Tag: Secularization
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The Flame in Our Lady’s Hair
by His Grace Bishop Maxim (Vasiljevic) Paris is not merely a place, it is also a “way of life,” said the Athenian theologian and philosopher Christos Yannaras. And the way of life is always the result of how (the manner in which) things exist. At the onset of this millennium, Catherine Dolez, a professor at the […]
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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 […]
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The Greek Orthodox Church Meets Secularization
by Nikolaos Asproulis Since the establishment of the Modern Greek state (1830), the Greek Orthodox Church has functioned more or less as one of the (perhaps the most important) institutions of the state and continues to enjoy certain symbolic and other privileges (“prevailing religion”) granted by the Constitution. The progressively-closer dependence of the Church on […]