Reflections on a theory of law in the addresses of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I
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2024
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Babie, P.
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Ecclesiastical Law Journal: An international journal for the comparative study of law and religion, 2024; 26(3):317-321
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P T Babie
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Enlightenment values were a necessary adjunct to, although not solely responsible for, the Western legal tradition. This is because the Enlightenment produced a lens through which human relations could be viewed, and this perspective strongly influenced the invention of law in the West.1 Eastern Orthodoxy developed its own philosophical system without reference to Enlightenment values. The East's failure to engage with those values has resulted in a failure to find a common ‘language’ through which East and West can speak to one another. This inability to speak a common language places the Orthodox Church at a distinct disadvantage in its relations with the West, and has done for a very long time.
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