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Examining God from the point of view of the Unitarians with an emphasis on the opinions of Michael Serutos

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Year: 2013 University Degree: Master's degree Category: Philosophy - Ethics
Tags/Keywords: Attributes - essence - god - Mikhail Sertos - providence - the church - Unitarian - verbs
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    Dissertation for M.A.

    Inclination: Religions and Mysticism

    dissertation abstract (including summary, objectives, implementation methods and results obtained):

    The present article examines God from the point of view of the Unitarians, especially the opinions of Michael Serutos, who opposed the Church's beliefs. The people of this group were rejected by the church, and the church condemned them as heretics and destroyed the works of these people, and only a few of them are left now. The basis of this research is the works left by these people and the writings of their opponents.

    Therefore, a lot of effort has been made to find their works, and most of the material has been found from the words of the people who quoted them, as well as the Internet. While introducing the life and beliefs of the Unitarians, the author examines and analyzes them.

    The result of this research is that the common aspects of the opinions of these people show with logical and rational reasons that Christianity, after the ascension of Christ, deviated from its original path and took the path of intellectual polytheism. The monotheists were those who stood against falsehood and sacrificed their lives to revive the main goal of Christ, which was monotheism. By examining the nature, attributes, and actions of God from the point of view of the Unitarians, this research clearly clarifies that one God rules the world, contrary to the views of the church.

    Key word: God, essence, attributes, actions, providence, Michael Serutos, Unitarians

    Abstract:  

    This article examines God from the point of view of the Unitarians, especially the opinions of Michael Serutos, who rose against the beliefs of the Church. The people of this group were rejected by the church, and the church condemned them as heretics and destroyed the works of these people, and only a few of them are left now. The basis of this research is the works left by these people and the writings of their opponents.

    Therefore, a lot of effort has been made to find their works, and most of the material has been found from the words of the people who quoted them, as well as the Internet. While introducing the life and beliefs of the Unitarians, the author examines and analyzes them.

    The result of this research is that the common features of the opinions of these people show with logical and rational reasons that Christianity deviated from its original path after the ascension of Christ and took the path of intellectual polytheism. The monotheists were those who stood against falsehood and sacrificed their lives to revive the main goal of Christ, which was monotheism. By examining the nature, attributes, and actions of God from the point of view of the Unitarians, this research clearly clarifies that one God rules the world, contrary to the views of the church.

    Key word: God, nature, attributes, actions, providence, Mikhail Serutos, Unitarians.

     

    Introduction

    This research entitled "Review of God from the point of view of the Unitarians with emphasis on the opinion of Mikhail Serutos" The history of Christianity has been raised and suppressed. Among Christian believers, there are religions that believe in one God and the followers of those religions try to live according to the instructions of the Bible. Christian monotheists believe that those who taught the Bible had wrong interpretations of it and promoted those wrong interpretations, which caused polytheism against God. The most important belief and distinction of monotheists from other Christian schools and religions is that they emphasize the use of human reason and thought in religion. Accordingly, they do not accept the Trinity, accept God in only one person (and not in three persons) and deny the divinity of Jesus. . Michael Serutos, born in the 16th century, is one of the leaders of Christian monotheism. In addition to him, there were those who had monotheistic thoughts in the early centuries.People like Iraneus 130-200 AD, Tertullian 160-220 AD, Origen 185-254 AD, Arius 250-336 AD, Francis David 1510-1579 AD, Sosinus 1539-1604 AD, Schleiermacher 1834-1768 AD, Karl Barth 1886-1968 A.D.

    The purpose of investigating these people is a relatively brief introduction of their biographies and opinions about God in Persian language, which are critics of the doctrine of the Trinity. These people, especially Serutos, followed a path that later created an independent current in Christianity, and their opinions and views can create a convergence between Christian monotheism and Islamic monotheism. In addition to the scientific motivation that was effective in choosing this topic, the following reasons can justify the author's choice better and more. With their plan, he forced the church to respond as the final religious authority.

    2- The ideas of these people were recognized as heresy and rejected by the church. Heresy is deviation from the popular religion and therefore it is defined according to the popular religions of that time, i.e. Christianity. Of course, heresy at that time was a moral issue and meant a difficult error. Errors and mistakes have different levels and they do not consider every error as heresy. Since the church, as an authority whose mission on earth is to save a person, would declare an opinion to be a mistake and announce it to a person who is wrong and ask him to avoid this mistake, if the church was faced with the stubborn insistence of the person, it would declare the mistake to be a heresy. (Grady, 1377, 719)

    Despite this, they were condemned and the church tried hard to hide their thoughts and works, but these thoughts had supporters for centuries after their death, some of which still exist. Based on this, the writer tried to choose the mentioned topic to reveal the facts that can be declared as different forms of monotheism in Christianity.

    3- The church punished the heretic because after showing the error to the person, they did not seek forgiveness from their error and did not repent. Based on this, heresy has been a failure for the church, that is, a failure to save a person whose mission was on earth. In this way, there has been a kind of duality towards the heretic, his responsibility (unlike the infidel) has been directly on the shoulders of the church, which should punish him if he does not reform. Therefore, they were severely punished by the church. For example, Serutos was in prison for a while and shortly after he was burned in the fire along with his books. Their purpose of burning these works was to prevent this kind of thinking and view from penetrating the Christian society. 5- Despite all the strictures of the church, these people got followers who have lived for centuries. This is a sign of the claim that although people are cursed and excommunicated throughout history and are rejected by the society, thoughts and ideas are not a category that is rejected and destroyed by burning works or calling it heresy. Rather, they may appear again after years have passed. It is part of Christian theology. Theology means knowledge of God, which shows the definition, description and recognition of God in a religion. In Christian theology, the discussion is not limited to the existence of God, but other topics are also studied and researched.   In Christian theology, when discussing the doctrine of God, not only His nature and attributes are discussed, but all of His divine affairs, including the knowledge of God, God's names, God's providence, God's power, God's planning, His wisdom, and other matters related to God.

    When theology is presented as the subject of theology, it discusses the attributes and nature of God and just as some of the attributes are proved for God. does, it also negates some other attributes from him. Theology means knowledge of God and includes the definition, description and recognition of God in a religion.

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    Abstract 1

    Introduction. 2

    Chapter One: Generalities

    1-1 statement of the problem. 10

    1-2 research background. 10

    1-3 questions and hypotheses 11

    1-4 objectives. 11

    1-5 beneficiaries. 12

    1-6 aspects of innovation and newness of research. 12

    1-7 research methods. 12

    1-8 information gathering methods. 12

    1-9 History of monotheistic theology in Christianity. 12

    Result. 24

    Chapter Two: Biographies of Unitarian Leaders

    2-1 Irenaeus (130-200 AD) 26

    2-2 Tertullian (160-220 AD) 29

    2-3 Origen (185-254 AD) 32

    2-4 Arius (250-336 AD) 35

    2-5 Michael Sertos (1553-1511 AD) 37

    2-6 Francis David (1579-1510 AD) 45

    2-7 Faustus Sosinus (1604-1539 AD) 48

    2-8 Friedrich Schleiermacher (1834-1768 AD) 48

    2-9 Karl Barth (1886-1968 AD) 52

    Chapter 3: God's essence

    Definition of essence 59

    3-1 Being a soul. 59

    3-2 God is upright in essence. 76

    3-3 God is unlimited. 80

    3-4 God is eternal and eternal. 83

    The result of the essence chapter. 85

    Chapter Four: God's Attributes

    Definition of God's Attributes 89

    4-1 Absolute Presence. 90

    4-2 absolute power. 92

    4-3 Immutability. 95

    The result of the chapter on God's attributes. 99

    Chapter Five: God's Actions

    5-1 God's Providence 101

    5-2 Creation. 104

    The result of verbs chapter. 110

    List of sources. 111

     

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