Symphonie als tragfähiges Modell von Kirche-Staat-Beziehungen in der orthodoxen Welt heute?
The relationship between church and state in the Orthodox world has taken various forms at different historical periods and contexts. However, there is a constant feature characterizing these church-state relations diachronically, namely a closeness between church and state in various forms includin...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | German |
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| Published: |
Aschendorff
2023
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| In: |
Catholica <Münster>
Year: 2023, Volume: 77, Issue: 3, Pages: 201-221 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Orthodox Church
/ State
/ Symphony
/ Model
/ History 1970-2023
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| IxTheo Classification: | CG Christianity and Politics KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KDF Orthodox Church SA Church law; state-church law |
| Further subjects: | B
Discourse
B Public Sphere B Symphony B Modernity B Actors B CHURCH & state |
| Summary: | The relationship between church and state in the Orthodox world has taken various forms at different historical periods and contexts. However, there is a constant feature characterizing these church-state relations diachronically, namely a closeness between church and state in various forms including a religious coloring of the public sphere. An exemplary case of this closeness is found in the Byzantine ideal of a symphony (συμφωνία) between church and state, which has left a strong and indelible mark upon Orthodox history as the most appropriate arrangement of church-state relations, claiming fidelity to the genuine Orthodox tradition. A closer look behind contemporary Orthodox discourses on symphony reveals quite divergent visions about church-state relations and the role of the church in the modern world. This article aims to deconstruct the different meanings that the symphonic tradition has acquired mainly in Orthodox majority countries. We argue that these meanings function as tools to justify specific arrangements of church-state relations, based on certain ideological, political and other preferences. They also serve to secure or advance particular interests (e.g., symbolic and financial). Despite their substantial differences, the various options share a common ground: They all are responses to the modern secular developments, irrespective if they rhetorically reject them or attempt to adjust to them via different paths. In fact, the involved Orthodox actors engage with varying degrees of success with modernity and re-imagine symphony in a way that is expected to best serve their orientations, ideals, aims and interests. |
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| ISSN: | 0008-8501 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Catholica |