When one claims to represent the Eastern Orthodox tradition, this implies that one is following a specific set of hermeneutical presuppositions of the common tradition. All Christian traditions share the same basic sources in the first millennium, so the definition of a theology as “Orthodox” is necessarily related to a specific point of view, to[…..]
Section: East Meets West
Latin American Liberation Theology and Eastern Orthodox Social Ethics
How should Christians respond to situations of poverty and social injustice? Proponents of Latin American liberation theology and teachers of Eastern Orthodoxy typically frame their answers in very different ways.
On the Righteousness of Rights
Some years ago I was teaching a continuing education course at Providence College on the history of Christian responses to poverty. A fresh-hatched PhD, I could reflect at length on the early Church and a small collection of Cappadocian sermons. But when it came to subject matter after, say, the sixth century, I was at[…..]