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