Orthodoxy in two manifestations? [Elektronische Ressource] the conflict in Ukraine as expression of a fault line in world Orthodoxy

In 2018/19, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople initiated the establishment of an autocephalous (independent) Orthodox Church in Ukraine. This process was met with harsh criticism by the Russian Orthodox Church and eventually led to a split in the entire Orthodox world. The contributions to this volume examine this conflict and discuss the underlying causes for it in a broader perspective. They deal with several aspects of Orthodox theology, history, church life and culture, and show the existence of a serious rift in the broader Orthodox world. This became visible most recently in the conflict over the Ukrainian Church autocephaly, yet it has a longer, and more complex historical background. Table of Contents Abbreviations Preface Introduction: Orthodoxy in Two Manifestations? The Conflict in Ukraine as Expression of a Fault Line in World Orthodoxy • Thomas Bremer, Alfons Brüning, Nadieszda Kizenko I. Orthodoxy: Global and Local Territorial Organization of the Orthodox Church: Historical and Canonical Background to a Current Crisis • John H. Erickson The Patriarchal and Synodal Act of 1686 in Historiographical Perspective • Vera Tchentsova II. Conceptualizations The Social Concept of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Social Ethos of the Ecumenical Patriarchate: A Comparison of Central Aspects • Heta Hurskainen Toward an Orthodox Social Ethos? Socio-Ethical Negotiations in Ukrainian Orthodoxy • Regina Elsner The Russian Orthodox Church and the Russkii Mir • Kathy Rousselet “Kyivan Christianity” and the “Churches of the Kyivan Tradition”: Concepts of Distinctiveness of Christianity in Ukraine before and after 2019 • Alfons Brüning III. Ecclesiological Issues Conciliarity in Ukrainian Orthodoxy • Nicholas Denysenko Synodality as Syncephaly? A Plea for a Pastoral-Participative Renewal of the Pan-Orthodox Practice of Synodality • Ioan Moga The Idea of “Unity” in Orthodoxy • Evgeny Pilipenko Contemporary Liturgical Practices in the UOC and OCU and their Implications • Nadieszda Kizenko Church and Exclusivism in Ukrainian Orthodoxy • Sergii Bortnyk The Role of the Laity: Some Observations from Inside • Lidiya Lozova and Tetiana Kalenychenko The New Orthodox Church in Ukraine: Ecumenical Aspects and Problems • Pavlo Smytsnyuk New Approaches in Ecclesiology? Reflections Induced by the Ukrainian Crisis • Thomas Bremer IV. Church, State and Society The Place of the Church in Society: Provider of a Moral Code • Elena A. Stepanova The Ascetical as the Civic: Civil Society as Political Communion • Aristotle Papanikolaou Church and State in Orthodox Christianity: Two Versions of Symphonia • Nathaniel Wood Afterword • Adalberto Mainardi List of Contributors "In 2018/19, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople initiated the establishment of an autocephalous (independent) Orthodox Church in Ukraine. This process was met with harsh criticism by the Russian Orthodox Church and led eventually to a split in the entire Orthodox world. The contributions to this volume examine this conflict and discuss in a broader perspective the underlying causes for it. They deal with several aspects of Orthodox theology, history, church life and culture, and show the existence of a serious rift in the broader Orthodox world. This became visible most recently in the conflict over the Ukrainian Church autocephaly, yet it has a much longer and diverse historical background"-- Provided by publisher The book deals with Orthodox Christianity in Ukraine after the emergence of the autocephalous Orthodox Church of Ukraine in 2018/19 and examines related conflicts with regard to developments in Eastern Orthodox Christianity worldwide.