This book presents the various Churches and ecclesial communities in the Middle East, focusing on the Assyrian Church of the East, the Oriental Orthodox and the Oriental Catholic Churches, the spiritual heritage of the Coptic, Syriac and Armenian traditions. The Christians in the Middle East can be called a Church of martyrs.

Listening to witnesses of faith in the first centuries, as well as to the martyrs of our time, this book reveals the cruel reality of the ‘forgotten genocides’ at th...

Augustine has put an important mark on later Christian thinking. Moreover, he composed a lot of writings: more than eight hundred sermons, some three hundred letters, and a hundred works in which he unfolds his theological vision.

This book presents some basic thoughts on the spirituality of this great church father. In different ways the author clarifies in which sense the spirituality of Augustine can be a breath of fresh air for our times. The conversion experience that Augustine went thro...

Dit boek werpt een blik op de diverse Kerken in het Midden-Oosten, met aandacht voor de Assyrische Kerk van het Oosten, de Oriëntaals-orthodoxe Kerken en de Oosterse-katholieke Kerken, het spirituele erfgoed van de Koptische, de Syrische en de Armeense traditie. De christenen in het Midden-Oosten kunnen een Kerk van martelaren worden genoemd. Onder meer de ‘vergeten’ genocides in het begin van de twintigste eeuw worden in herinnering gebracht.

In welke zin zijn de christenen in het Midde...