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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Autor principal: Budde, Michael L. 1958- (Autor)
Tipo de documento: Print Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
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Publicado: SCM Press 2023
En: Concilium
Año: 2023, Número: 2, Páginas: 144-154
(Cadenas de) Palabra clave estándar:B África / Rusia / Russisch-Orthodoxe Kirche / Nacionalismo
Clasificaciones IxTheo:CG Cristianismo y política
KBK Europa oriental
KBN África subsahariana
KDF Iglesia ortodoxa 
S Derecho eclesiástico
Otras palabras clave:B Nationalism
B PATRIARCHS & patriarchate
B Theologians
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Sumario: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
Obras secundarias:Enthalten in: Concilium