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For the Peace From Above: a Resource Book on War, Peace and Nationalism
is dedicated to all Orthodox youth living in places of war and conflict, as a tribute to their courage and faith.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Chapter 1: How to use this Resource Book
Chapter 2: Defining terms: definitions from dictionaries and Church authors
Chapter 3: Reference texts from Holy Scripture
Chapter 4: Canonical reference texts
- 4.1. Canonical texts from the Apostolic period
- 4.2. Canons from the Ecumenical Councils
- 4.3. Canons from the Local Councils
- 4.4. Canons from the Fathers of the Church
Chapter 5: Reference texts from the Holy Fathers
Chapter 6: Reference texts from contemporary authors
Chapter 7: Nationalism, War and Peace in Orthodox liturgical texts
- 7.1. Prayer for Peace in the Liturgy Archimandrite Lev Gillet
- 7.2. From the Divine Liturgy of St. Basil the Great
- 7.3. Commentary on the Mysteries: St. Cyril of Alexandria
- 7.4. Prayers by the Lake: Bishop Nikolai of Ochrid
- 7.5. A Soldier’s Prayer
- 7.6. Prayer for the Salvation of the Russian State: St. Tikhon of Moscow
- 7.7. Prayers for peace in former Yugoslavia
- 7.8. On the Issue of the blessing of weapons
- 7.9. Prayer for the pacification of animosity
Chapter 8: Fact sheets
- 8.1. Martyrs from among Roman officers of the first four centuries
- 8.2. Monastic Peacekeeping in Kosovo
Chapter 9: Official statements
- 9.1. The Local Synod of Constantinople 1872
- 9.2. The Bosporus Declaration
- 9.3. Statement on the situation in Armenia-Azerbaijan, 1993
- 9.4. Statements on the events in Russia, October 1993
- Appeal by the Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia, Alexy II, 29/9/1993
- Statement by the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church, 1/10/1993
- Statement of Patriarch Pavle of Serbia to the participants at the WCC Central Committee meeting in South Africa, 20-26/1 1994
- Message of the Assembly of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church from its extraordinary meeting in Banja Luka, 1-4/11 1994
- Appeal for peace and understanding among all people, 4/9 1994
- Kosovo Peace and Tolerance — Vienna Declaration, 18/3 1999
- Peace Appeal of the Serbian Orthodox Church, 23/3 1999
- Statement of the Orthodox Church of Albania, 29/3 1999
- Declaration of the Syndesmos War and Peace in Europe Seminar, 1-9/10 1994
- A cry of World Orthodox Youth regarding the Kosovo and Methohija Crisis, VIth Syndesmos General Assembly, 24/7 1999
Chapter 10: Essays and Texts
- Address to the Conference on Peace and Tolerance, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholemeos, 1994
- Exorcising War, Metropolitan George of Mount Lebanon, 1993
- “May peace and justice once more reign in the Balkans”, an interview with Archbishop Anastasios of Albania, 1999
- After the Kosovo-crisis: Implications for the Churches, Bishop Irenaeus of Backa, 1999
- The Orthodox Church and Peace — Some Reflections, Olivier Clément, 1991
- The Teaching on Peace in the Fathers, Fr. Stanley Harakas, 1999
- Martyr soldiers, Anonymous, 1929
- The Sanctity of the Military Endeavour, Anton Kartachov, 1929
