{"product_id":"the-chaldean-church-a-servant-of-god-9798199765749","title":"The Chaldean Church: A Complete History from the Apostle Thomas to the Modern Diaspora","description":"THE LARGEST EASTERN CATHOLIC CHURCH IN AMERICA - AND THE\u003cbr\u003eANCIENT FAITH MOST AMERICAN CATHOLICS HAVE NEVER HEARD OF. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the suburbs of Detroit, in the cathedral of Baghdad, in the\u003cbr\u003ehalf-restored churches of the Nineveh Plain, and in the silent\u003cbr\u003eruins of medieval monasteries scattered from Anatolia to China, \u003cbr\u003eone of the oldest Christian communities in the world is still\u003cbr\u003ecelebrating the same Eucharistic prayer it has prayed since the\u003cbr\u003efourth century. This is the Chaldean Catholic Church - the\u003cbr\u003elargest Eastern Catholic Church in the United States, with\u003cbr\u003eroughly 224,000 American faithful, and the institutional\u003cbr\u003einheritor of an apostolic tradition that traces itself back\u003cbr\u003eto the Apostle Thomas and his disciples Addai and Mari. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor sixteen centuries this Church has lived through events\u003cbr\u003ethat would have destroyed almost any other Christian community: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e- The Great Persecution of Shapur II (4th century), which\u003cbr\u003ekilled tens of thousands of Persian Christians\u003cbr\u003e- The missionary expansion that reached China in 635 AD and\u003cbr\u003eleft an inscribed Christian stele standing in Xi'an\u003cbr\u003e- A Mongol golden age where Christian princesses ruled\u003cbr\u003ealongside Genghis Khan's descendants\u003cbr\u003e- The catastrophic destruction by Timur (Tamerlane) that\u003cbr\u003ereduced a continent-spanning Church to a mountain remnant\u003cbr\u003e- Four centuries of survival in the Hakkari mountains\u003cbr\u003e- The first union with Rome in 1552 under Yohannan Sulaqa\u003cbr\u003e- The genocide of 1915 (the Sayfo), the Simele Massacre\u003cbr\u003eof 1933, and the ISIS occupation of the Nineveh Plain\u003cbr\u003ein 2014\u003cbr\u003e- Pope Francis's historic 2021 visit to Iraq \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book - the first comprehensive single-volume English-\u003cbr\u003elanguage history of the Chaldean Catholic Church written for\u003cbr\u003egeneral readers - tells that entire story. It traces the path\u003cbr\u003efrom the first apostolic missions in Mesopotamia, through the\u003cbr\u003econtroversies surrounding Nestorius and the formation of the\u003cbr\u003eChurch of the East, through the medieval golden age of\u003cbr\u003eexpansion across Asia, through the long centuries of decline\u003cbr\u003eand mountain refuge, through the complicated three-century\u003cbr\u003epath to union with Rome, through the modern genocides and\u003cbr\u003epersecutions, to the contemporary Chaldean Catholic Church\u003cbr\u003ein Detroit, San Diego, Sydney, Stockholm, and Baghdad. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt addresses what most readers don't know: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e- Why the Anaphora of Addai and Mari is one of the oldest\u003cbr\u003eEucharistic prayers in continuous Christian use\u003cbr\u003e- How the Nestorian controversy of the fifth century was\u003cbr\u003ebased largely on misunderstanding, and how the 1994 Common\u003cbr\u003eChristological Declaration between Pope John Paul II and\u003cbr\u003ethe Assyrian Patriarch finally clarified it\u003cbr\u003e- Why Christian missionaries from Mesopotamia reached\u003cbr\u003eBeijing in 635 AD, eight hundred years before Marco Polo\u003cbr\u003e- How the Chaldean community in metropolitan Detroit became\u003cbr\u003eone of the most institutionally successful immigrant\u003cbr\u003ereligious communities in modern American history\u003cbr\u003e- What survives of the ancient Christian heartland in Iraq\u003cbr\u003eafter the ISIS catastrophe - and what the future holds\u003cbr\u003efor a Church that has now become primarily a diaspora\u003cbr\u003eChurch \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWritten for Catholics who want to understand the universal\u003cbr\u003eChurch beyond its Western expressions, for Chaldean faithful\u003cbr\u003ewho want to know their own story, for anyone moved by the\u003cbr\u003eplight of Middle Eastern Christians, and for students of\u003cbr\u003eChristian history who want to learn about a tradition that\u003cbr\u003ehas been overlooked by mainstream Western scholarship. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is the book that the Chaldean Catholic community has\u003cbr\u003ebeen waiting for - and the book that every Catholic with\u003cbr\u003ean interest in the global Church should read.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e A. Servant Of God\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798199765749\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/02\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 164\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.41d","brand":"A. Servant Of God","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49148573253887,"sku":"9798199765749","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-chaldean-church-a-servant-of-god-9798199765749","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}