The Orthodox Preference for Democracy: An American Response to “The Church in the Public Square” (Section II),in For the Life of the World: Toward a Social Ethos of the Orthodox Church

Abstract

In For the Life of the World: Toward a Social Ethos of the Orthodox Church, there is a clear preference for the “democratic genius of the modern age.” This preference for democracy is due, in part, to the long experience of the Orthodox Church with other governmental forms, especially autocratic and authoritarian states.