Church-State Symphonia: its Historical Development and its Applications by the Russian Orthodox Church

This article analyzes the origins of the concept of symphonia, its historical development, and its utilization by the Russian Orthodox Church as a normative ideal for church-state relations. In various historical contexts, this concept has referred to different normative requirements; it relied on d...

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Auteur principal: Antonov, Michail Valerʹevič ca. 20./21. Jh. (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Cambridge Univ. Press [2020]
Dans: Journal of law and religion
Année: 2020, Volume: 35, Numéro: 3, Pages: 474-493
Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés:B Russisch-Orthodoxe Kirche / Russie / État / Église / Harmonie / Théologie orthodoxe
RelBib Classification:AD Sociologie des religions
KBK Europe de l'Est
KDF Église orthodoxe
ZC Politique en général
Sujets non-standardisés:B Rationality
B Symphonia
B Byzantium
B church-state relations
B Russian Orthodox Church
B Religiosity
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Résumé:This article analyzes the origins of the concept of symphonia, its historical development, and its utilization by the Russian Orthodox Church as a normative ideal for church-state relations. In various historical contexts, this concept has referred to different normative requirements; it relied on different paradigms in Byzantium and in medieval Russia and it acquired new meanings in Imperial Russia. The reinterpretations of this concept by the Russian Orthodox Church in order to legitimize its position in the political life of contemporary Russia take this concept far from its original meaning. Using methods from the history of concepts of, among others, Reinhart Koselleck and Quentin Skinner, the author considers how the semantic transformations of symphonia in modern contexts by the Russian Orthodox Church lead to a hollowing of this concept. This conception is hardly reconcilable with the normative logic of the actual Russian political and legal systems.
ISSN:2163-3088
Contient:Enthalten in: Journal of law and religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/jlr.2020.38