Between Pacifism and Just War: Oikonomia and Eastern Orthodox Political Theology - Vassilios Paipais, 2024 Scholars have often focused on the doctrinal and canonical reasons for the lack of a just war tradition in the Eastern Orthodox Church. The consensus seems to b...

"There is, however, another reason why just war concerns never found fertile ground in Eastern Orthodoxy. Byzantine political theology carried an anarchistic theocratic dynamic that remained in tension with any effort to sanctify the Empire or its martyrs."

Yes, I feel the same.

It is also necessary to conduct a criminal probe of all the other images of God smashed in Gaza, people whom Christ said were his brothers and sisters. God doesn’t care about the symbolic violence but the real violence.

Giorgos Sikeliotis | The Last Supper

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"Little by little in the night takes shape / A strong light that will judge all men some day." — Jean Wahl, "Justice"

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It isn't enough for Christians to reassert the tenets of a just war doctrine, but rather--with Ben Salmon--we should reject even this in favour of an unsparing commitment to radical nonviolence and peace.

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