The Patriarch's Heresy

With both the Russian state and the Russian Orthodox Church aiming to increase their influence across Africa, African theologians and church leaders would benefit from learning about the particular sort of church-state relations embraced by these powerful Russian institutions. In particular, matters...

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Main Author: Budde, Michael L. 1958- (Author)
Format: Print Article
Language:English
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Published: SCM Press 2023
In: Concilium
Year: 2023, Issue: 2, Pages: 144-154
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Africa / Russia / Russisch-Orthodoxe Kirche / Nationalism
IxTheo Classification:CG Christianity and Politics
KBK Europe (East)
KBN Sub-Saharan Africa
KDF Orthodox Church
SA Church law; state-church law
Further subjects:B Nationalism
B PATRIARCHS & patriarchate
B Theologians
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Summary:With both the Russian state and the Russian Orthodox Church aiming to increase their influence across Africa, African theologians and church leaders would benefit from learning about the particular sort of church-state relations embraced by these powerful Russian institutions. In particular, matters of religious nationalism loom large, in ways that make the church a wholly subordinated tool of state policy and expansion. African Christians can gain from studying the contemporary Russian case, and seeing in it a cautionary tale relevant to their own debates on more and less adequate relations with state actors.
ISSN:0010-5236
Contains:Enthalten in: Concilium