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Chapter 4: CANONICAL REFERENCE TEXTS
CANONICAL REFERENCE TEXTS 4.1. Canonical texts from the Apostolic period Canons and rulings not having Conciliar origin but approved by name in canon II of... Read More
Chapter 5: REFERENCE TEXTS FROM THE HOLY FATHERS
REFERENCE TEXTS FROM THE HOLY FATHERS Nation and Nationalism Disregard for the World As long as this body remains common with the rest, its corporal... Read More
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State-church Relations The Political Habits of the World But viewing the treacherous highways, the manifold battles scattered over the whole earth, the exhibition either bloody... Read More
Chapter 6: REFERENCE TEXTS FROM CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS
REFERENCE TEXTS FROM CONTEMPORARY AUTHORS Nation, Nationalism Ethno-phyletism (Racism) There have always been two races in the world; they exist today, and this division is... Read More
Chapter 7: WAR, PEACE AND NATIONALISM IN ORTHODOX LITURGICAL TEXTS
WAR, PEACE AND NATIONALISM IN ORTHODOX LITURGICAL TEXTS 7.1 Prayer for Peace in the Liturgy Extracts from the writings of Archimandrite Lev Gillet, most of... Read More
Chapter 8: Fact sheets
FACT SHEETS 8.1. Martyrs from among Roman officers of the first four centuries The anonymous text "Martyr Soldiers" in Chapter 10, published by a Russian... Read More
Chapter 9: Official statements
OFFICIAL STATEMENTS 9.1. The Local Synod of Constantinople 1872 The Local Synod of Constantinople was caused by the unilateral establishment of a separate bishopric by... Read More
Chapter 10: Essays and Texts
ESSAYS AND TEXTS Address to the Conference on Peace and Tolerance By His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholemeos, Istanbul, Turkey, February 8th, 1994 Exorcising War By... Read More
Exorcising War
By Metropolitan George of Mount Lebanon Metropolitan George, of the Patriarchate of Antioch, lives in Beirut, Lebanon. The text is abridged from Sourozh, magazine of... Read More
Peace and Tolerance
Address to the Conference on Peace and Tolerance By His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholemeos, Istanbul, Turkey, February 8th, 1994 Greetings to all of our brothers... Read More
After the Kosovo crisis
Implications for the Churches By Bishop Irenaeus (Bulovic) of Backa Report to the Inter-Christian Conference "Europe after the Kosovo Crisies: Implications for the Churches" in... Read More
The Orthodox Church and Peace
Some Reflections By Olivier Clément The spiritual and eschatological meaning that Scripture and Christ Himself give to the word "peace" characterizes the Orthodox Church as... Read More
The Teaching on Peace in the Fathers
By Fr. Stanley S. Harakas The following essay will appear as chapter 6 of Fr. Stanley Harakas' forthcoming book, Wholeness of Faith and Life: Orthodox... Read More
Chapter 11: Study and action guide
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... Read More
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