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21 ERFURTER STUDIEN In 2018/19, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople initiated the estab- 21 ZUR KULTURGESCHICHTE lishment of an autocephalous (independent) Orthodox Church in Ukraine. This e n process was met with harsh criticism by the Russian Orthodox Church and ai DES ORTHODOXEN CHRISTENTUMS eventually led to a split in the entire Orthodox world. The contributions to kr U this volume examine this conflict and discuss the underlying causes for it in n a broader perspective. They deal with several aspects of Orthodox theology, t i history, church life and culture, and show the existence of a serious rift in the c broader Orthodox world. This became visible most recently in the conflict nfli over the Ukrainian Church autocephaly, yet it has a longer, and more complex o C historical background. e h T ? s n o ti a t s e f ni a M o w T n y i x o d o h t r O ) · s. d e Thomas Bremer / Alfons Brüning / ( Thomas Bremer teaches Ecumenical Theology and Eastern Christian Studies o k at the Department of Catholic Theology, University of Münster, Germany. His n Nadieszda Kizenko (eds.) e research interests include Orthodoxy in Ukraine, in Russia, and in the Balkans, z Ki interchurch relations, and the role of Churches in conflict situations. N. Orthodoxy in Alfons Brüning is a historian and scholar of religion, and is the director of / g the Institute for Eastern Christian Studies, Radboud University Nijmegen, The n Netherlands. His expertise covers the religious history of Eastern Europe, ni Two Manifestations? ü confessionalism, nationalism, and modern social teaching of Orthodox r B Christianity. A. Nadieszda Kizenko is Professor of History and Director of Religious Studies r / The Conflict in Ukraine as Expression at the State University of New York (Albany, USA). Her research focuses e m of a Fault Line in World Orthodoxy on Orthodox Church history in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus, with special e interests in confession, hagiography, and liturgy. Br h. T ISBN 978-3-631-88699-1 www.peterlang.com ESKO_21_288699_Bremer_et_al_ME_HCA5 152x214 globaL.indd Benutzerdefiniert H 05.09.22 13:20 Orthodoxy in Two Manifestations? ERFURTER STUDIEN ZUR KULTURGESCHICHTE DES ORTHODOXEN CHRISTENTUMS Herausgegeben von / Edited by Vasilios N. 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This publication has been peer reviewed. www.peterlang.com Table of Contents Abbreviations ........................................................................................................ 7 Preface ................................................................................................................... 9 Thomas Bremer, Alfons Brüning, Nadieszda Kizenko Introduction: Orthodoxy in Two Manifestations? The Conflict in Ukraine as Expression of a Fault Line in World Orthodoxy ............................................ 11 I. Orthodoxy: Global and Local John H. Erickson Territorial Organization of the Orthodox Church: Historical and Canonical Background to a Current Crisis ................................................... 23 Vera Tchentsova The Patriarchal and Synodal Act of 1686 in Historiographical Perspective ...... 45 II. Conceptualizations Heta Hurskainen The Social Concept of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Social Ethos of the Ecumenical Patriarchate: A Comparison of Central Aspects ................... 73 Regina Elsner Toward an Orthodox Social Ethos? Socio-Ethical Negotiations in Ukrainian Orthodoxy ...................................................................................... 97 Kathy Rousselet The Russian Orthodox Church and the Russkii Mir ......................................... 121 Alfons Brüning “Kyivan Christianity” and the “Churches of the Kyivan Tradition”: Concepts of Distinctiveness of Christianity in Ukraine before and after 2019 ......................................................................................... 145 III. Ecclesiological Issues Nicholas Denysenko Conciliarity in Ukrainian Orthodoxy ................................................................ 173 6 Table of Contents Ioan Moga Synodality as Syncephaly? A Plea for a Pastoral-Participative Renewal of the Pan-Orthodox Practice of Synodality ..................................................... 193 Evgeny Pilipenko The Idea of “Unity” in Orthodoxy .................................................................... 209 Nadieszda Kizenko Contemporary Liturgical Practices in the UOC and OCU and their Implications ....................................................................................... 237 Sergii Bortnyk Church and Exclusivism in Ukrainian Orthodoxy ............................................ 259 Lidiya Lozova and Tetiana Kalenychenko The Role of the Laity: Some Observations from Inside ................................... 287 Pavlo Smytsnyuk The New Orthodox Church in Ukraine: Ecumenical Aspects and Problems ... 303 Thomas Bremer New Approaches in Ecclesiology? Reflections Induced by the Ukrainian Crisis ........................................................................................... 333 IV. Church, State and Society Elena A. Stepanova The Place of the Church in Society: Provider of a Moral Code? ...................... 353 Aristotle Papanikolaou The Ascetical as the Civic: Civil Society as Political Communion .................. 379 Nathaniel Wood Church and State in Orthodox Christianity: Two Versions of Symphonia ....... 397 Adalberto Mainardi Afterword .......................................................................................................... 419 List of Contributors ........................................................................................... 425 Abbreviations AUOCC (All-)Ukrainian Orthodox Church Commi(cid:87)tee CEC Conference of European Churches EP Ecumenical Patriarchate (Constantinople) KP Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyivan Patriarchate MP Moscow Patriarchate OCU Orthodox Church of Ukraine ROC Russian Orthodox Church SC Bases of the Social Concept (Russian Orthodox Church) SE “For the Life of the World” – Towards a Social Ethos of the Orthodox Church UAOC Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church UCCRO (All-)Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations UGCC Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church UOC Ukrainian Orthodox Church UOC-KP Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Kyivan Patriarchate (or KP) UOC-MP Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Moscow Patriarchate (or UOC) UOCC Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Canada WCF World Congress of Families WCC World Council of Churches Preface The manuscript of this volume was finalized in November 2021; formatting of the text was finished in January 2022. The articles included in this book were conceived in an academic context and atmosphere in the best sense, where the analysis of concepts, together with efforts to understand, and possibly reconcile, various viewpoints and approaches is ul- timately supposed to contribute to the bridging of gaps and elimination of preju- dices. Our Ukrainian colleagues readily joined us in this effort. The war launched on Ukraine by the Russian Federation on February 24, 2022, has brought cardinal changes to the original context and atmosphere. The voices of some Orthodox leaders have tried to justify this war, or even to endow it with pseudo-religious meaning and motives. But this war is simply a crime. A crime cannot have any hidden or overt religious justification, and there is little, if any, possibility for dialogue, academic or otherwise, between scholars of Chris- tianity committed to peace and those misusing Christian teaching for the justifi- cation of an aggressive war, which violates all standards of international law es- tablished for decades. Here too, then, is new a fault line in Orthodoxy, which already has been no- ticed with concern. The war, and its repercussions among the churches, will dis- play, and already have displayed, their effects in world Orthodoxy. The fault line addressed in our volume is another one. There can be, and hopefully will be in new circumstances, a dialogue between adherents of different theological or historiographical concepts of whatever label and categorization, be that “liberal,” “traditional,” “conservative,” or something else. This dialogue can take place once it is clear that it is supposed to happen on the ground of shared basic ethics and scholarly convictions and principles. Among the most important of them are mutual respect and the condemnation of violence. At this moment, we can only hope that the articles in this volume retain their value for future encounters and exchange of thoughts, in a safe, recovered, and flourishing Ukraine, and beyond. The idea for this book arose shortly before summer 2020. We would like to express our gratitude to all our authors for reacting promptly to our requests, for submitting their excellent contributions, and keeping the occasionally short-term deadlines. We also must express our thanks to the student assistants of the Ecumenical Institute, University of Münster, and to Dr. Sebastian Rimestad, Weimar, for their valuable help with the formal corrections and the formatting of the manuscript.
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