The Catholic Eastern churches : Attwater, Donald, 1892-1977 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive (original) (raw)

xx, 308 pages 23 cm

This volume is a presentation, published in the mid-1930s of "the history, religious life, and present state of the Eastern [Catholic] church". The Eastern Catholic Churches are autonomous, self-governing, and in full communion with the Pope. Together with the Latin Church, they compose the worldwide Catholic Church. They preserve some centuries-old eastern liturgical, devotional and theological traditions, shared in most cases with the various other Eastern Christian churches with which they were once associated. Historically, Eastern Catholic Churches were located in Eastern Europe, the Asian Middle East, Northern Africa and India. The terms Oriental Catholic and Eastern Catholic include these, but are broader, since they also cover Catholics who follow the Alexandrian, Antiochian, Armenian and Chaldean liturgical traditions

Includes bibliographical references and index

Preface by the general editor -- Introduction -- List of illustrations -- 1. East and West before the Schism -- 2. East and West after the Schism -- 3. The eastern Catholics -- 4. The Byzantine Rite : liturgy and customs -- 5. Catholic churches of the Byzantine Rite. The Italo-Greeks -- The Ruthenians -- The Podcarpathian Ruthenians -- The Hungarians -- The Yugoslavs -- The Rumanians -- The Melkites -- The Greeks -- The Bulgars -- The Russians -- Other Byzantine elements -- 6. The Alexandrian Rite. The Copts (Egypt) -- The Ethiopians (Abyssinia) -- 7. The Antiochene Rite. The Syrians (Syria, Irak) -- The Maronires (Syria) -- The Malankarese (India) -- 8. The Armenian Rite -- 9. The Chaldean Rite. The Chaldeans (Irak, Syria) -- The Malabarese (India) -- 10. Eastern monasticism -- 11. Reunion of the East -- Appendix. Statistical summary of the Eastern churches -- General bibliography -- Glossary -- Index