Nestorian missionary enterprise
Subtitle: the story of a church on fire / John Stewart ; with foreword by Samuel M. Zwemer.
Edition: 1st Gorgias Press ed.
Series: Christianity in the Islamic world -- 4
Publisher: Gorgias Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Piscataway, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 351
ISBN-13: 9781593335632
Subjects: Nestorians; Nestorian Church -- History; Missions -- Asia -- History; Nestorian Church -- Missions
Notes: Originally published: Edinburgh : T & T Clark, 1928.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [340]-343) and index.
Table of contents: title: The church in Persia : its missionary center; title: Contributing factors in Nestorian missionary activity : persecution, monastic Bible training schools; title: Nestorianism in Arabia; title: Expansion in central and eastern Asia; title: Syrian Christians of South West India; title: Nestorian missionary activity in further Asia; title: Nestorian Sino-Syriac monument at Hsi-An-Fu and the spread of Christianity in  China and Japan; title: Semiryechensk cemetary inscriptions; title: Factors in Nestorian decadence : persecution, deception, compromise; title: Additional factors in Nestorian decadence : extermination by Mongols and Tamerlane, absorption by Roman Catholicism; title: By-products of Nestorianism; title: Present conditions : conclusion.