Description
Contains studies on the See of St. Mark and its contribution to the universal church, St. Makarios the Great, and pharaonisms in Neo-Coptic Iconography.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Perspectives..7
COPTIC ORTHODOXY
The See of St. Mark and its Contribution to the Universal Church..9
Paulos Mar Gregorios
INTERVIEWS
My Interview with His grace Bishop Gregorios..15
My Interview with His Reverence Fr. Matta al-Maskîn..25
Fayek M. Ishak
COPTIC SAINTHOOD
Saint Macarius the Great..39
Bishop Anba Gregorios
LITURGICAL STUDY
The Eucharist in the Historical Experience of the Copts..53
Otto F.A. Meinardus
MANUSCRIPT STUDY
On Prayer..75
Fayek M. Ishak
CHURCH AND STATE
Politics by Idolatory or by Reason: The Case of Constantine..83
Mourad Wahba
MYSTICAL PHILOSOPHY
Spinoza and Blake: Two Expressions of Mystical Insight..89
J. Douglass Rabb
THE DIVINE PILGRIMAGE
The Meaning and End of the Revelatory Quest for God..99
Fayek M. Ishak
ICONOGRAPHY
Pharaonisms in Neo-Coptic Iconography..111
Otto F.A. Meinardus
NUBIAN LIERATURE
The Nicene Canons in Christian Nubian Literature..119
Boulos Ayad Ayad
OBITUARY
The Late Professor Ragaei W. el-Mallakh: A True Coptic Scholar..125
Boulos Ayad Ayad
REVIEW ARTICLES
Matthew the Poor, The Communion of Love..129
Fayek M. Ishak
Daniel J. Sahas, Icon and Logos: Sources in Eighth-Century Iconoclasm..134
Fayek M. Ishak
BOOK REVIEWS
The Syrian Fathers on Prayer and the Spiritual Life, intro. & trans. Sebastian Brock..139
Fayek M. Ishak
S.J. Alexis Mallon, Grammaire Copte..142
Boulos Ayad Ayad
Fouad Guirguis, The Difficult Years of Survival..144
Soliman Nessim, al-Aqbat wal Ta'lim fi Misr al-Hadithah ("the Copts and Education in Modern Egypt") in Arabic..146
BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Works of Bishop Gregorios..149
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS..159
