Orta Doğu’daki Çağdaş Hıristiyan Topluluklarına Bir Bakış

Year 2023, Volume: 9 Issue: 2, 470 - 502, 18.06.2023

Translator: Celal Öney

https://doi.org/10.21551/jhf.1309673

Abstract

Bu çalışmada Ortadoğu’daki Hristiyanların kimler olduğu üzerinde durulmaktadır. Ortadoğu’daki kadim Ortodoks ve Katolik mezheplerin nasıl ortaya çıktığı ve kilise yapılanmasının nasıl şekillendiği konusuna açıklık getirilmektedir. Çalışmada bölgede Protestanlığın nasıl ortaya çıktığı ve diğer Hristiyan gruplar ile ne tür bir ilişki kurduğu açıklanmaktadır. Ortadoğu’daki Hristiyan nüfusun günümüzdeki istatistiğine de değinen çalışmada bölgeden Hristiyan nüfusun göç etme nedenleri üzerinde de durmaktadır. Çalışma aynı zamanda Ortadoğu Hristiyanları hakkında şimdiye kadar yapılmış literatürdeki önemli çalışmaların konu, yazar ve isimlerini de inceleyerek adeta yetkin bir kaynakça bilgisi de vermektedir. Çalışmada Ortadoğu Hristiyan çalışmalarının başlı başına bir araştırma alanı olmaya başladığı ve özellikle Kıptiler hakkındaki literatürün büyük gelişme gösterdiği vurgulanmaktadır.

Keywords

Ortadoğu, Hristiyan, Süryani, Ermeni, Marunî, Kıpti

Christian Communities in the Contemporary Middle East: An Introduction

Abstract

This study focuses on who the Christians in the Middle East are. It clarifies how the ancient Orthodox and Catholic sects in the Middle East emerged and how the church structure was shaped. The study explains how Protestantism emerged in the region and what kind of relationship it established with other Christian groups. The study also touches upon the current statistics of the Christian population in the Middle East and emphasizes the reasons for the migration of the Christian population from the region. The study also provides a competent bibliography by examining the subjects, authors, and titles of important studies in the literature on Middle Eastern Christians. It is also emphasized that Middle Eastern Christian studies have become a field of research in its own right and that the literature on Copts in particular has made great progress.

Keywords

Middle East, Christian, Assyrian, Armenian, Maronite, Coptic

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