Volume IX

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Perspectives.............................................7

COPTIC ORTHODOXY
The See of St. Mark and its Contribution to the
Universal Church.........................................9

INTERVIEWS
My Interview with His Grace Bishop Gregorios............15

My Interview with His Reverence Fr. Matta al-Maskin.....25
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COPTIC SAINTHOOD
Saint Macarius the Great................................39
Bishop Anba Gregorios

LITURGICAL STUDY
The Eucharist in the Historical Experience of the Copts.53
Otto F.A. Meinardus

MANUSCRIPT STUDY
On Prayer...............................................75
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CHURCH AND STATE
Politics by Idolatory or by Reason: The Case of
Constantine.............................................83
Mourad Wahba

MYSTICAL PHILOSOPHY
Spinoza and Blake: Two Expressions of Mystical Insight.89
J. Douglas Rabb

THE DIVINE PIGRIMAGE
The Meaning and End of the Revelatory Quest for God.....99
Fayek M. Ishak
ICONOGRAPHY
Pharaonisms in Neo-Coptic Iconography..................111
Otto Meinardus

NUBIAN LITERATURE
The Nicene Canons in Christian Nubian Literature.......119
Boulos Ayad Ayad

OBITUARY
The Late Professor Ragaei W. el-Mallakh: A True
Coptic Scholar.........................................125
Boulos A. Ayad

REVIEW ARTICLES
Matthew the Poor, The Communion of Love................129
Fayek M. Ishak

Daniel J. Sahas, Icon and Logos: Sources in Eighth-
Century Iconoclasm.....................................134
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BOOK REVIEWS
The Syrian Fathers on Prayer and the Spiritual Life,
intro. & trans. Sebastian Brock........................139
F.M.I.

S.J. Alexis Mallon, Grammaire Copte....................142
B.A.A.

Fouad Guirguis, The Difficult Years of Survival........144

Soliman Nessim, al-Aqbat wal Ta'lim fi Misr 
al-Hadithah ("The Copts and Education in Modern
Egypt") in Arabic......................................146

BIBLIOGRAPHY
The Works of Bishop Gregorios..........................149

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS..................................159