International Conference
Two Cities in One Church. Orthodoxy in formatting socio-political contexts in Ukraine and Russia
12.-14. November 2014
The topic of the academic event is focused on today’s situation
of the Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate. The two
most populated states of the post-soviet space – Russia and
Ukraine – belong to the canonical territory of the Russian
Orthodox Church. Having a lot in common in their culture and
history, the two countries seem to choose different ways
of geopolitical orientation. The tensions between Ukraine
and Russia increased recently.
The title «Two Cities in One Church» takes up the famous
idea of St. Augustine († 430) about two cities. The City of God and the Earthly City coexist in the human history and cannot
be clearly identified until the end of the World. The actual
situation of the Russian Orthodox Church represents the paradoxical coexistence of two political bodies in the same Church,
facing all the ambiguities of the current crisis in a quite different way. In order to discuss the problem, the conference
will bring together four groups of theologians, publicists and
other thinkers from Western Europe, Russia, Ukraine and
Georgia. The event offers a unique opportunity to discuss
topics which are relevant to the future of the whole world.
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