Table of Contents

Introduction: Outrunning Constantine's Shadow Aristotle Papanikolaou and George E. Demacopoulos The Post-Communist Situation Moral Argument in the Human Rights Debate of the Russian Orthodox Church Kristina Stoeckl Post-Communist Orthodox Countries and Secularization: The Lausti Case and the Fracture of Europe Pascal H?mmerli Political Theologies: Protestant-Catholic-Orthodox Conversations Power to the People: Orthodoxy, Consociational Democracy, and the Move beyond Phyletism Luke Bretherton Power, Protest, and Perichoresis: On Being Church in a Troubled World Mary Doak Strange Fruit: Augustine, Liberalism, and the Good Samaritan Eric Gregory An Orthodox Encounter with Liberal Democracy Emmanuel Clapsis Democracy and the Dynamics of Death: Orthodox Reflections on the Origin, Purpose, and Limits of Politics Perry T. Hamalis "I Have Overcome the World": The Church, the Liberal State, and Christ's Two Natures in the Russian Politics of Theosis Nathaniel Wood Constantine's Shadow: Historical Perspectives Emperors and Bishops of Constantinople (324-431) Timothy D. Barnes Disowning Constantinian Christianity Peter Iver Kaufman "You Cannot have a Church without an Empire": Political Orthodoxy in Byzantium James Skedros Roman Catholicism and Democracy: The Post-conciliar Era Brian Hehir An Apophatic Approach How (Not) to be a Political Theologian Stanley Hauerwas List of Contributors Index