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Despite their largely pacifist origins, Christianity and Christian traditions can claim only limited success in their efforts to conciliate conflict, avoid violence, and stop war. Perhaps it is time, say the eminent contributors to this deeply reflective volume, to look at Eastern and Oriental traditions to the very different perspectives of Orthodox Christian on issues of war, peace, and the justice that must undergird peace.Writing from Europe and Russia, as well as the Middle East and Asia, two dozen Orthodox theologians and church people cast the classic dilemmas of war and peace, military service, just war, and religious nationalism into a deeper theological framework. Contents include historical characterizations of Orthodox in a variety of settings and nations (Greece, Oriental Christianity, Bulgaria, Armenia, Western Europe, etc.), dilemmas of nationalism for the churches, the invasion of Iraq, globalization, fundamentalisms, interreligious tensions, the ecclesial vocation of peacemaking.PART ONE: Orthodox Peace Ethics in Eastern and Oriental ChristianityPART TWO: Orthodox Contribution to a Theology of Just Peace: Developing the Principles of Just PeaceSemegnish Asfaw is Research Associate in the World Council of Churches program The Decade to Overcome Violence.Alexios Chehadeh is Exarchos of the Antiochian Church and the Institute for Theology and Peace, Hamburg, Germany.Marian Gh. Simion is Associate Director of the Boston Theological Institute and founder of the Institute for Peace Studies in Eastern Christianity, Boston.
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Table of contents
- Contributors
- Introduction
- An Orthodox Contribution toward a Theology of Just Peace
- Peace: A Divine Gift and Human Responsibility
- Every Human Being Is a Creation of God
- You Shall Love Your Neighbor as Yourself
- 1. Nationalism and Orthodoxy in Father Dumitru StÄniloaeās Thinking
- 2. The Coptic Orthodox Church on War and Peace
- 3. Engaging the Realities of War and Peace in the Bulgarian Orthodox Tradition
- 4. Relations between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Military
- 5. The Armenian Orthodox Churchās Justiļ¬cation of the Use of Violence during War
- 6. Greek Religious Nationalism and the Challenges of Evangelization, Forgiveness and Reconciliation
- 7. Reļ¬ections from History, Culture and Theology in the Indian Malankara Orthodox Church
- 8. Orthodox Perspectives in the Americas and Western Europe on the Invasion of Iraq
- 9. Orthodox Observations on Peace and War
- 10. Peace-War-Ecclesia in Modern Greece: Fragments and Continuities
- 11. The Church Must Speak Out for Peace and Justice
- 12. The Peaceable Vocation of the Church in a Global World
- 13. An Orthodox Perspective from an Asian Context
- 14. The Orthodox Church in Situations of War and Conļ¬ict
- 15. Orthodox Christianity and Islam: from Modernity to Globalization, from Fundamentalism to Multiculturalism and the Ethics of Peace
- 17. Theological and Historical Review
- 18. Peace and Social Theology in the Thought of Nicolae Mladin, Metropolitan of Transylvania
- 19. Understanding the Concept of Just Peace in the Contemporary Teaching of the Russian Orthodox Church