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Article: A History of Christianity in Asia, vol. 1, Beginnings to 1500.
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- Theological Studies
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- December 1, 1993
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By Samuel Hugh Moffett. San Francisco: Harper, 1992. Pp. xxvi, 560. $45.
Emeritus professor of ecumenics and missions at Princeton Theological Seminary, Moffett emphasizes that church historiography in the West accentuates the expansion of Christianity from Jerusalem to Rome but commonly overlooks the Christians in Asia--i.e. in the ancient kingdoms east of the Euphrates River, including the territories along the Silk Road from Persia to China and the water routes from the Red Sea around Arabia to India. By the 13th century the Church of the East (or the Nestorian Church as "most of the early Asian Christian communities came to be called") had "ecclesiastical ...