ABSTRACT
When visiting Old Cairo with Jan Quaegebeur in the summer of 1989, I bought an unpretentious albeit copiously illustrated brochure written to introduce the Coptic Church to a wider public: L’Eglise copte orthodoxe depuis le grand Saint ‘Marc l’Apôtre’ jusqu’au Chrysostome, le grand Pape ‘Shenouda III’ par le père Marcos Aziz Khalil, Eglise de la Vierge Marie, Montréal, 56 p., s.1., s.d. Despite some minor flaws, the text proves very instructive as it provides a fair and uncomplicated idea of the way Egyptian Christianity views its own history and understands its own theological and ecclesiastical particularities.
