To Await Doomsday: Expectations of Doomsday in the Christianity and Reflections in the Russian Orthodox Church

Batuk, Cengiz

To Await Doomsday: Expectations of Doomsday in the Christianity and Reflections in the Russian Orthodox Church

HITIT UNIVERSITESI ILAHIYAT FAKULTESI DERGISI-JOURNAL OF DIVINITY FACULTY OF HITIT UNIVERSITY, cilt.7, sa.14, ss.5-35, 2008 (ESCI)

Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
Cilt numarası: 7 Sayı: 14
Basım Tarihi: 2008
Dergi Adı: HITIT UNIVERSITESI ILAHIYAT FAKULTESI DERGISI-JOURNAL OF DIVINITY FACULTY OF HITIT UNIVERSITY
Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)
Sayfa Sayıları: ss.5-35
Ondokuz Mayıs Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır

Özet

The Purpose of this article is to examine expectations of doomsday in the history of Christianity. Since expectations of doomsday in Christianity appears in form of millenarianist and messianic sects, analyzes have been done some of this sects in first chapter of the study. In second chapter, investigations have been done about apocalyptic movements in history of Russian Orthodox Church. Some of these movements are Pyotr Kuznetsov's doomsday cult, sects of castrati and neocastrati, Sergei Torop's Church of the Last Testament and sect of Khristovshchina/ Flagellant.