Yazılı Kaynaklara Göre Karadeniz Bölgesi’nde Erken Hristiyanlık

Year 2008, Issue: 7, 197 - 216, 01.06.2008

Turhan Kaçar

Abstract

Bu çalışmanın temel konusu erken Hristiyanlığın Karadeniz bölgesine gelişine ilişkin yazılı kaynaklarda yer alan kayıtları incelemektir. Çalışmamızın kronolojik sınırları, miladi I. yüzyılın sonlarından başlamakta ve IV. yüzyılın sonuna kadar gelmektedir. Bunun temel nedeni, kaynakların ilk defa birinci yüzyıldan itbaren bu konuya ilişkin veri sunmaya başlamasıdır. IV. yüzyılın sonunun terminus quem olarak seçilmesinin nedeni ise, devlet eliyle Hristiyanlaştırmanın bu dönemde hız kazanmasıdır. Kullanılan kaynaklar arasında en önemli olanı kuşkusuz Kaisareia piskoposu Eusebius’un yazdığı Kilise Tarihi’dir

Early Christianity in the Black Sea: An Examination of the Literary Evidence

Abstract

Christianity became an important phenomenon in its earliest phase for the history of Anatolia. In fact, it is important to point out that the name Christianoi =the followers of Christ first emerged at Antioch, Antiochea, in the first generation of Christians. The Acts of Apostles offers the details of the journeys of St. Paul, who vastly travelled in the southern regions of modern Turkey Wallace – Williams 1998 . Paul’s travels and the later thrust of Christianity show that the regions of Anatolia which had close connections with Syria naturally became the hot-bed of this new religion MacMullen 1984 . However, in what way can we exploit the literary evidence for the impact of Christianity in the regions which were at the edges of the original missionary areas of St. Paul? It is an important question what emphasis may be placed on the literary evidence to exploit the channels of communication in the early expansion of Christianity in the geographically distant regions of its seed-bed.

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