Ecclesiastical nationalism and primacy in world Orthodoxy: the case of the Serbian Church at the pan-Orthodox Council in Crete

The Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church (2016) was supposed to be, above all, a demonstration of Orthodox unity. However, four autocephalous Orthodox churches were absent and others were split internally over their stances towards the Council. Ethnophyletism (ecclesiastical nationalism) an...

Descripción completa

Guardado en:  
Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Hofmeisterová, Karin (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Verificar disponibilidad: HBZ Gateway
Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Publicado: [2019]
En: Religion, state & society
Año: 2019, Volumen: 47, Número: 3, Páginas: 341-357
(Cadenas de) Palabra clave estándar:B Panorthodoxes Konzil (2016 : Kolymbari) / Serbisch-orthodoxe Kirche / Nacionalismo
Clasificaciones IxTheo:KBK Europa oriental
KDF Iglesia ortodoxa 
Otras palabras clave:B The Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church
B Primacy
B The Serbian Orthodox Church
B ethnophyletism
Acceso en línea: Volltext (Resolving-System)
Descripción
Sumario:The Holy and Great Council of the Orthodox Church (2016) was supposed to be, above all, a demonstration of Orthodox unity. However, four autocephalous Orthodox churches were absent and others were split internally over their stances towards the Council. Ethnophyletism (ecclesiastical nationalism) and disagreements between the Orthodox churches over universal primacy have often been emphasised as the factors which eventually prevented the display of full pan-Orthodox conciliarity. By analysing official documents of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SOC) and the statements of Serbian hierarchs, I assess the role of ethnophyletism and primacy in the SOC's positioning regarding the Council. I conclude that ethnophyletism and a lack of consensus over primacy were overshadowed by the cleavage between progressive and conservative tendencies within the SOC as well as beyond autocephalous frontiers. The study may thus contribute to a better understanding of the current challenges to pan-Orthodox conciliarity in general.
ISSN:1465-3974
Obras secundarias:Enthalten in: Religion, state & society
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/09637494.2019.1609226