Kristen di Nusantara

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Eastern Christian Presence in the Ancient History of Indonesia

During the 7th century and during the greater parts of the Sriwijaya-Majapahit periods (9th-14th centuries), eastern Christians of the Antiochian Syrian tradition arrived, followed later by the Non-Chalcedonians (Armenians). Christianity was in Indonesia before Islam came to the Archipelago. However, the Christians disappeared from the Indonesian landscape and its historical record. It appears that the first Christian missionaries from Antioch did not ordain local Indonesian men to succeed them. After the last clergymen died, the local residents knew almost nothing of Orthodoxy, since the region was politically and geographically isolated. In the 11th century, an envoy of the Pope of Rome to Beijing, stopped over at the Pagarruyung Kingdom , West Sumatra and discovered some remnants of Christianity being practiced by local residents despite some three hundred years of isolation. From that early period until today, not one written record of Christianity survives, yet oral tradition preserved the names of three local bishops: Mar Yaballah, Mar Abdisho and Mar Denha. Most Indonesians do not know of these tenuous but deep Christian roots, and it should be stressed that it was Eastern Christianity that arrived to the island first.

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Ternyata kehadiran Kekristenan di Nusantara sudah sangat lama.

bruce wrote:

Ternyata kehadiran Kekristenan di Nusantara sudah sangat lama.

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Tapi, kemudian mati suri, nggih? Dari quoting Glomod itu, diketahui ada juga menyebut Pagaruyung (sumatera Barat), sementara dewasa ini, Sumatera Barat merupakan daerah yang penduduknya dominan Islam. Satu kemungkinan, Islam yang kemudian datang 'menyentuh' ke Pagaruyung, yang tokoh-tokoh kisahnya banyak yang sama atau disama-samakan, maka kekristenan yang tadinya mati suri perlahan hidup kembali, tetapi mengalami pembelokan ke ajaran Islam, akhirnya disana terjadi dominasi Islam seperti sekarang ini.
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Damai, damai, damai.

Kemungkinan karena Kristen Orthodox kemudian mengalami masa masa sulit, setelah terkena skisma pada tahun 1000an dan kekalahan Romawi Timur oleh Ottoman. Maka Kekristenan yang mulai tumbuh di Nusantara kembali tergilas.

Ini kemungkinan, oom, berdasarkan analisa saya pribadi, he he he.

Anda memang jenius, Glomod. Analisis Anda sangat relevan dengan perjalanan sejarah Gereja. Apresiasi untuk Glomod.
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