نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی

نویسندگان

1 دانشجوی دکتری گروه ادیان و عرفان، دانشکدۀ حقوق، الهیات، و علوم سیاسی، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، واحد علوم و تحقیقات، تهران، ایران.

2 استاد و عضو هیئت‌علمی مؤسسۀ حکمت و فلسفۀ ایران، تهران، ایران

3 استاد گروه ادیان و عرفان، دانشکدۀ حقوق، الهیات، و علوم سیاسی، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، واحد علوم و تحقیقات، تهران، ایران.

چکیده

جایگاه زن و نقش آن در عرصۀ اجتماعی و تأثیرگذاری عواملی مانند فرهنگ و دین بر آن همواره مدنظر محققان حوزۀ زنان بوده است. در این تحقیق، جایگاه زن و زنانگی در انجیل توماس را بررسی کردیم؛ انجیلی که نوشته‌ای غیررسمی و یکی از متون یافت‌شده در کتابخانۀ نجع حمادی است و با وجود حجم کم آن از بدو کشف‌شدن همواره مورد توجه پژوهشگران حوزۀ صدر مسیحیت بوده است. در ضمن این پژوهش، مروری بر نگاه ادیان، به‌ویژه مسیحیت رسمی و پدران کلیسا به زن داشتیم و گفته‌های انجیل توماس در این زمینه را به روش توصیفی-تحلیلی بررسی کردیم. نتیجۀ این تحقیق نشان می‌دهد این متن غیررسمی برخلاف متون رسمی مسیحیت، جایگاه بالاتری را برای زنان رقم زده است و نقش مؤثرتری برای ایشان مدنظر دارد. براساس این پژوهش از منظر انجیل توماس برای رسیدن به رستگاری و ملکوت باید از زنانگی و مردانگی گذشت و به وحدت و تجرد رسید؛ زیرا دیدگاه معرفتی و الهیاتی این متن مقدس ایجاب می‌کند به روحانیت و معنویت فرد توجه داشته باشد، نه جنسیت او.

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عنوان مقاله [English]

woman and femininity in the Gospel of Thomas

نویسندگان [English]

  • Mehran Rahbari 1
  • • Shahram Pazouk 2
  • Abolfazl Mahmoudi 3

1 PhD student, Islamic Azad University Science and Research Branch, Tehran, Iran.

2 Professor in Religion and Mysticism, Iranian Institute of Pilosophy, Tehran, Iran

3 Professor, Department of Religion and Mysticism, Faculty of Law, Theology and Political Sciences, Islamic Azad University Science and Research Branch, Tehran, Iran.

چکیده [English]

Women's position and their role in the society has been influenced by various factors such as culture and religion. This research tries to study the role of women in the point of views of religions especially Christianity and church fathers and also analyze the view of the Gospel of Thomas on this matter. The Gospel of Thomas is a noncanonical text that were discovered seventy years ago in the Naj Hammadi, in Upper Egypt. In spite of its small volume, The Gospel of Thomas has always been the focus of scholar in the field of early Christianity. In this research, we have aimed to study the position of woman and femininity in the Gospel of Thomas. The result shows that Jesus in the form of sayings, proverbs and phrases of the Gospel of Thomas, unlike the other canonical texts of Christianity, considers a more important position for women and assigns a more valuable role to them. Because of its theological and mysticism perspective, the Gospel of Thomas focuses on the spirituality of person and not his or her gender. for this reason, attaining the kingdom, enlightenment and salvation requires passing away from masculinity and femininity and then trying to achieve celibacy and unity.

کلیدواژه‌ها [English]

  • Women
  • Femininity
  • Gospel of Thomas
  • Early Christianity
  • Naj Hammadi
 
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