On the Errors of the East Syrians (by Francisco Ros SJ, 1586): An Introduction with English Translation of a Latin-Syriac Treatise from Early Modern Malabar
This documentary exposition features a recently uncovered and identified treatise from the early modern period. Translated into English here in full for the first time, the work was written in Latin and Syriac by Francisco Ros SJ with the title, De Syrorum orientalium erroribus. Principally of a the...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Institution of Catholic Studies
2022
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Archivum historicum Societatis Iesu
Year: 2022, Volume: 91, Issue: 181, Pages: 187-221 |
| IxTheo Classification: | KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KBM Asia KDB Roman Catholic Church RJ Mission; missiology SA Church law; state-church law |
| Further subjects: | B
Counter-Reformation
B Ros, Francisco B Theology B Missionaries B Venturi, Tacchi |
| Summary: | This documentary exposition features a recently uncovered and identified treatise from the early modern period. Translated into English here in full for the first time, the work was written in Latin and Syriac by Francisco Ros SJ with the title, De Syrorum orientalium erroribus. Principally of a theological nature, the manuscript is preserved at ARSI under Fondo Tacchi Venturi. Written and dispatched from India in 1586 by the Catalonian missionary from the Jesuit province of Aragon, the work and its author represent a crucial transitional juncture in the history of Latin Catholic mission, at the time directly managed under the aegis of Iberian monarchies. In an age of Catholic Reformation and the dogmatic priorities nourished by the Council of Trent, in general missionaries from the Latin West did not promote awareness of the potential for legitimate coexistence between different rites and theological expressions within the Catholic Church. In the Indian context, this meant that Latin missionaries focused on eradicating the 'errors' of the Chaldean Church in the early modern Malabar Christianity of the Thomas Christians. They did this with a thrust for dogmatic, linguistic, liturgical, hierarchical and sacramental purge and uniformity, operating primarily in the face of the jurisdictional upper hand held in India by the East Syrian representative leaders of local Christians. A long-standing definition given by the Latin West to the question of classical 'Nestorianism' played a major role in this missionary endeavour. This study and the translation of the original document outline the underlying dynamics of these conflicts against a wider backdrop of the history of dogma and of the linguistic and cultural sensibilities of different Churches, without losing sight of the political motives that worked behind the scenes. (English) |
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