Coptic Saints and Pilgrimages – Otto Friedrich August Meinardus Shop Nu

The Coptic Christian tradition is one that goes back almost two thousand years to the very beginnings of Mark the Evangelist himself is said to have brought the faith to Alexandria. In his Two Thousand Years of Coptic Christianity (AUC Press, 1999), renowned scholar Otto Meinardus reviewed the history of the official church from its earliest days to the end of the twentieth century, with its doctrinal disputes and its long isolation from other world churches. Here in Coptic Saints and Pilgrims, he examines …