Die orientalische Christenheit der Mittelmeerlände

Abstract

THE author spent five months in 1901 in the eastern Mediterranean, investigating at first hand, and at close quarters, the institutions, and the practical working of the Greek, Armenian, and Coptic Churches, and of such other fragments of Christian communions as survive in those parts. He is evidently a good observer and quick worker, and was able to elicit much interesting information, meeting everywhere, as he did, with cordial receptions and assistance. The result is a valuable handbook of an ill-explored section of ecclesiology, full of queer sidelights upon mediæval and modern history, and no less upon the workings of the religious instinct under the peculiarly unfavourable conditions which have prevailed in the Levant for so long. The author's personal knowledge of the working of these curious institutions enables him to supply a number of corrections to Kattenbusch's “Lehrbuch,” and to confirm and expand the observations of Gelzer, von der Goltz, von Soden, and other recent travellers.