Chapter 11

STUDY AND ACTION GUIDE

11.1. Bibliography

The Church and War

Author unknown: The Early Church and the World. A History of the Christian Attitude to Pagan Society and the State down to the Time of Constantinius, Edinburgh 1925

Bainton, R.: Christian Attitudes toward War & Peace, Nashville, TN 1960

Behr-Sigel, E.: Orthodoxy and Peace, in In Communion, Nativity fast 1995

Cadoux, C.: The Early Christian Attitude to War, NY 1982

Caspary, C.: Politics and Exegesis: Origen and the Two Swords. Berkeley, 1979

Christians and the Roman Army: A..D. 173-337, Church History, 43, 1974, pp. 149-163

Deane, H.: The Political and Social Ideas of St. Augustine, New York 1963

Erickson, J.: "The Hermeneutics of Reconciliation. Perspectives from the Orthodox Liturgical Experience," Reformed Liturgy & Music 30.4 (1996), 196-98.

Harnack, A.: Militia Christi: The Christian Religion and the Military in the First Three Centuries, Philadelphia 1980

Harakas, S., Allen, J. (ed.): "The Morality of War", in Orthodox Synthesis: The Unity of Theological Thought, Crestwood 1981, pp. 67-94.

Helgeland, J., Daly, R. and Patout Burns, S.: Christians and the Military: The Early Experience, Philadelphia 1985.

Hornus, J-M., It Is Not Lawful for Me to Fight: Early Christian Attitudes Toward War, Violence and the State, Scottdale, PA 1980

"Leaflets of St. Sergius", nr. 10, 1929 (in Russian) on Orthodoxy and Military Service

Lossky, V.: Seven Days on the Roads of France (in French), Paris 1998

Miller, T., and Nesbitt, J.: Peace and War in Byzantium, Washington DC 1995

Mother Maria (Skobtsova): How War Opens Our Eyes (in Russian), in: Mat' Maria, Paris 1947

Phan, P.: Social Thought, Vol.20, 1984, Wilmington, Del. 1984

"The Rejection of Military Service by the Early Christians", Theological Studies, 13, 1952, pp. 1-32.

Swift, L.: The Early Fathers on War and Military Service, Vol.19; 1983

Velimirovic, Bishop Nikolai: War and Religion (in Serbian), Belgrade 195?

Zampaglione, G.: The Idea of Peace in Antiquity, Notre Dame 1973

Orthodox Identity and Nationalism

Berdyayev, N.: Christianity and Anti-semitism (in Russian), Paris 1935

Erickson, J.: The Formation of Orthodox Ecclesial Identity (in print)

Huntington, S.: The Clash of Cultures, in: Foreign Affairs, Volume 72 No.3, Summer 1993

Kepel, G.: The Revenge of God; the Resurgence of Islam, Christianity and Judaism in the Modern World, 1993

Kartachov, A.: The Church and National Identity (in Russian), in Tserkov', Istoriya, Rossiya (essays). Moscow 1996

Papathomas, Archimandrite Grigorios: Internal Orthodox Church Mission (input at the 1999 Syndesmos Summer Institute) (in print)

Yanaras, C.: "The Challenge of Orthodox Traditionalism," in Fundamentalism as an Ecumenical Challenge, London n.d.

Church History

Arnold, E.: The Early Christians: a source book on the Witness of the Early Church

Cunningham, A.: The Early Church and the State, Philadelphia 1982

Dennis, G. and Gamillscheg, Das Strategikon des Maurikios, English translation, University of Pennsylvania Press

Goltz, H. (ed.): Survey of the Mediation Attempts of the Russian Orthodox Church During the October 1993 Conflict, Geneva 1993

Kaegi, W. Jr.: Some Thoughts on Byzantine Military Strategy, Brookline, Ma 1983

Meyendorff, Fr. J.: The Byzantine Legacy in the Orthodox Church, Crestwood NY 1982

(on the role of liturgy in maintaining Orthodox ecclesial identity)

Obolensky, D.: The Byzantine Commonwealth, Crestwood, 1971

Regelson, L.: The Tragedy of the Russian Church (in Russian), Moscow 1996

Shavelsky, Fr. G.: Memoirs of the last Protopresbyter of the Russian Army and Fleet (in Russian), Moscow 1996

Skrynnikov, R.: Hierarchs and Authorities (in Russian), Leningrad 1990

Ware, Bishop Kallistos: The Orthodox Church (Baltimore: Penguin Books, n.d.)

Spiritual and Liturgical Texts

The Book of Needs, South Canaan PA, 1987

Gillet, Fr. L.: Serve the Lord with Gladness, Crestwood 1990

St. Nicodemus of the Holy Mountain and St. Theophan the Recluse: Unseen Warfare, Crestwood 1987

Sophrony (Sakharov), Archimandrite: Saint Silouan the Athonite, Essex 1991

Canonical Texts

Metropolitan Maximus of Sardes: The Ecumenical Patriarchate in the Orthodox Church, Thessaloniki 1976

Papathomas, G.: Course of Canon Law -- Appendix VI -- Canonical Glossary, (in French) Paris 1995

The Rudder, Chicago 1957

11.2. Useful Addresses

Syndesmos (the World Fellowship of Orthodox Youth)

Eleftheriou Venizelou 59a

Holargos 15562

Greece

+30-1: 656-0991; fax +30-1: 656-0992

e-mail: [email protected]

web: http://www.syndesmos.org

The Orthodox Peace Fellowship

Kanisstraat 5

1811 GJ Alkmaar

The Netherlands

tel 31 72 5112545

fax 31 72 5154180

e-mail: [email protected]

web: https://incommunion.org

Many useful links to Orthodox Churches, organisations and action groups on www.incommunion.org

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