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THE LITURGY OF THE MAR THOMA SYRIAN CHURCH OF MALABAR IN TH E LIGHT OF ITS HISTORY
This thesis is an evaluation of the Divine Liturgy of the Mar Thoma Syrian Church, from a historical perspective. The Mar Thoma Syrian Church of Malabar, as it is officially known, is an Oriental Reformed Church with its head quarters at Tiruvalla in Kerala State, the south west coast of India. The...
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University of Durham
1994
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| Online Access: | http://10.26.1.76/ks/005143.pdf |
| Summary: | This thesis is an evaluation of the Divine Liturgy of the Mar Thoma Syrian
Church, from a historical perspective. The Mar Thoma Syrian Church of Malabar,
as it is officially known, is an Oriental Reformed Church with its head quarters at
Tiruvalla in Kerala State, the south west coast of India. The Christians of Kerala are
known as Syrians, owing to their descent from the immigrants of Persia and through
the use of the Syrian liturgy as well. The first chapter gives the common history of the Syrian Christian
community of Kerala. Owing to the change of the Western political powers that
ruled India from time to time, this community has been fragmented into different
Christian denominations. It ipso-facto adopted different liturgies viz. the Chaldean
(East Syrian), Roman (Latin), Antiochian (West Syrian), Anglican etc.
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Antiochian liturgy comes in the scope of this study. The second chapter describes
the different stages of the Antioch&an connection and the distinctive features of its
liturgy. Tradition and renewal are not contrary but complimentary. Tradition enables
to become part of the past and renewal helps to be relevant. Negation of either
results in imbalance. The touch-stone of the two is to be the Scripture. The third
chapter describes the impact of the Scripture in the Syrian Reformation of the 19th
century and the fourth chapter, the consequent developments in the Syrian Church.
The fifth chapter gives the different stages of the liturgical revisions in the Mar
Thoma Church. The sixth chapter shows that the said Reformation was an earnest endeavour
of correction rather than abolition. It resulted in the revision of the Antjochian
liturgy at certain points. Like the other Eastern and Oriental Churches the doctrines
of the Mar Thoma Church are also embedded in its liturgy. The liturgy proves its
accordance with the Scriptures and Canons. |
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| Item Description: | Submitted for the degree of M.A„ in the faculty of Arts, University of Durham |