documents and relics in China. Tokyo: Toho Bunkwa Gakuin: the Academy of Oriental Culture, Tokyo Institute, 1937. 

Saeki, P. Yoshio. The Nestorian documents and relics in China. 2nd ed. Tokyo: Maruzen, 1951. 

Standaert, Nicolas. Handbook of Christianity in China, volume one: 635-1800. Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, 2001. 

Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn. Lectures on the history of the Eastern church. Everyman’s Library. London: J. M. Dent, 1907?  E.P. Dutton & Co (1924) 

Michigan Historical Reprint Series. Lectures on the history of the Eastern church, with an introduction on the study of ecclesiastical history, by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley. Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library (December 22, 2005). 

Stewart, John. Nestorian missionary enterprise: the story of a church on fire. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1928. 

Surma d’Bait, Mar Shimun. Assyrian Church customs and the murder of Mar Shimun. London: Faith Press, 1920. 

Tisserant, E. Eastern Christianity in India. 1957. 

Vine, Aubrey R. An approach to Christology: an interpretation and development of some elements in the metaphysic and Christology of Nestorius as a way of approach to an orthodox Christology compatible with modern thought. London: Independent Press, 1948. 

Vine, A. R. The Nestorian churches: a concise history of Nestorian Christianity in Asia from the Persian schism to the modern Assyrians. London: Independent Press, 1948. 

Vööbus, A. A history of the school of Nisibis. Louvain: CSCO, 1965. 

Wallis-Budge, E. A. The monks of Kublai Khan, Emperor of China. London: Religious Tract Society, 1928. 

Wiest, Jean-Paul. ‘Learning from the missionary past’. In The Catholic Church in modern China. Edited by E. Tang. 

Wigram, W. A. An introduction to the history of the Assyrian church, or, the Church of the Sassanid empire 100-640 A.D. London: SPCK, 1910. 

Wigram, W. A. The Assyrians and their neighbours. London: G. Bell and Sons, 1929. 

Wilken, R. L. ‘Nestorianism’. The encyclopedia of religion. 16 vols. Edited by Mircea Eliade et. al. New York: Macmillan, 1987. 

Williams, A. V. ‘Zoroastrians and Christians in Sasanian Iran’. Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester 78:3 (Autumn 1996): 37-53. 

Wilmshurst, David. The martyred church: a history of the Church of the East. East & West Publishing, 2011. 

Ye’or, Bat. The decline of eastern Christianity under Islam: from jihad to dhimmitude. Translated by Miriam Kochan and David Littman. London: Associated University Presses, 1996. 

Young, John M. L. By foot to China: mission of the Church of the East, to 1400. Tokyo: Radiopress, 1984. 

Zernov, Nicolas. Eastern Christendom: a study of the origin and development of the Eastern Orthodox Church. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1961. 

 

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