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Questions perhaps more important and subtle than given credit for to the extent studied:
1. Have the Eastern Orthodox ever chosen to initiate a religious war?
2. Have the Eastern Orthodox ever fought a specifically religious *war* with other Christians?
1. Have the Eastern Orthodox ever chosen to initiate a religious war?
2. Have the Eastern Orthodox ever fought a specifically religious *war* with other Christians?
In the interest of not hiding the football... I have alleged that the western way of war is religious (including of course the Muslim “world” in the West). If EO history seems not to accord so well with this rule or theme, may be important to consider, theologically, why...
And then there’s this... all caveats and complexities considered, if Russia is nevertheless and above all a geo-theologically unique major digital power with a civilization-state operating system that rejects wars of religion, that, too, is quite significant
One more point. Russian Christianity is felt in the contemporary West (if felt at all) to be very OLD and distorted or irrelevant in its oldness. Yet in Europe the Russians were converted later than just about everyone but the Vikings (whose Christianity is now all but extinct)..
So is it right that Russia turns out to be not only the Western civilization (and state) with the FRESHEST experience of Christianization and of a still-lived sacramental Christianity, but the one civilization (and state) of any kind with such experience? Seems important if so
