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First edition. |
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1 online resource. |
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Orthodox Christianity and contemporary thought |
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Orthodox Christianity and contemporary thought.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Note |
Print version record. |
Contents |
Moral argument in the human rights debate of the Russian orthodox church -- Post-communist orthodox countries and secularization : the Lautsi case and the fracture of Europe -- Power to the people : orthodoxy, consociational democracy, and the move beyond phyletism -- Power, protest, and perichoresis : on being church in a troubled world -- Strange fruit : Augustine, liberalism, and the good Samaritan -- An orthodox encounter with liberal democracy -- Democracy and the dynamics of death : orthodox reflections on the origin, purpose, and limits of politics -- "I have overcome the world" : the church, the liberal state, and Christ's two natures in the Russian politics of theosis -- Emperors and bishops of Constantinople -- Stepping out of Constantine's shadow -- "You cannot have a church without an Empire" : political orthodoxy in Byzantium -- Roman catholicism and democracy : the postconciliar era -- How (not) to be a political theologian. |
Summary |
The collapse of communism in eastern Europe has forced traditionally Eastern Orthodox countries to consider the relationship between Christianity and liberal democracy. Contributors examine the influence of Constantinianism in both the post-communist Orthodox world and in Western political theology. Constructive theological essays feature Catholic and Protestant theologians reflecting on the relationship between Christianity and democracy, as well as Orthodox theologians reflecting on their tradition's relationship to liberal democracy. The essays explore prospects of a distinctively Christian politics in a post-communist, post-Constantinian age. |
Subject |
Constantine I, Emperor of Rome, -337 -- Influence.
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Constantine I, Emperor of Rome, -337. (OCoLC)fst01813658
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Church history.
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Christianity and politics.
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Democracy -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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RELIGION -- Christian Life -- Social Issues.
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RELIGION -- Christianity -- General.
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Christianity and politics. (OCoLC)fst00859736
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Church history. (OCoLC)fst00860740
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Democracy -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
(OCoLC)fst00890101
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) (OCoLC)fst00972484
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Added Author |
Demacopoulos, George E., editor.
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Papanikolaou, Aristotle, editor.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Christianity, democracy, and the shadow of Constantine. First edition. New York : Fordham University Press, [2017] 9780823274192 (DLC) 2016027219 (OCoLC)957264686 |
ISBN |
9780823274222 (electronic bk.) |
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0823274225 (electronic bk.) |
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9780823274239 (electronic bk.) |
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0823274233 (electronic bk.) |
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9780823274215 (electronic bk.) |
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0823274217 (electronic bk.) |
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9780823274192 |
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0823274195 |
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9780823274208 |
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0823274209 |
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