Counter Reformation and Dominican Order


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DİNİ ARAŞTIRMALAR, vol.20, no.52, pp.111-130, 2017 (Peer-Reviewed Journal) identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 20 Issue: 52
  • Publication Date: 2017
  • Doi Number: 10.15745/da.356884
  • Journal Name: DİNİ ARAŞTIRMALAR
  • Journal Indexes: TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
  • Page Numbers: pp.111-130
  • Uşak University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

Christianity is one of the greatest religions among today’s religious traditions. However, it is known that Christians do not form a unified community. Because of religious debates, Christians diveded into several sub-groups in the process of time. In the wake of the 11th-century East-Orthodox and WestCatholic division, the West Church chose the name Catholic, which means universal, and thereby it regarded itself as the main church. The Catholic Church has assessed all currents that do not embrace their own teaching as heretical and has taken some precautions against them. In the 16 th century, Catholic Christianity was faced with a reform process that was considered to have begun with Luther. While many criticisms of Luther's direction to the Catholic Church have been acknowledged before by some clerics, the debates that Luther began have resulted in a division that can not be taken for granted in Christianity. In this process, Catholic clerics responded to Luther's criticism, sometimes with advocacy, sometimes with counterclaims, and this process was expressed in the Catholic Reform or Counter-Reform concepts. In the discussions that lived during this period, the Dominican Order was also in the forefront in efforts to protect and defend the official dogmas of Catholic Christianity. This paper deals with the major developments and the contributions of Dominican Order to the Catholic Church in this adversity period.
Katolik Hıristiyanlık 16. yüzyılda Luther ile başladığı kabul edilen birreform süreci ile karşı karşıya kalmıştır. Luther’in Katolik Kilise’sine yönelttiğieleştirilerin çoğunun daha önce de bazı din adamlarınca dile getirildiğikabul edilmekle beraber, Luther’in başlattığı tartışmalar, Hıristiyanlık içerisindeönü alınamayan bir bölünme ile sonuçlanmıştır. Bu süreçte Katolik dinadamları, Luther’in eleştirileri karşısında bazen savunmaya geçmiş bazen karşısuçlamalarla cevap vermiş ve bu süreç Katolik Reformu veya Karşı Reformkavramları ile ifade edilmiştir. Bu dönemde yaşanan tartışmalarda, KatolikHıristiyanlığın resmi dogmalarını koruma ve savunma yönündeki çabalardaDominiken Tarikatı da ön saflarda yerini almıştır. Bu çalışmada, Luther’inbaşlattığı reform hareketine karşı Katolik Kilisesi’nin başlattığı Karşı Reformhareketi döneminde yaşanan gelişmeler ve Dominiken Tarikatı’nın bu süreçtezor durumda kalan Katolik Kilisesi’ne yaptığı katkılara yer verilecektir