Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Outrunning Constantine’s Shadow 1
4. The Post- Communist Situation
5. Moral Argument in the Human Rights Debate of the Russian Orthodox Church 11
6. Post- Communist Orthodox Countries and Secularization 31
7. Political Theologies: Protestant- Catholic- Orthodox Conversations
8. Power to the People 61
9. Power, Protest, and Perichoresis 78
10. Strange Fruit 98
11. An Orthodox Encounter with Liberal Democracy 111
12. Democracy and the Dynamics of Death 127
13. “I Have Overcome the World” 155
14. Constantine’s Shadow: Historical Perspectives
15. Emperors and Bishops of Constantinople (324–431) 175
16. Stepping Out of Constantine’s Shadow 202
17. “You Cannot Have a Church Without an Empire” 219
18. Roman Catholicism and Democracy: The Postconciliar Era 232
19. An Apophatic Approach
20. How (Not) to Be a Political Theologian 253
21. Contributors 275
22. Index 281