User talk:Sempta

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"Antiochian Syriac Christianity"

Sempta, can I ask what source you have for the abovenamed term? Whilst I can understand your confusion in that there are Antiochian Greek Christians; that term only exists to differentiate them from other Greek Christians, e.g. Egyptian or otherwise, whereas there is only kind of Syriac Christianity as it all descends from the Church of Antioch. The term and category you have created is simply named Syriac Christianity in academia, hence why I reverted your edits and redirected the category to Syriac Christianity. Mugsalot (talk) 18:20, 13 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I don't understand which is the confusion you talk about above in the first line. The claim that "there is only kind of Syriac Christianity as it all descends from the Church of Antioch" is false. The Church of the East, for example, is of Syriac tradition and its origins and development have nothing to do with Antioch. The same can be applied to the multiple Syriac Mesopotamian churches, or even to the Persian Church and all the East Syriac tradition. There is a serious deficit in Western academia when treating this issues and there is also no enough written on this matter. It is derogatory, naive and totally avoidable to transfer such vices here. Antiochian Christians have evolved in different groups (mainly self-labelled Syriac and Greek ones) and it is sophist to reason a term is false because Western academia has not get it yet in a certain proportion. --Sempta (talk) 18:46, 13 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Sempta, in other words, you have no source that supports the term you have added. It is simple. The term "Antiochian Syriac Christianity" does not exist in English-language sources as far as you or I can prove and that is the single most important criteria for inclusion on Wikipedia. Therefore, if it does not exist in academia, then it has no place on Wikipedia. Mugsalot (talk) 19:47, 13 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Go to page 3 and read the paragraph that starts with The term "Syriac"... here: ANTIOCH AND SYRIAC CHRISTIANITY - A CHALCEDONIAN PERSPECTIVE ON A SPIRITUAL HERITAGE.--Sempta (talk) 19:56, 13 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Sempta, that source does not use the term "Antiochian Syriac Christians" or "Antiochian Syriac Christianity". There is no point in making an argument that the term should exist or not, it simply does not currently exist. Mugsalot (talk) 20:04, 13 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I think you didn't get the point of that particular paragraph nor its direct implications, among them the usage of this term. Antiochian tradition isn't a patrimony exclusive of the Rums. Being a literalist doesn't make much sense, if I may say. --Sempta (talk) 20:13, 13 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

No. You don't understand that if something is not supported by sources, and you have provided none that outright use the term you have invented, then it does not belong on Wikipedia as it simply does not exist in academia. Mugsalot (talk) 20:16, 13 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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