03564oam 22007334a 450 991015464050332120230623180307.00-8232-7422-50-8232-7421-70-8232-7423-310.1515/9780823274222(CKB)3710000000908875(MiAaPQ)EBC4681132(OCoLC)961911781(MdBmJHUP)muse52721(DE-B1597)555455(DE-B1597)9780823274222(MiAaPQ)EBC5316714(OCoLC)962149394(MiAaPQ)EBC4729808(OCoLC)962156514(ScCtBLL)9852082f-61c2-4239-ba77-5907866a4a72(EXLCZ)99371000000090887520160810d2017 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierChristianity, Democracy, and the Shadow of ConstantineGeorge E. Demacopoulos and Aristotle Papanikolaou, editorsFirst edition.New York :Fordham University Press,[2017]©[2017]1 online resource (302 pages)Orthodox christianity and contemporary thoughtIncludes index.0-8232-7420-9 0-8232-7419-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Outrunning Constantine’s Shadow --Moral Argument in the Human Rights Debate of the Russian Orthodox Church --Post- Communist Orthodox Countries and Secularization --Power to the People --Power, Protest, and Perichoresis --Strange Fruit --An Orthodox Encounter with Liberal Democracy --Democracy and the Dynamics of Death --“I Have Overcome the World” --Emperors and Bishops of Constantinople (324–431) --Stepping Out of Constantine’s Shadow --“You Cannot Have a Church Without an Empire” --Roman Catholicism and Democracy: The Postconciliar Era --How (Not) to Be a Political Theologian --Contributors --IndexWinner of the 2017 Alpha Sigma Nu Award The collapse of communism in eastern Europe has forced traditionally Eastern Orthodox countries to consider the relationship between Christianity and liberal democracy. Contributors examine the influence of Constantinianism in both the post-communist Orthodox world and in Western political theology. Constructive theological essays feature Catholic and Protestant theologians reflecting on the relationship between Christianity and democracy, as well as Orthodox theologians reflecting on their tradition’s relationship to liberal democracy. The essays explore prospects of a distinctively Christian politics in a post-communist, post-Constantinian age.Orthodox Christianity and contemporary thought.Religion / Religion, Politics & StatebisacshReligionChristianity.Constantine.East.Orthodox.West.democracy.liberalism.political theology.post-communist.Religion / Religion, Politics & StateReligion261.7Papanikolaou AristotleDemacopoulos George E.MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910154640503321Christianity, Democracy, and the Shadow of Constantine2065713UNINA