CRS Seminar with Sebastian Rimestad: Orthodox Christianity and Political Borders. Special Seminar I: The Heartland

Type: 
Seminar
Audience: 
Open to the Public
Building: 
Nador u. 9, Faculty Tower
Room: 
FT 808
Wednesday, February 20, 2013 - 5:30pm
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Date: 
Wednesday, February 20, 2013 - 5:30pm to 7:00pm

In this seminar, we will discuss the interaction between Orthodox Christianity and politics, especially what concerns the borders between political entities. Unlike the Roman Catholic Church, where the Church is considered unaffected by political borders and the Protestant Churches, which consider themselves subordinated to politics, the Orthodox Church consists of a number of territorially defined local Churches, independent in administrative and organisational terms, but nonetheless full members of the one and holy universal Orthodox Church. Our analysis will cover the historical, the theological and the sociological dimensions. The two sessions of the seminar cover respectively the Orthodox ‘Heartland’and the Orthodox ‘Diaspora’, which require very different approaches to the question.

Sebastian Rimestad studied Political Science and Religious Studies in Aberdeen, Tartu and Erfurt. He completed his PhD in Religious Studies (Cultural History of Orthodox Christianity) at the University of Erfurt end of 2011, with the title The Challenges of Modernity to the Orthodox Church in Estonia and Latvia (1917-1940). He currently holds a Post-Doc teaching position at the University of Erfurt with a project on Orthodox Christianity in Minority Contexts.

For the pre-assigned reading material and to participate in this event, please RSVP to the  Center for Religious Studies at religion@ceu.hu

 

Bibiliography:

s.a. (2001), “Territorial Jurisdiction According to Orthodox Canon Law”

Lewis Patsavos (c. 1975), “The Theological Basis for the Church’s Law”

Bishop Hilarion Alfeyev (2006), “One City, One Bishop, One Church - I”

Grigorios D. Papathomas (2008), “In the age of Post-Ecclesiality”