Alpi, Federico (2022) Early Protestant Missionary Activity, Heresy and Church in Ottoman Armenia (1782–1909). In: Missions and Preaching: Connected and Decompartmentalised Perspectives from the Middle East and North Africa (19th-21st Century). Leiden Studies in Islam and Society (15). Brill Academic Publishers, pp. 294-322. ISBN 978-90-04-44962-6
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I propose to trace the history of the development of the myth that "all Armenian Evangelical churches have their historical and ideological roots in the medieval Paulician and Tondrakian movements", from the beginning of Protestant missionary activity in the Ottoman empire to the formulation made by Arpee in 1909. More precisely, I will focus on the first half of the nineteenth century, in order to see if and how Protestant missionaries, the Armenian Apostolic Church, and Armenian Protestant themselves made use (or not) of such a “myth” in their early activity, for preaching, condemning, or justifying Protestantism, and how these actors reacted (or not) to the existence of alleged “Tondrakians” in Armenia. In order to do this, I will first provide a short summary of specific Protestant missions and preaching activities among Armenians in the early nineteenth century, with contextual information about the Armenian Apostolic Church and the Ottoman empire. I will then proceed to present one of the major factors at the origin of the “myth”, namely the existence of alleged “Tondrakians” in Ottoman and Russian Armenia, in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Finally, I will examine how the alleged Tondrakians, the Protestant missionaries and the Armenian Apostolic Church interacted in the middle of the nineteenth century, arguing that the “myth” was largely a by-product of the historical processes that occurred in those years, and was only later picked up by some researchers—and particularly by Protestant Armenian scholars such as Arpee. Only later would it become relevant also to preaching, becoming the sort of “myth” that Ōhanǰanyan described. I will then conclude with some final remarks.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Subjects: | A Church/mission history G Christian traditions/Denominations > Evangelical |
| Divisions: | Former Soviet Union > Armenia |
| Depositing User: | Katharina Penner |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Feb 2024 08:01 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Feb 2024 08:01 |
| URI: | https://ceeamsprints.osims.org/id/eprint/2902 |
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