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 the Synod in Trullo. The 85 Canons of the Holy and Altogether August Apostles[1] CANON VI: Let not a bishop, presbyter, or deacon, undertake worldly business; otherwise let him be...
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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 condition must also be common, and it is not granted the members of the human race to be separated from one another, unless there is withdrawal from this life. Meanwhile,...
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Chapter 5 page 2

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 or vile, the infamies of lust offered for sale in brothels or enclosed within domestic walls, whose daring is greater in proportion to the secrecy of the sin, the forum...
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Chapter 6

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 more important than all other divisions. There are those who crucify and those who are crucified, those that oppress and those who are oppressed, those who hate and those who...
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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 more important than all other divisions. There are those who crucify and those who are crucified, those that oppress and those who are oppressed, those who hate and those who...
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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 whose books were published anonymously as "A Monk of the Eastern Church" The Great Litany by which the Divine Liturgy begins opens with a fervent request that peace be granted...
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Chapter 7

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 whose books were published anonymously as "A Monk of the Eastern Church" The Great Litany by which the Divine Liturgy begins opens with a fervent request that peace be granted...
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