Peacemaking As Vocation: Toward an Orthodox Understanding by Fr. Emmanuel Clapsis
Peacemaking As Vocation: Toward an Orthodox Understanding by Fr. Emmanuel Clapsis For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find... Read More
Of Whom I am First: on the death of Osama Bin Laden
By Ágúst Symeon Magnússon At the time of this writing most of the world’s newspapers and television channels are reporting on the... Read More
Orthodox Perspectives on Peace, War and Violence
[abstract: Recent international conferences on Orthodox peace ethics held in Bucharest (Romania), Leros (Greece) and Saidnaya (Syria) drew participants from around the world and provided unique opportunities for Orthodox scholars to reflect on common themes such as peacemaking, the definition of “just peace” and the moral and spiritual challenges posed by warfare and the use of violence in a variety of contexts. Though the consultations revealed diversity on many dimensions of the application of Orthodox tradition, a point of consensus was that Eastern Christianity interprets issues of war and peace in distinctive ways that do not align perfectly with the dominant categories of Christianity in the West. The experience and teaching of Orthodox Christianity do not fit neatly within the familiar categories of pacifism, just war theory and holy war. Instead, they provide pastoral resources for the pursuit of a dynamic praxis of peace, the manifestation of which takes various forms in light of the set of circumstances that the Orthodox community faces.1 This article will describe the distinctive characteristics of Orthodox moral theology's understanding of peace, war and violence in the context of the church's theology, canon law and liturgical life.]
Living on the Wrong Side of the Wall
by Maria C. Khoury Hoping someone might want to boost the Palestinian economy by buying some of my books, I traveled to... Read More
Iran: The Next Evil Empire?
by Alex Patico Children playing at the Fin Garden in Kashan, Iran. photo by Tilo Driessen To us in the West, Iran... Read More
Nonviolence and Peace Traditions in Early & Eastern Christianity
By Fr. John McGuckin Fr. John McGuckin is professor of Church History at Union Theological Seminary and professor of Byzantine History at... Read More
Introduction
In 1968, a Syndesmos General Assembly took place at the very moment that the established order in Western Europe seemed about to... 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... 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... Read More