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— THE LIVING STONES OF THE HOLY LAND TRUST _________________________________________________ Registered Charity No. 1081204 'An ecumenical trust seeking to promote contacts between Christian Communities in Britain and those in the Holy Land and neighbouring countries.’ You are permitted to redistribute or reproduce all or part of the contents of the Yearbook in any form as long as it is for personal or academic purposes and non-commercial use only and that you acknowledge and cite appropriately the source of the material. You are not permitted to distribute or commercially exploit the content without the written permission of the copyright owner, nor are you permitted to transmit or store the content on any other website or other form of electronic retrieval system. The Living Stones of the Holy Land Trust makes every effort to ensure the accuracy of the contents in its publications. However, the opinions and views expressed in its publications are those of the contributors and are not necessarily those of The Living Stones of the Holy Land Trust. The Living Stones of the Holy Land Trust Yearbook and its content are copyright of © The Living Stones of the Holy Land Trust. All rights reserved. [email protected] 1 Living Stones of the Holy Land Trust Yearbook 2019 2 Contributors Living StoneS Yearbook 2012 i Living Stones Yearbook 2012 ii Contributors Living StoneS Yearbook 2012 Living StoneS of the hoLY Land truSt Registered charity no. 1081204 iii Living Stones Yearbook 2012 © Living Stones of the Holy Land Trust 2012 all rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or utilised in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Living Stones Yearbook 2012 First published 2012 by Living Stones of the Holy Land Trust (regd. Charity no. 1081204) www.livingstonesonline.org.uk ISbN 978 0 9552088 1 2 Managing Editor Leonard Harrow Editors Mary Grey Duncan Macpherson anthony o’Mahony Colin South Produced by Melisende Uk Ltd Printed and bound in england by 4edge Ltd iv Contributors CoNTeNTS Living StoneS of the hoLy Land truSt PatronS vii CommuniCationS viii foreword ix ContributorS xi the Current Situation of ChriStianity in the MiddLe eaSt, eSPeCiaLLy Syria, after the Synod of the middLe eaSt’S finaL deCLaration (SePtember 2012) and the PaPaL viSit to Lebanon—Antoine Audo 1 the Synod for the middLe eaSt: firSt reSuLtS and Future PoSSibiLitieS —Frans Bouwen 18 engaging ‘the martyred ChurCh’ The Chaldean Catholic Church, assyrian Church of the east and the Holy See in ecumenical Dialogue 1994-2012 and the Influence of the Second Vatican Council—Kristian Girling 38 angLiCaniSm and iSLam: the eCCLeSiaL-turn in interfaith reLationS—Richard J. Sudworth 65 PaLeStinian ChriStian theoLogy aS a new and ContemPorary exPreSSion of eaStern ChriStian Thought—Leonard Marsh 106 aCCePting the faCt of death, we are freed to Live more fuLLy A reflection on freedom and liberty in Israel and Palestine —Colin South 120 v Living Stones Yearbook 2012 the ConCePt of Dhimma in earLy iSLam —C. E. Bosworth 143 the infLuenCe of Latin-meLkite reLationS in the Land of tranSjordan From the rebirth of the Latin Patriarchate to the Foundation of the archdiocese of Petra and Philadelphia (1866-1932)—Paolo Maggiolini 165 vi Contributors Living StoneS of the hoLY Land truSt ‘an ecumenical trust seeking to promote contacts between Christian communities in britain and those in the Holy Land and neighbouring countries.’ Our SPIRITUAL PATRONS include In the Middle East: archbishop elias Chacour, Melkite archbishop of Galilee bishop Suheil Dawani, anglican bishop in Jerusalem Hb Patriarch Gregorius III, Melkite Patriarch of antioch bishop Giantos-boulos Marcuzzo, Latin Patriarchal Vicar for Israel Patriarch emeritus Michel Sabbah, formerly Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Hb Patriarch Fouad Twal, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem archbishop Theodosios of Sebastia, Greek orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem (Nizar Hanna) Elsewhere: archbishop Yegishe Gizirian, armenian Church rt revd and rt Hon The Lord Hope of Thornes, formerly archbishop of York Cardinal Cormac Murphy o’Connor, formerly archbishop of Westminster archbishop Vincent Nichols, archbishop of Westminster Canon Paul oestreicher, anglican and Society of Friends revd kathleen richardson, baroness richardson of Calow, former President of Methodist Conference and Moderator of the Free Church Federal Council bishop Desmond Tutu, former archbishop of Cape Town The Most reverend kallistos, Metropolitan of Diokleia (Timothy Ware) vii Living Stones Yearbook 2012 CommuniCationS www.livingstonesonline.org.uk Communications with the Chair or Editor can be made through: [email protected] or [email protected] All enquiries regarding subscriptions to the Honorary Treasurer: [email protected] viii Contributors ForeWorD The new format and type of publication now presented in the Living Stones Yearbook aims to provide a platform for informed debate and scholarship concerning the life and times, historical and current, of the Christian community in and around the Middle east from a theological perspective. alongside this development of the Yearbook has been a Newsletter for members of Living Stones which is available periodically and concentrates on current information and news concerning the Trust. Together these publications replace the old Living Stones of the Holy Land Trust Magazine. archived copies of the Magazine and the Newsletter are available on the website (www.livingstonesonline.org.uk). The Yearbook will present an interesting and relevant series of papers concerning the Holy Land. It is appreciated that articles derive from authors in a range of disciplines and demonstrate a variety in approach. The spelling of some specialised terms, local place-names and proper names in particular may vary considerably according to the contributor and discipline. These variations, however, should cause no problems to readers. Submissions for inclusion in the Yearbook are welcome and papers for consideration should be sent to [email protected]. uk. Notes for submission of papers and house style are available upon request from the editor. ix Living Stones Yearbook 2012 x Contributors CoNTrIbUTorS Antoine Audo, SJ, Chaldean bishop of aleppo, Syria. born in aleppo in 1946 he entered the Jesuits in 1969 and was ordained to the priesthood in 1979. He commenced his academic formation with a licence de letters arabes from the University of Damascus, 1972, followed by a doctoral thesis at Paris III, Sorbonne, 1979. He completed his philosophical and theological formation with biblical studies at the Pontifical biblical Institute (rome) and was for a time professor in biblical exegesis at Université Saint-Joseph and Université Saint- esprit (kaslik, Lebanon). He is a member of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue; Pontifical Council for Migration; and a major figure in the recent Synod for the Middlee ast held at the Vatican in october 2010. Publications include: ‘eastern Christian Identity: a Catholic Perspective’, in The Catholic Church in the Contemporary Middle East, eds a. o’Mahony and J. Flannery, Melisende, London, 2010, pp. 19-38; ‘Isaac of Nineveh, John of Dalyatha and eastern Spirituality’, One in Christ: A Catholic Ecumenical Review, Vol. 44, 20.2, (2010), pp. 29-48. other notable publications include: Zakî al-Arsouzî un arabe face à la modernité Université Saint-Joseph, Faculté des letters et des sciences humaines, Collection Hommes et Sociétés du Proche-orient, Dar el- Machreq, beyrouth, 1988; ‘approches théologiques du récit de Joseph dans Gn 37-50 et Coran sourate 12’, Proche Orient Chrétien (Jersualem), Vol. 37, 1987, pp. 268-281; ‘Storia e prospettive dei cristiani in Iraq’, La Civiltà Cattolica, rome, 2008, (issue 3787) no. II, pp. 85-93; ‘Les chrétiens d’Iraq: Histoire et perspectives’, in Études (Paris), Vol. 40, no. 8, 2008, pp. 209-318; ‘Isaac de Ninive, Jean de Dalyatha et la spiritualité xi Living Stones Yearbook 2012 orientale’, in Mélanges en mémoire de Mgr. Néophytos Edelby (1920-1995), eds P. P. Nagi edelby and Pierre Masri, Collection: Textes et Études sur l’orient chrétien, Vol. 4, Université St Joseph, CeDraC, beirut, 2005, pp. 43-62; ‘The Synod of bishops: The Catholic Church in the Middle east’, One in Christ: A Catholic Ecumenical Review, Vol. 44, 20.2, (2010), pp. 196-200; ‘between Christians and Muslims a Pathway of Communion’ in The Restless Middle East. Between political Revolts and confessional Tensions, Oasis 13 (2011), http://www.oasiscenter.eu/ node/7149. Clifford Edmund Bosworth was Professor of arabic Studies at Manchester University and is now a Visiting Professor at the Institute of arabic and Islamic Studies, exeter University. He is a Fellow of the british academy and an Honorary Member of the Hungarian academy of Sciences. He was british editor of the second edition of the Encyclopaedia of Islam and edited two volumes of the UNeSCo History of Civilizations of Central asia. The topics of his books range from the mediaeval Islamic underworld and studies on arab and Persian history to the travels in the Levant and North africa. Frans Bouwen, M.afr, was born in belgium in 1938 and is a member of the Society of Missionaries of africa (White Fathers). ordained in 1963, he completed his studies in eastern theology, ecumenical relations and Islam in rome and athens, before moving to Jerusalem in 1969, where he has since been living at St anne’s Church in the old City. For many years he has been the editor of the review Proche-Orient Chrétien, specialising in the history, theology, liturgy and present-day life of the Churches of the Middle east, with a particular emphasis on ecumenism and Christian-Muslim relations. He is a consultant to the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, a member of the International Joint Commission for Theological Dialogue between the roman Catholic Church and the eastern orthodox Church, and of the International Commission for Theological Dialogue between the Catholic Church and the oriental orthodox Churches.