Christianity, democracy, and the shadow of Constantine

Christianity, democracy, and the shadow of Constantine / George E. Demacopoulos and Aristotle Papanikolaou, editors.

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....

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Other Authors: Demacopoulos, George E. (Editor), Papanikolaou, Aristotle (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [New York] : Fordham University Press, [2017]
Edition:First edition.
Series:Orthodox Christianity and contemporary thought.
Subjects:
Constantine > I, > Emperor of Rome, > -337 > Influence.
Constantine > I, > Emperor of Rome, > -337
Church history.
Christianity and politics.
Democracy > Religious aspects > Christianity.
church history.
RELIGION > Christian Life > Social Issues.
RELIGION > Christianity > General.
Christianity and politics
Church history
Democracy > Religious aspects > Christianity
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Table of 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.

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