Orthodoxy, Church and State

L3

For centuries, the relationship between Orthodox churches and the state with majority-Orthodox countries has been close. This lecture explains the historical and theological background to this relationship, and how it was changed by Communism and the collapse of Marxist regimes.

Recommended Reading: 

The Constitution of Greece.

Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, Bases of the Social Concept of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Patriarchate of Georgia, Constitutional Agreement between State of Georgia and Georgian Apostolic Autocephaly Orthodox Church, Chapter 2.

Steve Runciman, The Great Church in Captivity: A study of the Patriarcate of Constantinople from Eve of the Turkish Conquest to the Greek War of Independence, (Cambridge: University Press, 1986).

Instructor

Very Rev. Michael Butler
Archpriest, Orthodox Church of America

Instructor Teaches