CILICIAN BISHOPS AND FOURTH-CENTURYCHURCH POLITICS*

Turhan KAÇAR

Makale detayları

CILICIAN BISHOPS AND FOURTH-CENTURYCHURCH POLITICS*

Yazarlar:

Turhan KAÇAR

Yayıncı:

Mersin University

Dergi:

OLBA 2003 Issue 8, pp.103-128

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

10/2003

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000532181

Sıklık:

Yıllık

eISSN:

2687-6558

pISSN:

1301-7667

Özet:

 

The fourth century is the most vital turning point of ancient Christianity,
  because many changes took place at that period regarding the future fate
  of the Church. First of all, the century begins with the ‘Great Persecution’ of the Diocletianus, which intermittently continued for about a decade.
  Secondly, the end of this persecution brought not only the conversion of
  Constantinus but also the councils of bishops to heal the wounds of the
  persecution. In spite of the fact that there were very sharp differences in
  the western churches, the conversion of a Roman emperor naturally resulted
  in the integration of the church and state in the East, and this was mostly
  achieved at the church councils. Thirdly, it was also a period, in which
  the most serious theological dispute, the Arian controversy, broke out and
  consequently led to a traffic of church councils to establish a generally
  accepted doctrinal definition in the middle years of the century. The Arian
  controversy was a major problem that the emperors had to deal with.
  However, there were also localized ecclesiastical problems, emerged from
  ascetic, theological and political concerns, such as local interpretations of
  the Arianism, the Meletians in Egypt, the Anatolian asceticism of Eusebius
  of Sebaste, and the Monophysite teachings of the Syrian theologian
  Apollinarius, which was condemned at the second ecumenical council of
  Constantinopolis in 381. In fact, the first two ecumenical councils of
  the early church took place in the fourth century and their decisions and
  definitions of the Creed are still used by present day Christians to declare
  their own faith.

Makale detayları

CILICIAN BISHOPS AND FOURTH-CENTURYCHURCH POLITICS*

Yazarlar: Turhan KAÇAR

Yayıncı: Mersin University

Dergi: OLBA 2003 Issue 8, pp.103-128

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 10/2003

Belge Dili: İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.): 2000532181

Sıklık: Yıllık

eISSN: 2687-6558

pISSN: 1301-7667

Sayı

Yazarlar:

Turhan KAÇAR

Yayıncı:

Mersin University

Dergi:

OLBA 2003 Issue 8, pp.103-128

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

10/2003

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2000532181

Sıklık:

Yıllık

eISSN:

2687-6558

pISSN:

1301-7667