Leslie Brown's The Indian Christians of St. Thomas: An Account of the Ancient Syrian Church of Malabar, published by Cambridge University Press in 1956, is a scholarly account of the Saint Thomas Christian community of Kerala, India, tracing its traditions of apostolic origin and its historical relationship with the Syriac Christian world. Its strength is that it is a peer-reviewed university press study that remains a frequently cited English-language reference on the community. Its limit is that later scholarship, drawing on additional archival and archaeological evidence, has continued to develop the picture of the community's early history since 1956, so a claim resting on the earliest layers of that history should be checked against more recent research as well.
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AuthorLeslie Brown
PublisherCambridge University Press
Publication Year1956
Source Typebook
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Source-type book; read by its own shape, a university press monograph (Cambridge University Press) by a named scholar. NotesAccount of the ancient Saint Thomas Christian (Syrian) church of Malabar, India.
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Source The Indian Christians of St. Thomas: An Account of the Ancient Syrian Church of MalabarLeslie Brown
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Source The Indian Christians of St. Thomas: An Account of the Ancient Syrian Church of MalabarLeslie Brown
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Source The Indian Christians of St. Thomas: An Account of the Ancient Syrian Church of MalabarLeslie Brown
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This source backs 29 claims across the atlas. As facts: 20 well-attested. As cited relationships: 6 holds. Plus 3 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Denominations, 13 claims: 11 well-attested, 1 holds, 1 general references.
- Sources, 10 claims: 7 well-attested, 3 holds.
- Doctrines, 4 claims: 2 holds, 2 general references.
- Articles, 2 claims: 2 well-attested.
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