The Maronites in History

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Originally published in 1986, The Maronites in History addressed what author Matti Moosa identified as a Maronite crisis of identity in the Lebanese cultural context. Offering a historical perspective on the whole of Maronite heritage and culture, Moosa sought to tell the relatively unknown story of one branch of the Syriac Christian tradition. In making known the history of his people, Moosa brought the past to light for students and scholars of the history of Christianity and the Middle East and offered hope in troubled times for a community struggling to come to meaningful terms with itself in the midst of cultural upheaval. Contents Preface Introduction 1. Origin of the Term Maronite 2. The Identity of the Ascetic Marun 3. The Monastery of Marun 4. Earliest Sources on the Monastery of Marun 5. Maronite Claims and Sixth-Century Epistolary Documents 6. The Council of Constantinople of A.D. 536 and the Letter of the Monks of Syria Secunda to Pope Hormisda 7. The Maronites and Saint Simon the Stylite 8. Peter the Fuller and the Trisagion Dispute 9. Signatories to the Letter of the Monks to Pope Hormisda and Related Documents from the Council 10. The Maronites and the Letters of the Monks from Syria Secunda 11. Were the Monks of the Monastery of Marun Chalcedonians? 12. Heraclius and the Monothelitic Formula of Faith 13. The Malkites, the Maronites, and the Sixth Council 14. Establishment of the Maronites as a Separate Church 15. Who is John Marun? 16. John Marun: Was He a Patriarch of Antioch? 17. John Marun's Writings 18. Was John Marun a Canonized Saint? 19. The Relation of the Maronites to the Mardaites and the Jarajima 20. The Maronites and Monothelitism 21. The Relation of the Maronites to the Church of Rome 22. The Mission of Fra Gryphon and Other Franciscans to the Maronites 23. The Mission of Giovanni Battista Eliano to the Maronites 24. The Mission of Jerome Dandini to the Maronites 25. The Latinization of the Maronite Church 26. The Maronites in Modern Times Notes Bibliography Index