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Inga Leonova speaks with Jim Forest, Conversion Not Domination

by Inga Leonova, Jim Forest

The Just War theory emerged in Western Christianity and never became rooted in Eastern Christianity. Instead, in the East, there is a relatively undeveloped theology that war is sometimes forced on a nation under attack, but is only justified to the extent that the nation is defending itself from invasion.

Inga Leonova

A practicing architect, writer, and educator. She is the author of several publications on Orthodoxy and culture, including liturgical architecture and contemporary social issues. Her essay “The Quest for American Architecture: Modernism Meets Tradition” was included in the book Sacred Architecture in East and West edited by Cyril Hovorun (Marymount Institute Press, 2019).

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Jim Forest

Jim Forest was the international secretary of the Orthodox Peace Fellowship. His books included ~Praying with Icons~, ~Ladder of the Beatitudes~, ~Confession: Doorway to Forgiveness~, and ~The Road to Emmaus: Pilgrimage as a Way of Life~. His autobiography, ~Writing Straight With Crooked Lines~, was published by Orbis Books in 2020.

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