This dissertation focuses on the ecclesiastical formation of the Anti-Chalcedonian Alexandrian See and its following, primarily during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. For hundreds of years, this Christian Orthodox communion had a distinctive "geography" which, in a sense, has been "carved up" in the modern period. Today, its territories are incorporated within the boundaries of a number of national states, while the sweeping abstraction of "world regions" has bisected the territorial reaches of communion, assigning one parcel to the "Middle East" and the other to "Africa." This fragmentation is reflected in the scholarship, where the "parts" of this geography have been scattered across multiple, and sometimes mutually isolated fields of inquiry. In the coming chapters, we set out in search of an Alexandrian Orthodox Oecumeme which modern discourses, constructs and analytical frames have concealed. We will shed light on various dimensions of a formation which was constituted by myriad relationships and characterized by nebulous frontiers. We will contemplate an arrangement in which "Egyptian" Copts, "Ethiopian" Orthodox and others were linked in shared communion, while situating this within the wider context of an ancien regime order. We will also explore the metaphorical hinterlands of communion, where manifold relationships existed linking Christians and Muslims, monks and bedouin and others, sometimes in most intimate ways. Over the course of these chapters, we will follow processes, discourses and conceptual changes of the nineteenth century that invaded the "hinterlands," severing and reordering relationships while gradually erecting an edifice of boundaried constructs (territorial, institutional, communal.) The exploration of these novelties, together with a host of starkly drawn binaries (among them "religious"/"secular" and "spiritual"/"temporal") will provide insights into the emergence of modern nation-states, national minorities and national churches. But the apparition of these restricting and fragmenting objects coincided with an apparently paradoxical development; the so-called "globalization" of the patriarchal see of Alexandria. This set of circumstances is inexplicable without a rigorous inquiry into the profound transformations that have characterized the modern period. The coming chapters constitute, collectively, a building block to this larger purpose.

Thesis (D.W.S.)--Institute for Worship Studies, 2005. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 475-486).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 2006. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (D. Min.)--Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University, 1979. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 122-126).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Harding University Graduate School of Religion, 2000. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 165-169).

Thesis (S.T.L.)--Catholic University of America, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 190-213).

Thesis (D.W.S.)--Institute for Worship Studies, 2002. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 185-191).

“The Eucharist i n a time o f change : an investigation into the Eucharist as practiced at ‘The Church of the Ascension ’ between 1975 and 2002 . ” by Andrew David Kruger The thesis set out to discover how the Eucharist developed at ‘The Church of the Ascension ’ between 1975 and 2002. This microcosm offers a partcularly interesting case study. This period was a t ime of great change – the Anglican Eucharistic liturgy underwent significant revision, South Africa moved from Apartheid to Democracy and the three rectors brought charismatic, evangelical and Anglo-Catholic worldviews to bear on the Church of the Ascension, during their respective terms of office. In order to document the development of the Eucharist , three primary sources were collected and analysed, First , data from the Service Register was captured and processed. Second, a synopsis of the Parish Council Minutes was created. Third, interviews with the three rectors – the first being charismat ic, the second evangelical and the third Anglo-Catholic – were conducted along with four lay parishioners . The three primary sources were analysed and several developments were observed. These developments included the following: chi ldren were admi t ted to Communion after Baptism, where before they were required to be Confirmed; the ordination of women became accepted and women presided at the Eucharist , where before they had not ; the lai ty became more involved in the leading the services; The at t i tude toward administering the sacrament became more liberal , as even those of other Faiths were welcomed. Surprisingly none of the laity interviewed showed any awareness that the Eucharist developed. The laity showed little ability to link the Eucharist to the context they inhabited. It is imperat ive for the Anglican Church of Southern Africa to help the laity appropriate the deep truths of the Eucharist . / Thesis (M.A.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2011.

Thesis (J.C.L.)--Catholic University of America, 1990. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 60-62).

Thesis (D. Min.)--Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, 2007. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 128-134).