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The Coptic Church in Egypt
Sternbergová, Petra ; Vopatrný, Gorazd Josef (advisor) ; Kropáček, Luboš (referee)
In her thesis, the author deals with selected issues related to the Coptic Church in Egypt. The research is based on the theoretical background consisting of works written by coptologists as well as historical works focusing on Byzantium, and dogmatic theology, too. At the beginning, the treatise explains who is considered to be Copt, and the thesis is not lacking in characteristics of the Coptic language either. The description of the origins of Christianity in Egypt and the period from the 4th to 7th centuries, rendered in detail, when, among other things, the Egyptian Christians split up with Orthodoxy and the Egyptian National Church called the Coptic Church was established, is followed by a brief history of the Coptic Church from the 7th to 20th centuries. Information on the origins of monasticism in Egypt and individual outstanding personalities of the desert is concentrated in the descriptions of selected monastic locations such as Nitria, Kellia, Scetis, the Eastern Deserts and the area of Thebaid. The outline of the Coptic revival in the 20th century offers an insight into the life of the Coptic Church, and the very end of the thesis briefly deals with the interaction of the Chalcedonian and non-Chalcedonian churches.
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