Table of Contents

Part 1: The Nestorian Planting 1. The Background 2. Christianity in Iran to the End of the Sassanian Dynasty 3. The Persian Church at the Coming of Islam 4. The Coming of Islam: The Shadow of the Ghetto 5. The Missionary Expansion of the Church 6. The Decline of the Nestorian Church and the First Contacts with Rome Part 2: The Roman Catholic Era 7. The Roman Catholic Missionary Effort Part 3: The Protestant Endeavours and the Foundings of Indigenous Churches 8. The Forerunners 9. The Coming of the Americans, 1834-70 10. Christians and Jews in Persia: The Church’s Ministry among the Jews, 1844-1960 11. The Archbishop of Canterbury’s Mission to the Assyrian Church, 1886-1915 12. The Presbyterian Mission to Persia 13. The CMS in Persia – Part 1: 1869-1919. 14 The CMS in Persia – Part 2: 1919-61. Appendix The Bible in Persian. Bibliography. Map. Index.

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