Fast tracking the coptic Bibles - I would be delighted. Yes it would be useful
The book is in English. It is a summary by the Coptic Pope on a dialogue on Christology which created peace and removed anathemata between the Chalcedonian Orthodox and the non Chalcedonian Eastern churches, so it is certainly within the paramaetres I would think are appropriate. Peter Chris Little wrote: > I'm certainly not the arbiter of orthodoxy, but have a couple points to > mention. First, CrossWire definitely isn't an Evangelical organization > in the sense that we have a statement of faith that aligns with some > subset of churches that have been categorized as Evangelical. We're > evangelical in the sense that we're working to spread the Gospel. But > we're fairly explicitly not aligned with any specific church or creed. > > That said, we do have to draw the line of orthodoxy somewhere this side > of Jesus Christ Superstar. The Book of Mormon & Joseph Smith's > translation fall on the other side, so we have them tagged as unorthodox > in the repository. I'm guessing you would like to avoid having that > happen in this case. > > I don't know where monophysitism falls with respect to our loosely > defined metric of orthodoxy, but my vote would be to add this text to > the repository. It helps to build bridges, which is a good thing. And if > it's in Coptic, anyone likely to voice an objection couldn't possibly > read it to know to object anyway. And it gets bonus points for being in > a cool language. > > I think I have some Coptic Bibles sitting somewhere, too. I could > fast-track them if you think that would help your efforts. > > --Chris > > > peter wrote: >> As a favour to someone I am creating out of a book by Pope Shenouda, the >> Coptic Patriach, a sword module. It is a well written and thoroughly >> biblically argued treatise on the Nature of Christ. The emphasis is >> obviously "Monophysite". >> >> I have made no attempts to contact anyone so far re rights for >> Crosswire distributing it, but I would like to get an idea whether this >> would be wasted effort as would never go into the repository - i.e. due >> to not evangelical etc. (I find most Coptic literature I read so far >> actually thoroughly evangelical, but that is by the by.) >> >> I really do not want to obtain a permission (or even ask for it) and >> then realise it will not be distributed as this obviously would be more >> than offensive to those who might grant a permission. >> >> My real aim is to create some interest and trust and maybe get help to >> get BD translated into Arabic. >> >> Peter >> >> _______________________________________________ >> sword-devel mailing list: [email protected] >> http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel >> Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page > > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list: [email protected] > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: [email protected] http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
