Tag: Symphonia
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Must Orthodoxy Be a Barrier to Liberal Democracy? The Case of Serbia 1903-1914
by Boris Begović | ελληνικά | ру́сский | српски It is obvious that the fall of communism made the Orthodox face issues regarding democratic secularism. By secularism, I mean not the decline-of-religion meaning, which has been completely discredited, but secularism understood as pluralism, according to Aristotle Papanikolaou, as he defined it recently at his keynote lecture, […]
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Toward a Multicultural Symphonia: Orthodox Solidarity in an Age of Diversity
by Chris Durante With all of the controversies concerning non-attendance at the Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church that took place in Crete this past June, I would like to propose that a re-conceptualization of the Byzantine religio-political ideal of symphonia might be able to speak to the issue of the Orthodox world’s […]