Fault Lines in the Orthodox World

Geopolitics, Theology, and Diplomacy in Light of the War in Ukraine

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

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Throughout the past years, the Orthodox world has seen numerous political and theological confrontations. The confrontations are born out of a complex entanglement of church politics, theological differences, legal tensions, national allegiances, and the very concrete political and military clashes between nation states.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-03-07
Mått148 x 210 x 21 mm
Vikt558 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor327
FörlagSpringer International Publishing AG
ISBN9783031815041

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Sebastian Rimestad is Senior Researcher at the Institute for the Study of Religion, University of Leipzig, Germany. His research focuses on religion in modern conditions, religious conversion, and Orthodox Christianity.Emil Hilton Saggau is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Theology and Religious Studies, Lund University, Sweden. His research focuses on Orthodox theology and history in Southeastern Europe. Since 2024, he is the General Secretary of the Danish National Council of Churches.

Geopolitical Fault Lines in Global Orthodoxy: An Introduction.- Part I. Ecumenical Aspects.- Christian Unity and Orthodox Cultural Agendas.- Returning Geopolitics as an Ecumenical Challenge: The War in Ukraine and the End of Traditional Church Diplomacy.- Part II. Ideological Aspects.- Russian Orthodoxy and the West: A Conflict of Historiographies.- “Katechon”, “Third Rome”, and “Holy War”: “Russian” and “Serbian World(s)” as Eschatological Geopolitical Exceptionalisms.- “Orthodox Survival Courses” and Anti-Ecumenism in U.S. Eastern Orthodoxy.- Part III. Russia and Ukraine.- The Ukrainian Orthodox Church Facing The Challenge Of War: The Relations with The Moscow Patriarchate and The Problem of A New Canonical Status.- “Thou Shalt Not Kill”: Opposition To The War In Ukraine Among Russian Orthodox Believers.- The One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church?: Russian and Ukrainian Parishes in Germany.- Part IV. The Other Churches.- Checkmate – Orthodox diplomacy in Montenegro and Macedonia in the Shadows of the Ukrainian War.- A Schism in the Making? Orthodox Diplomacy, Jurisdictional Conflict, and Geopolitical Negotiations between Romanian and Russian Orthodoxy in the Post-Communist Era.- The Orthodox Church of Finland’s arguments concerning Russia’s war in Ukraine.