Synod of Beth Lapat

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The Council of Bet Lapat ( Synod of Beth Lapat ) was a council of the Church of the East that was held in Bet Lapat (now Gundishapur , Iran ) in 484 under the direction of Catholicos Barsauma of Nisibis .

meaning

The council is considered to be the hour of birth of the Persian Church ( Syrian ܥܕܬܐ ܕܡܕܢܚܐ ʿĒ (d) tāʾ d-Maḏn (ə) ḥāʾ ), which split off from the Church of the East in 604 because it rejected reforms suggested by Babai . At the council the Church accepted the doctrine of Nestorianism . Other decisions concerned celibacy . The rejection of celibacy became a hallmark of monastic life in the Persian Church, which made it different from the Church of the East. The acceptance of the teachings of Nestorius , which had been rejected at the Council of Ephesus (431), finally separated the church from the Byzantine church. The decisions were aimed at reconciling the Zoroastrian Persian king, who was constantly at war with the Byzantines. Former pro-Byzantine Catholicos Babaeus (Mar Babwahi) had been executed and the Persians had given the Nestorians asylum since 462. The Zoroastrians held family life sacred and abhorred the monastic movement of Christians. However, the resolutions did not bring any improvement in state policy towards the church. Many Christians also left their church and joined Myaphysitic churches.

See also

literature

  • Horst Robert Balz:  Orthodox . In: Theologische Realenzyklopädie (TRE). Volume 25, de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1995, ISBN 3-11-014712-2 , p. 433.
  • William Ainger Wigram: An Introduction to the History of the Assyrian Church, or The Church of the Sassanid Persian Empire, 100-640 AD Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, London 1910, p.
  • Georg Günter Blum: The story of the encounter between Christian-Oriental mysticism and the mysticism of Islam (= Orientalia Biblica et Christiana. Vol. 17). Otto Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 978-3-447-05898-8 , p. 16.
  • Christian Lange: Mia energeia. Studies on the unification policy of the emperor Heraclius and the patriarch Sergius of Constantinople (= studies and texts on antiquity and Christianity . Vol. 66). Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-16-150967-4 , p. 493.
  • Andreas Luther : The Syrian Chronicle of Josua Stylites (= studies on ancient literature and history. Vol. 49). Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1997, ISBN 978-3-110-80074-6 , p. 932.
  • Ehsan Yarshater: The Cambridge History of Iran. Vol. 3, Part 2: Seleucid Parthian. Cambridge University Press, 1983, ISBN 978-0-521-24693-4 , p. 932.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ William Ainger Wigram: An Introduction to the History of the Assyrian Church, or The Church of the Sassanid Persian Empire, 100-640 AD Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, London 1910, p?.