Description
Features articles on the tension between the Orthodox and Catholic churches, the Alexandriana or the great library of Alexandria, St. Menas the Wonder-Worker, reviving desert monasticism, and a rare book on the Canons of Nicaea.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Perspectives..7
INTERVIEW My Interview with H. H. Pope Shenouda III..9 Fayek M. Ishak ORTHODOXY AND CATHOLICISM Tension Engendered by Theological Statements on the Exercise of the Primacy..15 Bishop Anba Gregorius COPTIC ORTHODOX SAINTHOOD Saint Mena the Wonder-Worker..35 Fayek M. Ishak DOCTRINAL AND HISTORICAL STUDY The Living Orthodoxy of the Coptic Church..53 Iris Habib el-Masri THE ALEXANDRIANA Reviving the Great Library of Alexandria..57 Fayek M. Ishak DESERT MONASTICISM Notes on the Revival of Upper Egyptian Monasticism..67 Otto F.A. Meinardus COPTIC ART A Note on the Conception per oculum in Coptic Art..77 Otto F.A. Meinardus PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION Secularism, Orthodoxy and Rationality..83 David C. Flagel A RARE BOOK E.A. Wallis Budge, Texts Relating to Saint Mena of Egypt and Canons of Nicaea in a Nubian Dialect..105 Boulos A. Ayad ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS The Monastery of Mar Mena at Mareotis..109 Mounir Shoucri SITE STUDY The Desert Town of Abba Mena..115 Fr. Mina 'Abdalla 'Ebeid LITERATURE The Miracle of St. Mena in Christian Nubian Literature..119 Boulos Ayad Ayad The Cross in Christian Nubian Literature..123 Boulos Ayad Ayad BOOK REVIEWS Alan Jones, Soul Making: the Desert Way of Spirituality..129 Fayek M. Ishak NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS..133
