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The Mystical as Political (Hardcover)
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The Mystical as Political (Hardcover)
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Theosis, or the principle of divine-human communion, sparks the
theological imagination of Orthodox Christians and has been
historically important to questions of political theology. In The
Mystical as Political: Democracy and Non-Radical Orthodoxy,
Aristotle Papanikolaou argues that a political theology grounded in
the principle of divine-human communion must be one that
unequivocally endorses a political community that is democratic in
a way that structures itself around the modern liberal principles
of freedom of religion, the protection of human rights, and
church-state separation. Papanikolaou hopes to forge a non-radical
Orthodox political theology that extends beyond a reflexive
opposition to the West and a nostalgic return to a Byzantine-like
unified political-religious culture. His exploration is prompted by
two trends: the fall of communism in traditionally Orthodox
countries has revealed an unpreparedness on the part of Orthodox
Christianity to address the question of political theology in a way
that is consistent with its core axiom of theosis; and recent
Christian political theology, some of it evoking the notion of
"deification," has been critical of liberal democracy, implying a
mutual incompatibility between a Christian worldview and that of
modern liberal democracy. The first comprehensive treatment from an
Orthodox theological perspective of the issue of the compatibility
between Orthodoxy and liberal democracy, Papanikolaou's is an
affirmation that Orthodox support for liberal forms of democracy is
justified within the framework of Orthodox understandings of God
and the human person. His overtly theological approach shows that
the basic principles of liberal democracy are not tied exclusively
to the language and categories of Enlightenment philosophy and, so,
are not inherently secular.
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