The Maronites in History

402 Pages·2005·26.506 MB·English

by  Matti Moosa

THE
MARONITES
IN HISTORY

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GORGIAS PRESS
2005
First Gorgias Press Edition, 2005.
The special contents of this edition are copyright €> 2005 by
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Press LLC, New Jersey. This edition is a facsimile reprint of the
original edition published by Syracuse University Press, New York,
1986.
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To the memory of my beloved Father
ISHAQ MOOSA
(d. 1960)
A token of filial love
MATTI MOOSA is Professor of History at Gannon University, author of
The Origins of Modern Arabic Fiction, and editor of The Wives of the
Prophets.
Contents
Preface 1
Introduction 5
1 Origin of the Term Maronite 11
2 The Identity of the Ascetic Marun 16
3 The Monastery of Marun 23
4 Earliest Sources on the Monastery of Marun 32
5 Maronite Claims and Sixth-Century Epistolary
Documents 39
6 The Council of Constantinople of A.D. 536
and the Letter of the Monks of Syria Secunda
to Pope Hormisda 54
7 The Maronites and Saint Simon the Stylite 64
8 Peter the Fuller and the Trisagion Dispute 69
9 Signatories to the Letter of the Monks
to Pope Hormisda and Related Documents
from the Council 74
10 The Maronites and the Letters of the Monks
from Syria Secunda 81
11 Were the Monks of the Monastery
of Marun Chalcedonians? 87
12 Heraclius and the Monothelitic Formula of Faith 95
13 The Malkites, the Maronites, and the Sixth Council 103
14 Establishment of the Maronites as a Separate Church 110
15 Who is John Marun? 118
16 John Marun: Was He a Patriarch of Antioch? 130
17 John Marun's Writings 148
18 Was John Marun a Canonized Saint? 167
19 The Relation of the Maronites to the Mardaites
and the Jarajima 174
20 The Maronites and Monothelitism 195
21 The Relation of the Maronites
to the Church of Rome 217
22 The Mission of Fra Gryphon
and Other Franciscans to the Maronites 233
23 The Mission of Giovanni Battista Eliano
to the Maronites 245
24 The Mission of Jerome Dandini to the Maronites 256
25 The Latinization of the Maronite Church 267
26 The Maronites in Modern Times 279
Notes 305
Bibliography 363
Index 381