FastPace
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I once read a book authored by an Eastern Orthodox Christian. Judging by the author's name I assumed the person was Russian Orthodox. But that's just an assumption and I can't remember the name of the book or the author. It was not a thick history book on Christianity but it was a light 300 or so pages. But it was fascinating to me reading it as the perspective and chosen focuses were so foreign to me coming from a Latin Catholic (aka Roman Catholic), American, and Western cultural rearing and perspective.
It was a world of Christianity outside of "Rome" and Western Protestants and secular atheist Western scholars and critics. All of them only had glasses on that saw the story and history of Christianity confined to a white and Western narrative, mainly between the world of Rome to Northern Europe and then much later into the USA.
It was with this Eastern Orthodox author first walked by imagination into the Eastern world of Nesotorian Christians, the Mongols asking the Pope and Western monarchs for an alliance against the Muslims, and the Christian monk from China the great Khan sent to Rome. And according to that author many of the Mongols top ranks were married to Nesotorian Christian women, and that most the scholars among the Mongols were Nesotorian Christians. I remember him stating they viewed the Nesotorian Christian priests as often frightened but very learned, and viewed their (Mongol) contacts with Catholic priests as often very fearless clergymen.
So, this topic deals with politics, religion, and military.
I will post a few separate posts in the thread. Can't make one huge long post. Of course, a topic like this could probably fill 5 volumes of books which each volume over 1,000 pages.
It was a world of Christianity outside of "Rome" and Western Protestants and secular atheist Western scholars and critics. All of them only had glasses on that saw the story and history of Christianity confined to a white and Western narrative, mainly between the world of Rome to Northern Europe and then much later into the USA.
It was with this Eastern Orthodox author first walked by imagination into the Eastern world of Nesotorian Christians, the Mongols asking the Pope and Western monarchs for an alliance against the Muslims, and the Christian monk from China the great Khan sent to Rome. And according to that author many of the Mongols top ranks were married to Nesotorian Christian women, and that most the scholars among the Mongols were Nesotorian Christians. I remember him stating they viewed the Nesotorian Christian priests as often frightened but very learned, and viewed their (Mongol) contacts with Catholic priests as often very fearless clergymen.
So, this topic deals with politics, religion, and military.
I will post a few separate posts in the thread. Can't make one huge long post. Of course, a topic like this could probably fill 5 volumes of books which each volume over 1,000 pages.