Apocalyptic Ecclesiology in Response to Early Islam
Apocalyptic Ecclesiology in Response to Early Islam
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末世教会学对早期伊斯兰教的回应
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10.1163/9789004383869_007
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2018
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Cornelia Horn
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Cornelia Horn
In response to the emergence of Islam as a political, social, and religious force, ancient Christian authors writing in Arabic composed new discourses with apocalypticcontentorrewroteexistingapocalypsesinthecourseof translating themfromotherChristianOrientallanguagesintoArabic. 1Someof theseapocalypses are independent narratives. 2 Well-known among these is the Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius. 3 Other examples are shorter apocalypses which were incorporated into non-apocalyptic narratives. In Christian Arabic literature, one example of such an incorporation is found in the ArabicApocryphal Gospel of John (hereafter AAGJ). 4 This article studies aspects of the apocalypse in the AAGJ that are relevant for ecclesiological questions, broadly conceived.1 The research and writing of this article occurred in part while I held a Heisenberg Fellowship (GZ HO 5221/1–1) and in part during my tenure as the Heisenberg Professor of Languages and Cultures of the Christian Orient at the Martin-Luther-University, Halle-Wittenberg (GZ HO 5221/2–1). I wish to express my gratitude to the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) for their financial support.