The Ethiopian Church History by Endale Abebe PDF

By Endale Abebe

Ethiopia is without doubt one of the famous international locations within the Bible. because the time of Queen of Sheba who visited King Solomon in Jerusalem (Mt. 12: 42), the rustic practised monotheism and authorised the previous testomony. It used to be on the time of her son, Emperor Minilik I (1000 BC) that the Ark of the Covenant used to be dropped at the rustic. when you consider that then, Ethiopians used to shuttle to Jerusalem to worship the only precise God with Israelites. as a result, a few Ethiopians have been in a position to be found in the Holy urban at the day of Pentecost. one of many Ethiopians, who travelled to Jerusalem in advert 34, quite a few months after the ascension of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, used to be the eunuch, treasurer, of Queen Candace of Ethiopia. On his go back trip from Jerusalem the place he worshipped the only actual God he turned a Christian baptised by means of Philip the Apostle (Acts eight: 26-39). Then, he again domestic to Ethiopia and started evangelising his fellow voters, the folks of Ethiopia.

This booklet illustrates how the Roman Catholic missionaries devastated the traditional Christian societies in Ethiopia (the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church). This exam exhibits why the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahido Church used to be left uncovered to repeated Islamic assaults and the offensive challenge of Chalcedonian missionaries opposed to the aforementioned Church. The later prompted civil struggle and Christological controversies that introduced the interior disintegration of Christian Ethiopia, which lasted for greater than centuries.

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