Friday 6 January 2012

Letters of the ancient Church in India


  • Timothy I [Patriarch] (727-823). Letters. [‘Nestorian’.] The fullest collection of the 200 letters is held in Trichur, Kerala. Timothy is known to have written hymns, commentaries, dissertations, and disputations on other religions, a few of which have survived. [Asian Christian Theologies 19.]

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  • See also Harp (Kottayam, quarterly) 1987-. 

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