What Is God’s and What Is Caesar’s? Autocephaly, Schism and the Clash of Political Theologies in Ukrainian Orthodoxy

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ID12663072
AuthorsDenys Shestopalets (0000-0002-3365-3329, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume23
Issue5
Pages434-453
Publication date2021-05-24
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenuePolitical Theology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1462-317X • E-ISSN: 1743-1719
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/1462317x.2021.1925439
OpenAlexW3163977951
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited7

The article offers a general overview of the conflicting political theologies developed by rivaling churches and religious movements in Ukrainian Orthodoxy with the view to protecting their ideological agendas and institutional interests under different socio-political circumstances. It explores the dynamics of politicization and depoliticization of autocephaly and the perspectives on the proper church-state relations in the works of the key representatives of Ukrainian autocephalism in the first half of the 20th c. Based on this, the study analyses how these theological frameworks were further interpreted and employed in the post-Soviet period in the discourses of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate and its successor the Orthodox Church of Ukraine. Finally, the article outlines an alternative political theology of autocephaly advanced by the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate in order to justify its unity with the Russian Orthodox Church despite the proclamation of Ukrainian independence in 1991

Ecumenism · Ideology · Orthodoxy · Political science · Politics · Proclamation · Schism · Sociology · State (computer science · Theology · Ukrainian · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · European Politics and Security · Law · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religious studies · Religious Studies

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