The Church of the East in Central Asia and China

by Samuel N. C. Lieu

The diffusion of Christianity along the Silk Road from Iraq and Iran to China in the pre-modern era has attracted scholarly attention in the West since the discovery of the famous Xi'an (Nestorian) Monument c. 1623. This initial discovery was dismissed as a 'Jesuit forgery' by Voltaire, Edward Gibbon and many other scholars of the Enlightenment. However, its authenticity has been more than vindicated by the discovery of genuine (Nestorian / Jingjiao)...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 2503586643
• ISBN13: 9782503586649
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: Brepols Publishers
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.