Coptic Christians are in the news again, as targets of violence in Egypt. I'll just use today's post as a convenient format for leaving interested readers three links to sources for reading up on the history of the Copts. First, a basic encyclopedic discussion: http://www.copticchurch.net/topics/patrology/schoolofalex/I-Intro/chapter1.html Second, an admiring account of Coptic Christianity as the vessel that has preserved the Christian faith "in its earliest and purest form." http://www.coptic.net/articles/CoptsThroughTheAges.txt Finally, a discussion (by an evangelical-Protestant source) of a key distinction between Coptic Christianity and western Protestant Christianity. https://www.gotquestions.org/Coptic-Christianity.html That key distinction is: Miaphysitism. "Belief in mixed nature." Whereas the Chalcedon Creed of AD 451 declared that Christ was and is one person with two natures, both fully human and fully divine, the Copts, who di...