МАНИХЕЙСКАЯ ХРИСТОЛОГИЯ
MANIXEJSKAYa XRISTOLOGIYa
Аннотация
Известно, что вопрос о сочетании божественного и человеческого начал в Иисусе гностики решали самым радикальным образом: вместо двуединого Христа они представляют "двух Христов", или "Христа и Иисуса", божество и человека-вероучителя.
Abstract
In the Manichaean doctrine, developed on the basis of an early Gnostic-Christian doctrine, there are two figures named "Jesus". 1) A deity, the so-called Jesus the Radiant (or Splendour). 2) The historical or terrestrial Jesus, which is an element of the line of "Apostles", i.e. founders and restorers of the true world religion. He may belong to the short line of Apostles, together with other religious leaders, such as Buddha, Zarathushtra and Mani himself, or to the longer another one, including the Biblical or historical persons traditionally known as authors of apocalyptic books. Such a dichotomy is a development of the well-known principle of Gnostic teachings, dividing Jesus Christ of the New Testament into a heavenly Christ and an earthly Jesus. There are some Docetic passages in the Manichaean sources, affirming that the material body and, consequently, the passion and crucifixion of the earthly Jesus were but a fiction. Through such Docetic sentences that occur also in early sources, they do not conform to some principle of the Manichaean teaching. We can conclude that the Manichaean Docetism is secondary by its nature, perhaps a later development of Mani himself, trying to conform his teaching to the principles of different Christian schools. This may also mean merely that the heavenly emanation, which makes the "Apostle" out of an earthly man (it is another principle of the Manichaean teaching), was already departed from Jesus to the moment of crucifixion, that is the crucified man was not an "Apostle".
Как цитировать
Смагина Е. Б. МАНИХЕЙСКАЯ ХРИСТОЛОГИЯ // Восток (Oriens). 2010. № 2. С. 27–33.
How to cite
Eugenia Smagina MANIXEJSKAYa XRISTOLOGIYa // Vostok (Oriens). 2010. No. 2. Pp. 27–33.