Incommunion Table of Contents

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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.

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
9.5. Statements on the War in Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1994

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
9.6. Statements on the situation in Kosovo, March 1999

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
9.7. Syndesmos Statements

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