The Eucharistic Community is Our Social Program: On the Early Development of Christos Yannaras' Political Theology
Usually focusing on Roman Catholic and Protestant trajectories of thought, political theology seldom takes note of Orthodox Christianity and the politically informed theology and/or theologically informed politics it engenders. In this paper, I engage certain aspects of the contemporary political th...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
[2019]
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Political theology
Year: 2019, Volume: 20, Issue: 4, Pages: 311-330 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Giannaras, Chrēstos 1935-
/ Political theology
/ Society
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| IxTheo Classification: | CH Christianity and Society FD Contextual theology KBK Europe (East) KDF Orthodox Church |
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Christos Yannaras
B eucharistic ecclesiology B Greece B social trinitarianism B Orthodox Christianity |
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| Summary: | Usually focusing on Roman Catholic and Protestant trajectories of thought, political theology seldom takes note of Orthodox Christianity and the politically informed theology and/or theologically informed politics it engenders. In this paper, I engage certain aspects of the contemporary political theology of Christos Yannaras, an academic philosopher, Christian Orthodox theologian and Greek public intellectual. I focus (a) on his understanding of both the political and the ecclesial element of life and society as emerging from the same "mode of existence," (b) on the way in which a political community, when primarily aiming at truth rather than usefulness and efficacy, strives to iconize the Trinity, and (c) on his critique of ideology, while (d) discerning the social and political context in which these ideas first appeared. This will by no means be a comprehensive overview of Yannaras' political theology, as some core aspects thereof remain beyond the scope of my paper. |
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| ISSN: | 1743-1719 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Political theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/1462317X.2017.1402550 |