科普特教是埃及最具规模的基督教教会,其创造的科普特宗教文化对基督教文化来说意义非凡。科普特教徒为了宣传和维护基督教建立了世界上最早的亚历山大教理学校,使基督教的教义逐渐规范化、专业化;面对分裂基督教的势力,他们又率先开展了最早的普世教会合一运动,维护了基督教的统一;在遭受罗马统治者残酷的压迫时,科普特教徒创立了修道院制度,使基督教更加规范化、合理化。对埃及科普特宗教文化的研究有助于重新认识科普特教和科普特教教义,对科普特宗教文化的地位以及科普特宗教文化遗产的挖掘与传承也十分重要,并且对科普特人更好地融入埃及社会提供了宗教方面的支撑,有利于埃及民族国家的构建。
Coptic Church is the largest Christian church in Egypt,and the Coptic religious culture created by it is of great significance to Christian culture. In order to propagate and preserve Christianity,Copts established the world’s earliest Alexander School of Doctrine,which gradually standardized and professionalized Christianity’s doctrine. Because of the separatist forces,they took the lead in the first universal Oecumenical Movement and safeguarded Christianity’s unity. Under the cruel oppression of Roman rulers,the Copts formed the monastery system,which made Christianity more standardized and rationalized. The study of Egyptian Coptic religious culture is helpful to re-recognize Coptic religion and Coptic doctrine;the status of Coptic religious culture and the excavation and inheritance of Coptic religious and cultural heritage are also very important;it also provides religious support for the better integration of Copts into Egyptian society,and it would be helpful for the construction of Egypt’s national state.