In the present work De Syrorum Orientalium Erroribus Auctore P Francisco Ros S I A Latin Syriac Treatise from Early Modern Malabar 1586 Antony Mecherry S J brings to the fore a recently identified sixteenth century treatise on Nestorianism written by Francisco Ros S J 1559 1624 a Catalonian from the Jesuit province of Aragon who successfully promoted the mission praxis of accommodatio primarilyamong the Saint Thomas Christians of early modern Malabar in South India This newly discovered first treatise composed by Ros a Latin missionary represents the initial phase of his mission as a polemicist in the making who read the Syriac sources of the Church of the East found in Malabar through a Catholic theological lens In addition to exploring the underlying conflicts emerged out of an unprecedented encounter of apparently unlike theological and liturgical identities in the same mission field of early modern India this book provides the readers with a historiographical critique against the backdrop of which the author presents his analysis of the Rosian treatise

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