The Political Philosophy Of The Orthodox Church

Author : Pavlos M. Kyprianou
Publisher : Holy Trinity Publications
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781942699538

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Christian Orthodox Political Philosophy by Pavlos M. Kyprianou Pdf

The Church is commonly viewed as an earthly institution, and is much less frequently recognized as a spiritual and heavenly reality called by God “ to make disciples of all nations” (Matt 28:19). This structured and integrated work offers a vision of a Christian Orthodox political thought in which the Church is neither sidelined as having no relevance to this present life, nor dominated by temporal questions or popular movements at the expense of its eternal salvific mission.The author grounds the mission of the Church in the present world both on an understanding of God as Trinity and in her mission to baptize diverse cultures. To do this effectively the Church must recognize and adapt to local and contemporary political and social trends and patterns. It must exemplify the Gospel as a way of communal and social life, not allowing itself to be reduced to an impersonal ideology manifested within the sphere of imagination, opinions, or a private individualistic existence.Drawing upon this philosophy, the author proposes a way for believers to understand questions of both domestic politics and international relations with a view to bringing the world into the Kingdom of God. He suggests specific steps that could be taken to heal and strengthen inter-Orthodox relations, addressing in particular the canonical challenges of the Orthodox diaspora and tensions between the Greek and Slavic components of the Church. He addresses specifically the conflict between the majority Orthodox nations of Russia and Ukraine. Whilst his specific proposals will by no means enjoy universal acceptance, they can serve as a springboard for further dialogue as the Orthodox world seeks to apply these principles in all nations, whatever their current political circumstances may be.

Author : Apostolos Makrakēs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1965-01-01
Category : Christianity and politics
ISBN : 0938366114

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The Political Philosophy of the Orthodox Church by Apostolos Makrakēs Pdf

Author : Frederick D. Wilhelmsen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781351528511

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Christianity and Political Philosophy by Frederick D. Wilhelmsen Pdf

Each chapter in Christianity and Political Philosophy addresses a philosophical problem generated by history. Frederick D. Wilhelmsen discusses the limits of natural law; Cicero and the politics of the public orthodoxy; the problem of political power and the forces of darkness; Sir John Fortescue and the English tradition; Donoso Cortes and the meaning of political power; the natural law tradition and the American political experience; Eric Voegelin and the Christian tradition; and Jaffa, the School of Strauss, and the Christian tradition. Wilhelmsen is convinced that mainstream philosophy's suppression of the Christian experience, or its reduction of Christianity to myths, deprives both Christianity and philosophy. He argues that Christianity opened up an entirely new range of philosophical questions and speculation that today are part and parcel of the intellectual tradition of the West. Wilhelmsen remains relevant because political philosophy in America today is following the historic cycle of political philosophy's importance: as things get worse for the nation because it is internally riven by ideological and spiritual conflicts, there is a greater need for the political philosopher to raise and explore profound questions and reassert forgotten truths about man and society, the soul and God, and good and evil, as well as the ground of political order. This is the latest book in Transaction's esteemed Library of Conservative Thought series.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004440746

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Theology and the Political by Anonim Pdf

Theology and the Political, edited by Alexei Bodrov and Stephen M. Garrett, is a volume animated by the motif of political action as witness in a missional key. The book makes a unique interdisciplinary contribution to the field of political theology.

Author : Carl S. Tyneh
Publisher : Nova Publishers
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1590334663

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Orthodox Christianity by Carl S. Tyneh Pdf

The Orthodox Church is one of the three major branches of Christianity. There are over 300 million adherents throughout the world. The Orthodox Church is a fellowship of independent churches, which split form the Roman Church over the question of papal supremacy in 1054. The Orthodox adherents include people in: Greece, Georgia, Russia, and Serbia. There are an estimated one million members in the United States. This Advanced book explains the basic principles of Orthodox Christianity and describes in detail the holidays observed by the Orthodox Church. In addition, relevant book literature is presented in bibliographic form with easy access provided by title, subject and author indexes.

Author : Irina Papkova
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0199791147

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The Orthodox Church and Russian Politics by Irina Papkova Pdf

"There is little written about the Russian Orthodox Church, and precious little by political scientists who use qualitative, critical methods. This book is a welcome contribution and will receive attention from political scientists, anthropologists, and sociologists of religion." ---Catherine Wanner. Associate Professor of History. Anthropology and Religious Studies. Penn State University --Book Jacket.

Author : Aristotle Papanikolaou
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780268089832

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The Mystical as Political by Aristotle Papanikolaou Pdf

Theosis, or the principle of divine-human communion, sparks the theological imagination of Orthodox Christians and has been historically important to questions of political theology. In The Mystical as Political: Democracy and Non-Radical Orthodoxy, Aristotle Papanikolaou argues that a political theology grounded in the principle of divine-human communion must be one that unequivocally endorses a political community that is democratic in a way that structures itself around the modern liberal principles of freedom of religion, the protection of human rights, and church-state separation. Papanikolaou hopes to forge a non-radical Orthodox political theology that extends beyond a reflexive opposition to the West and a nostalgic return to a Byzantine-like unified political-religious culture. His exploration is prompted by two trends: the fall of communism in traditionally Orthodox countries has revealed an unpreparedness on the part of Orthodox Christianity to address the question of political theology in a way that is consistent with its core axiom of theosis; and recent Christian political theology, some of it evoking the notion of “deification,” has been critical of liberal democracy, implying a mutual incompatibility between a Christian worldview and that of modern liberal democracy. The first comprehensive treatment from an Orthodox theological perspective of the issue of the compatibility between Orthodoxy and liberal democracy, Papanikolaou’s is an affirmation that Orthodox support for liberal forms of democracy is justified within the framework of Orthodox understandings of God and the human person. His overtly theological approach shows that the basic principles of liberal democracy are not tied exclusively to the language and categories of Enlightenment philosophy and, so, are not inherently secular.

Author : Christoph Schneider
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780227177532

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Theology and Philosophy in Eastern Orthodoxy by Christoph Schneider Pdf

Even in the twenty-first century, critical and creative engagement with modern and postmodern philosophy is a rarity in Orthodox circles. The collection of essays presented here by Christoph Schneider makes a significant contribution to overcoming this deficit. Eight scholars from six different countries, working on the intersection between Orthodox thought and philosophy, present their research in short and accessible form. The topics covered range from political philosophy to phenomenology, metaphysics, philosophy of self, logic, ethics, and philosophy of language. The authors do not all promote one particular approach to the relationship between Orthodox theology and philosophy. Nevertheless, taken together, their work demonstrates that Orthodox scholarship is not confined to historical research about the Byzantine era, but can contribute to, and enrich, contemporary intellectual debates.

Author : Aristotle Papanikolaou,Ingeborg Gabriel,Kristina Stoeckl
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Civilization, Modern
ISBN : 0567674177

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Political Theologies in Orthodox Christianity by Aristotle Papanikolaou,Ingeborg Gabriel,Kristina Stoeckl Pdf

Orthodoxy, Democracy, and Gay Marriage -- Conclusion -- Chapter 13 Orthodoxy Facing the Modern Secular State -- Epilogue -- Chapter 14 Civil Religion in the Orthodox Milieu -- Part V SYMPHONIC POLITICAL THEOLOGY -- Chapter 15 Orthodox Theology, Politics, and Power -- The Church Presents Its Social Concept -- Social Ethics and Legitimate Political Agency -- Theological Resources for a Tenable Orthodox Social Ethic -- Toward Universalistic Orthodox Social Ethics -- Chapter 16 Orthodoxy and Democracy in Post-1989 Romania -- The Post-Secular Paradigm -- A New Experience: Religion and Democracy in Eastern Europe after 1989 -- The Orthodox Church in Romania: Involvement or Noninvolvement? -- Can Romania Rely on Orthodoxy in the Process of Democratization? -- Chapter 17 The Church and the Bulgarian Modernities -- Some Words about Modernity in the New Social and Political History of Bulgaria -- The Three Bulgarian Modernities -- The Role of the Church -- Final Words -- Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index

Author : Sabrina P. Ramet
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030241391

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Orthodox Churches and Politics in Southeastern Europe by Sabrina P. Ramet Pdf

Orthodox Churches, like most religious bodies, are inherently political: they seek to defend their core values and must engage in politics to do so, whether by promoting certain legislation or seeking to block other legislation. This volume examines the politics of Orthodox Churches in Southeastern Europe, emphasizing three key modes of resistance to the influence of (Western) liberal values: Nationalism (presenting themselves as protectors of the national being), Conservatism (defending traditional values such as the “traditional family”), and Intolerance (of both non-Orthodox faiths and sexual minorities). The chapters in this volume present case studies of all the Orthodox Churches of the region.

Author : Davor Džalto
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780823294411

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Anarchy and the Kingdom of God by Davor Džalto Pdf

Anarchy and the Kingdom of God reclaims the concept of “anarchism” both as a political philosophy and a way of thinking of the sociopolitical sphere from a theological perspective. Through a genuinely theological approach to the issues of power, coercion, and oppression, Davor Džalto advances human freedom—one of the most prominent forces in human history—as a foundational theological principle in Christianity. That principle enables a fresh reexamination of the problems of democracy and justice in the age of global (neoliberal) capitalism.

Author : Heinrich Albert Rommen
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 764 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UCAL:B5015670

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The State in Catholic Thought by Heinrich Albert Rommen Pdf

Author : Kristina Stoeckl
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Christianity and politics
ISBN : 3631579365

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Community After Totalitarianism by Kristina Stoeckl Pdf

Starting with a definition of political modernity from the angle of its greatest trial, namely totalitarianism, this study pursues two questions: How to conceptualize community after the experience of totalitarianism? And, what can the Eastern Orthodox intellectual tradition contribute to this debate? In both parts of Europe, totalitarianism raised the same political philosophical challenge: How to conceptualize the relationship between the individual and community in the light of the absolute communization of society and the simultaneous absolute atomization of individuals which totalitarianism had brought about? In contemporary Western political philosophy, the reflection upon this experience has taken three principled directions: the unequivocal embrace and conceptual elaboration of liberalism for which the works of John Rawls and Jürgen Habermas are exemplary, the communitarian critique of liberalism for which the works of Charles Taylor and Alasdair MacIntyre are representative, and the postmodern critique which, most clearly expressed in the works of Jean-Luc Nancy, ties the question of community back to the singular human being. In the present study, I add to these three approaches a viewpoint which challenges the limits of all of them. Focusing on the works of Sergej Horužij and Christos Yannaras, I demonstrate how these authors, while accepting the lesson of totalitarianism, seek foundations for their conceptualization of community and human subjectivity in the spiritual and intellectual tradition of Eastern Christianity. My aim is to re-think the political problematic of modernity from the East and beyond liberal, communitarian and postmodern political philosophy in order to extend the interpretative space of political modernity, to sharpen the problematic of community and the human subject after the experience of totalitarianism, and to single out those elements which are especially pertinent for a post-totalitarian philosophy of community: the quality of freedom, the role of practices, and the meaning of tradition.

Author : Cécile Laborde,Aurélia Bardon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198794394

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Religion in Liberal Political Philosophy by Cécile Laborde,Aurélia Bardon Pdf

Until now, there has been no direct and extensive engagement with the category of religion from liberal political philosophy. Over the last thirty years or so, liberals have tended to analyze religion under proximate categories such as 'conceptions of the good' (in debates about neutrality) or 'culture' (in debates about multiculturalism). US constitutional lawyers and French political theorists both tackled the category of religion head-on (under First Amendment jurisprudence and the political tradition of laicite, respectively) but neither of these specialized national discourses found their way into mainstream liberal political philosophy. This is somewhat paradoxical because key liberal notions (state sovereignty, toleration, individual freedom, the rights of conscience, public reason) were elaborated as a response to 17th Century European Wars of Religion, and the fundamental structure of liberalism is rooted in the western experience of politico-religious conflict. So a reappraisal of this tradition - and of its validity in the light of contemporary challenges - is well overdue. This book offers the first extensive engagement with religion from liberal political philosophers. The volume analyzes, from within the liberal philosophical tradition itself, the key notions of conscience, public reason, non-establishment, and neutrality. Insofar as the contemporary religious revival is seen as posing a challenge to liberalism, it seems more crucial than ever to explore the specific resources that the liberal tradition has to answer it.

Author : Loren David Calder
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000706581

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The Political Thought of Yu. F. Samarin, 1840-1864 by Loren David Calder Pdf

First published in 1987. Yu. F. Samarin (1819-1876) was one of the original SIavophiIs. He was the most important Slavophil statesman, making a very significant contribution to the formulation, drafting and implementation of the Emancipation Edict of 1861. He also served creatively in the whole range of Zemstvo council work at both the provincial and municipal levels, and made a substantial impact on policy as a passionate exponent of Russian interests in Poland and the Baltic provinces. In this study Samarin's development and performance as a political thinker is examined from his early days as a master’s student at the University of Moscow to the completion of his work on the peasant land reform in 1864. This book establishes that Samarin was a competent political theorist, who is best characterized as an "enlightened conservative". This title will be of great interest to students of history, politics and philosophy.