[Lecture] Thomas Mark Németh, “Ukraine´s Churches at War. Challenges for Society and Christianity”
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Russia´s war against Ukraine has important implications for the churches and religious communities there, for their relationship with each other and for global Orthodoxy. The lecture provides an overview of the religious landscape in Ukraine and focuses in particular on the country’s two Orthodox jurisdictions and their relationship to the state and society. Aspects of peace ethics, the role of church actors and the influence of historical and ideological factors are discussed. What could be a constructive role of churches and academic theology?
Thomas Mark Németh is professor of Eastern Christian Studies at the Faculty of Catholic Theology of the University of Vienna, Austria (since 2019) and a priest of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. From 2005 to 2019 he worked at the University of Würzburg, Germany, and the Institute for Eastern Christian Studies (Ostkirchliches Institut) there. His research interests include the history of Eastern Churches in Central and Eastern Europe, churches in Ukraine as well as Eastern Catholic theology and canon law. He is Consultor of the foundation Pro Oriente, a member of its Steering Committee for Orthodox-Catholic Dialogue, and co-chair of Orthodox-Eastern Catholic Dialogue Group (OEC).