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<p>The document titled For the Life of the World: Toward a Social Ethos of the Ortho dox Church, authored by a special commission of Orthodox scholars appointed by the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew is a document that can be definitely understood as a political manifesto of Eastern Orthodoxy for the 21<sup>st</sup> century, namely for this period of history and not for a by-gone historical setting or a Christian utopia (either the Byzantine Empire or Holy Russia), a period of time with urgent problems and challenges that call for our attention. Therefore, bringing to the fore the personalist anthropological view inherent in the document itself, an attempt has been made in the text to critically reflect and highlight certain relevant aspects of the document (a positive reception of liberal democracy, human rights language, solidarity to the poor, etc.). The goal is to show how theologically important this document is for the Church witness to our pluralistic world.</p>
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The document titled For the Life of the World: Toward a Social Ethos of the Ortho dox Church, authored by a special commission of Orthodox scholars appointed by the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew is a document that can be definitely understood as a political manifesto of Eastern Orthodoxy for the 21st century, namely for this period of history and not for a by-gone historical setting or a Christian utopia (either the Byzantine Empire or Holy Russia), a period of time with urgent problems and challenges that call for our attention. Therefore, bringing to the fore the personalist anthropological view inherent in the document itself, an attempt has been made in the text to critically reflect and highlight certain relevant aspects of the document (a positive reception of liberal democracy, human rights language, solidarity to the poor, etc.). The goal is to show how theologically important this document is for the Church witness to our pluralistic world.

Doing Orthodox Political Theology Today Insights from the Document <italic>For the Life of the World: Toward a Social Ethos of the Orthodox Church</italic> (2020)

deputy director, Volos Academy for Theological Studies, Lecturer, Hellenic Open University

Review of Ecumenical Studies Sibiu

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Doing Orthodox Political Theology Today Insights from the Document  (2020)

The document titled For the Life of the World: Toward a Social Ethos of the Ortho dox Church, authored by a special commission of Orthodox scholars appointed...

Doing Orthodox Political Theology Today Insights from the Document For the Life of the World: Toward a Social Ethos of the Orthodox Church (2020)

Published Online: May 29, 2021

Page range: 16 - 30

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ress-2021-0002

Keywords
Political theology, imago Dei, human dignity, Church and World Dogmatics, liberal democracy, human rights, solidarity

© 2021 Nikolaos Asproulis, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Doing Orthodox Political Theology Today Insights from the Document For the Life of the World: Toward a Social Ethos of the Orthodox Church (2020)

Published Online: May 29, 2021

Page range: 16 - 30

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ress-2021-0002

KeywordsPolitical theology, imago Dei, human dignity, Church and World Dogmatics, liberal democracy, human rights, solidarity

© 2021 Nikolaos Asproulis, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
Political theology, imago Dei, human dignity, Church and World Dogmatics, liberal democracy, human rights, solidarity