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Canan Seyfeli, Prof. Dr.
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Byzantine Paulicians: Beliefs and Practices
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ULUM Dini Tetkikler Dergisi
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Dinler Tarihi
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Hıristiyanlık
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2020
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c.3 , sy. 1
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ss. 45-68
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Paulicians, Byzantine, Orthodox Church, History of Religions, Christianity, Faith
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The subject of the article is the Byzantine Paulicians, their beliefs and practices. The Paulicians are a semi-secret movement with different Christian teachings that had influenced the Byzantine territory between the seventh and the twelfth centuries. They remained in secrecy due to their heretic acceptance by the Orthodox. However, even though they were a problem for the Byzantine and Orthodox Church when they were strong, the reasons for disappearance from Anatolia were the Byzantine and Orthodox Churches. It is estimated that their first leader, Constantinos, was didaskalos in 655. Then, the movement, which was divided into two, lost its power in Anatolia in the first half of the IX century. Constantinos and later leaders identified themselves as Christians. The Paulician doctrine accepts some texts from the New Testament. However, the Paulicians interpret the Scriptures, Jesus Christ and rituals such as baptism and eucharist (holy communion) differently from Christians. Although they are often associated with dualist doctrines, neither their form of the organization nor their commends and prohibitions are similar to theirs. The association with Christianity is based on more explicit data. However, they have different ideas about central issues such as the Trinity and the position of Jesus as God. The Paulicians adopted a significant number of New Testament texts, especially the Gospels and the Epistles of Paul. Thus, they revealed a new interpretation of Christianity. Thinking differently, especially believing different from the basic admissions of Christianity, led to the emergence of negative data about them. Due to their different interpretations, the Paulicians were declared heretic throughout history, especially by the official Byzantine Church. This situation led to prosecutions, executions, migrations, and degeneration of Paulicians, which caused their constant concealment and thus to the increase of unreal information about them.
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