ссылки про несторианство

[hgr]

в Средней Азии и Китае

"The Monks of Kublai Khan" is available online:
http://www.uoregon.edu/~sshoemak/324/texts/monks_of_kubla_khan.htm
For other online resources:
By Foot to China by John M.L. Young -- дурацкая книжка пастора, вторичная целиком (несторианство погибло в Китае, т.к. предалось культу мертвых -- стало молиться за усопших); впрочем, кто не читал настоящих работ, может почитать их пересказ у пастора.
http://www.aina.org/books/byfoot.htm
Syriac Christianity by Paul S. Russell
http://www.mari.org/JMS/january01/Syriac_Christianity.htm

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[ex-ilyavinar899.livejournal.com]

Маттео Риччи, кажется, открыл в Китае христиан, которые, чтобы отличаться от мусульман, ели свинину, и делали над ней знак креста.

[hgr.livejournal.com]

очень интересно, спасибо!
а ссылки нет?

[ex-ilyavinar899.livejournal.com]

The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci by Jonathan Spence. Сейчас найду - она у меня в шкафу лежит.

[ex-ilyavinar899.livejournal.com]

The same [tenacious survival of Islam discussed in the last paragraph] was by no means true for the other two religions in this group, Nestorian Christianity and Judaism. Ricci had been surprised to find pockets of Christians in Nanjing and elsewhere in central China, but they amounted to only "five or six families" and seem to have lost almost all their earlier beliefs, making their churches into temples and in many cases even converting to Islam. The only traces of Christianity among most of them were that they seemed to have some knowledge of the psalter and they ate pork, over which they made the sign of the cross.⁸⁶

Вообще замечательная книжка о великом первооткрывателе иной цивилизации, наверное, сравнимого с Колумбом. Он, например, перевёл на китайский геометрию Эвклида, а на латынь - беседы и суждения Конфуция.

[hgr.livejournal.com]

спасибо! здорово.

[ex-ilyavinar899.livejournal.com]

Вам следующий отрывок понравится (речь идёт о католицизме конца 16го века, как о всемирной религии):

It St. Peter's the Jesuits were appointed to hear the confessions of not only the citizens of Rome and other Italians but all pilgrims visiting the holy city. They set up a system for the rotation of bilingual confessors, each fluent in Italian and one other language - English, Polish, French, Spanish, Flemish - the name of this second language being displayed on a placard above the confessional where the priest sat holding a white rod of office. If a pilgrim cound not find a confessor who understood him, one would be summoned from a nearby house of the Penitentiaria, where twelve Jesuits were always on call; and if the need was for an expert in Greek or Syriac or Arabic they called upon Father Baptista Romanus, a recent convert from Judaism, whose newly found Christian faith was matched by his phenomenal language skills. By the 1590s the Jesuits could produce priests to speak in any of the twenty-seven different languages.¹⁰

Мне отец Баптиста Романус кого-то напоминает...

[hgr.livejournal.com]

:-)