Via Tertia for the Orthodox Churches
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12838804 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Cyril Hovorun (0000-0002-7927-6995, University College Stockholm, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 336-354 |
| Publication date | 2020-10-14 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Public Theology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1569-7320 • E-ISSN: 1872-5171 |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/15697320-12341623 |
| OpenAlex | W3093870524 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Since its national awakening in the middle of the nineteenth century, the Ukrainian people have had two options for development: to pursue the modernist program of nation-building or to submit itself to the imperial projects that first the Russian and Austro-Hungarian empires, then the Soviet Union, and lastly Vladimir Putin were trying to build. The Ukrainian Maidans of 2004 and 2013–14 indicated a third way, a via tertia : to developing a civil society based on civil values, such as transparency, justice, and solidarity. This third option is a way towards modernization. The Ukrainian churches found themselves at the crossroads facing the same choices—the modernist, imperialist, or civil. A public theology that advocates for a ‘symphony’ with civil society, instead of a traditional symphonic relationship with the state, suggests a way for the churches: it would make them coherent with the social developments in the country
Civil society · Economic Justice · Modernization theory · Political economy · Political science · Sociology · Solidarity · State (computer science · Symphony · Ukrainian · History · Law · Religion and Society Interactions
| Citations per year | 0.4 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2022 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |