Critical analysis of the Moscow Patriarchate vision on the Russian–Ukrainian military conflict: Russkiy mir and just war
This article contrasts the teaching on just war as presented by the 2000 document, ‘Bases of the Social Concept of the Russian Orthodox Church’ (Moscow Patriarchate), with the insights provided by a similar social document issued in 2020 by the Ecumenical Patriarchate, ‘For the Life of the World: To...
| Published in: | Scottish journal of theology |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2023
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Scottish journal of theology
Year: 2023, Volume: 76, Issue: 4, Pages: 332-344 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
For the life of the world
/ Kyrill, I., Moskau, Patriarch 1946-
/ Russisch-Orthodoxe Kirche
/ Ukrainian Conflict
/ Just war
/ Political ethics
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| RelBib Classification: | CG Christianity and Politics KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KBK Europe (East) KDF Orthodox Church NCD Political ethics ZC Politics in general |
| Further subjects: | B
Orthodox Christianity
B Just War B Social Ethics B Political Theology |
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| Summary: | This article contrasts the teaching on just war as presented by the 2000 document, ‘Bases of the Social Concept of the Russian Orthodox Church’ (Moscow Patriarchate), with the insights provided by a similar social document issued in 2020 by the Ecumenical Patriarchate, ‘For the Life of the World: Towards a Social Ethos of the Orthodox Church’. The article argues that whenever religion is instrumentalised to justify the political ambitions of church and secular leaders, and especially when they are used as the main driving force behind military conflicts such as the war in Ukraine, it is the prophetic role of theologians and scholars to show that religion offers resources to deconstruct the weaponisation of Christian faith for political gain. |
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| ISSN: | 1475-3065 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Scottish journal of theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0036930623000613 |