Excerpt from The Orthodox Church of the East in the Eighteenth Century: Being the Correspondence Between the Eastern Patriarchs and the Nonjuring Bishops, With an Introduction on Various Projects of Reunion Between the Eastern Church and the Anglican Communion The once popular theory of the Asiatic origin of the British Church has been found to rest on too precarious a foundation to warrant the belief that an Oriental parentage had continued to exer cise a conscious influence on the religious feelings and sympathies of its children after its amalga mation into the Latin Communion; but it might well be that the eminent services which an Asiatic Metropolitan in the throne of Canterbury had con ferred upon the Early English Church, in con solidating its foundations, 'edifying it in the unitylearning -that these services, faithfully recorded by Bede, were considered, not only to have laid the Church under a lasting debt of obligation to Theodore of Tarsus, but also to have established a bond of fellowship with the Eastern Church, which the unhappy controversies of later times could not altogether sever. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.