Lexington Books / Fortress Academic
Pages: 154
Trim: 6¼ x 9½
978-1-9787-1536-3 • Hardback • March 2024 • $95.00 • (£73.00)
978-1-9787-1537-0 • eBook • March 2024 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
Davor Džalto is professor in religion and democracy at University College Stockholm.
1. Good News! The Son of David is Crucified! Anarchic Dimensions of the Messianic Language in the Gospel of Mark Veljko Birač
2. “Not by Violence and Tyrannical Domination”: Apophatic Political Theology in Gregory of Nyssa Johannes A. Steenbuch
3. Love and Annihilation: Becoming Human in the Thought of St Maximus the Confessor and Lessons from Contemporary Anarchism E. Brown Dewhurst
4. Holy Foolishness as a Form of Anarchism Per-Arne Bodin
5. Anarchism and Orthodoxy in Latin America Graham McGeoch
6. Anarchy and Hierarchy: The (Non-Oppressive) Holy and the Question of “Spiritual Aristocracy” Davor Džalto
Although the scholarship on Christian anarchism includes an already wide diversity of contributions, Orthodoxy has generally been under-represented in it. This important volume helps redress that gap. With chapters on content ranging from Gregory of Nyssa, St Maximus the Confessor and Holy Foolishness to ‘Spiritual Aristocracy’, the Gospel of Mark and Orthodox and Anarchism in Latin America, this book illustrates how fruitful a research area this can be, further enriching the growing scholarship on religion and anarchism.
— Alexandre Christoyannopoulos, author of Christian Anarchism (2010) and co-editor of three volumes of Essays in Anarchism and Religion (2017-2020)
This book provides another way of thinking about how Orthodox Christianity and the principles of freedom and equality for all are not mutually exclusive. Given the current state of the world, including the Russian attack on Ukraine, such creative proposals are needed now more than ever. Provocative, insightful, traditional—a must read.
— Aristotle Papanikolaou, Archbishop Demetrios Chair in Orthodox Theology and Culture, Fordham University; co-founding director, Orthodox Christian Studies Center