For the Life of the World: Toward a Social Ethos of the Orthodox Church is a social doctrine statement prepared by a commission of Orthodox scholars appointed by His All-Holiness, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople and chaired by Archdeacon John Chryssavgis. The team of scholars who collaborated on the document included David Bentley Hart, George Demacopoulos, Carrie Frederick Frost, Brandon Gallaher, Father Perry Hamalis, Father Nick Kazarian, Aristotle Papanikolaou, Jim Skedros, Gayle Woloschak, Konstantinos Delikostantis, and Theodoros Yiangou.