Category: Church and Modern Society
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The Moral Conservative Wayback Machine and the Deeper Sense of the Closure of Memorial
by Kristina Stoeckl | български | ქართული | ελληνικά | Română | Русский | Српски The identification of moral conservatives in the twenty-first century with historical periods that predate the experience of twentieth century totalitarianism reveals a fundamental blind-spot in contemporary conservatism. Conjuring up political constellations of the 1920s to 40s as analogies for contemporary struggles between conservatives and progressives willfully ignores the ‘lesson’ of […]
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Outside the Camp: Opportunities and Opposition
by V. Rev. Dr. John A. Jillions | български | ქართული | ελληνικά | Română | Русский | Српски The recent dustup over Archbishop Elpidophoros borrowing the historic St Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church in New York City for a celebration of the Divine Liturgy and then subsequently meeting with its rector, Bishop Dean Wolfe, highlights the perennial debate among Orthodox about how we ought to relate to […]
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Being Accommodationist: What Hauerwas and Willimon Really Mean
by Phil Dorroll | български | ქართული | ελληνικά | Русский | Српски The term “accommodationist” has recently become a topic of some contention in global Orthodox Christian conversations on human sexuality. The term was derived from the widely influential book by Stanley Hauerwas and William Willimon, Resident Aliens: Life in the Christian Colony (first […]
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Theology and Pseudo-Theology in the Digital Age
by John A. Monaco | български | ქართული | Ελληνικά | Română | Русский | Српски There is little doubt that we are living in a “digital age,” an age characterized by a move to the virtual and the electronic. The COVID-19 pandemic simply accelerated this trajectory to the point of no return. From an […]
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Folklife and the Authenticity Politics of Orthodox Culture Creation
by Nic Hartmann | български | ქართული | Ελληνικά | Română | Русский | Српски Orthodox culture is alive and well. It is in the loaves of bread that are lovingly made by a Lebanese grandmother for her son’s birthday. It is in our Pascha baskets, our children’s hilarious mispronunciations of “Christ is Risen” in […]
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Schmemann for Our Time: Christ, the Crisis of Our Age
by Fr. Alexis Vinogradov | български | ქართული | Ελληνικά | Русский | Српски Each year since his death in 1983, Father Alexander Schmemann’s legacy is evoked through an established annual lecture in his name at St. Vladimir’s, the theological seminary in New York in which his ideas flourished, nourishing generations of clergy and faithful […]
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Culture Wars Are Not Our Wars
by Archimandrite Cyril Hovorun | български | ქართული | Ελληνικά | Српски American society is polarized to an extent that one can hardly recall. It is as if we have entered a cold civil war. There is another name for this war: culture war, which is a literal translation of the German Kulturkampf. Culture wars […]
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Personhood as “Glocal Citizenship”: Its Christian Roots and the Challenge of the Immigrant Crisis
by Nikolaos Asproulis | български | ქართული | Ελληνικά | Русский | Српски In the midst of the dominant globalization process, as experienced in various areas of life (economy, politics, new modes of communication, technology, or common dangers such as terrorism, environmental catastrophes, continuous fragmentation of the world), an ongoing debate is taking place around […]
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Orthodox Apocalypse: Judgment and Hope for Orthodoxy in the Time of Coronavirus
by Rev. Dr. Anastasios Brandon Gallaher and Fr. Richard Rene | Ελληνικά | Română Coronavirus has descended on our world as an apocalypse, a whirlwind destroying the shelter of our fixed verities, ripping the roofs off our traditions and throwing into the blaze of the sun the hidden sins and fragilities of our institutions. This […]
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Secularization, Multiple Modernities, and the Contemporary Challenge of “Multiple Orthodoxies”
by Fr. Dragos Herescu This essay is part of a series stemming from the ongoing research project “Contemporary Eastern Orthodox Identity and the Challenges of Pluralism and Sexual Diversity in a Secular Age,” which is a joint venture by scholars from Fordham University’s Orthodox Christian Studies Center and the University of Exeter, funded by the […]