Round Table and Book Launch: “Du combat pour la ‘juste foi’ au péché politique”

Both liturgically and canonically, the Synodikon of Orthodoxy is a text of seminal importance in the Eastern Christianity. Recited on the first Sunday of Great Lent (also called “Sunday of Orthodoxy” or “Sunday of the Triumph of Orthodoxy”) to celebrate the victory over iconoclasm (843), it has gradually become a pillar of the “right faith” and of the fight against all heresies. Therefore, the Synodikon can be seen as a yardstick of the theological and political developments, tensions and disputes in the Orthodox world. Authored by Radu G. Păun and Ivan Biliarsky, two specialists in early modern history of religion, and published as the fourth volume in the Schriften zur Balkanforschung series, Du combat pour la « juste foi » au péché politique. Pour une histoire du Synodikon de l’Orthodoxie examines the relationship between text and ritual, the challenges of liturgical commemoration, and the ways in which “right faith” and “sin” are used as political arguments in the Hellenic, South Slavic, Muscovite and Romanian worlds. In addition to the two authors, Vera G. Tchentsova, Bernard Heyberger and Vasilios N. Makrides, three leading experts in the history of the Eastern Church, join the round table discussion on the occasion of the book launch.