The Public Role of the Church in Contemporary Ukrainian Society

1 - Cover [Seite 1]
2 - General Introduction [Seite 18]
2.1 - Why reconciliation? Background of the problem [Seite 18]
2.2 - General characteristics of the analysed documents of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church [Seite 25]
2.3 - The choice of the reference authors [Seite 30]
2.3.1 - Catholic approach of Robert Schreiter: spirituality of reconciliation [Seite 31]
2.3.2 - Evangelical approach of Miroslav Volf: radical forgiveness [Seite 33]
2.3.3 - Practice-oriented approach of John Paul Lederach: building communities of change [Seite 34]
2.4 - Research questions and content [Seite 35]
2.5 - A note on transliteration [Seite 37]
3 - Chapter I. Religious context of Ukrainian society today - the background to research [Seite 38]
3.1 - Introduction [Seite 38]
3.2 - 1.1 Religious pluralism in Ukraine [Seite 39]
3.3 - 1.2 Religiosity of Ukrainians [Seite 46]
3.4 - 1.3 Religious revival and the traditional Ukrainian Churches [Seite 51]
3.4.1 - 1.3.1 Traditional Orthodox denominations [Seite 53]
3.4.1.1 - 1.3.1.1 The Ukrainian Orthodox Church [Seite 53]
3.4.1.1.1 - In the shadow of the Moscow Patriarchate [Seite 53]
3.4.1.1.2 - Vectors of confrontations [Seite 55]
3.4.1.2 - 1.3.1.2 The Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church [Seite 60]
3.4.1.2.1 - At the rampart of Orthodox autocephaly in Ukraine [Seite 60]
3.4.1.2.2 - Vectors of confrontations [Seite 61]
3.4.1.3 - 1.3.1.3 The Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate [Seite 64]
3.4.1.3.1 - On the way to a national Church [Seite 64]
3.4.1.3.2 - Vectors of confrontations [Seite 66]
3.4.2 - 1.3.2 Traditional Catholic denominations [Seite 70]
3.4.2.1 - 1.3.2.1 The Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church [Seite 70]
3.4.2.1.1 - Survival in the Soviet underground [Seite 70]
3.4.2.1.2 - Vectors of confrontations [Seite 72]
3.4.2.2 - 1.3.2.2 The Roman-Catholic Church [Seite 78]
3.5 - 1.4 The interconfessional conflict in Ukraine as a conflict of identities [Seite 79]
3.5.1 - 1.4.1 The issues of the self-identity of the Churches [Seite 81]
3.5.1.1 - 1.4.1.1 Identity and Orthodox denominations [Seite 81]
3.5.1.2 - 1.4.1.2 The doctrine of the Russkiy Mir [Seite 86]
3.5.1.3 - 1.4.1.3 Identity and the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church [Seite 91]
3.5.2 - 1.4.2 Identity, nationalism, Churches [Seite 92]
3.6 - 1.5 Ukrainian post-atheism [Seite 96]
3.6.1 - 1.5.1 Typical features of Ukrainian post-atheism [Seite 96]
3.6.2 - 1.5.2 Church and state in Ukraine [Seite 97]
3.6.2.1 - 1.5.2.1 Legal basis [Seite 97]
3.6.2.2 - 1.5.2.2 Intrusion of the state [Seite 98]
3.6.2.3 - 1.5.2.3 Cooperative attitude of the Churches [Seite 101]
3.6.2.4 - 1.5.2.4 The idea of a national (state) Church in Ukraine [Seite 106]
3.7 - 1.6 The role of the media in the interconfessional conflicts [Seite 110]
3.8 - Conclusion [Seite 115]
4 - Part I. The essence and challenges of reconciliation [Seite 120]
4.1 - Introduction to Part I [Seite 120]
4.2 - Chapter II. Who are victims? Who is guilty? Moral diagnosis of the Ukrainian past [Seite 121]
4.2.1 - 2.1 Poland and Ukraine - neighbours in peace? [Seite 121]
4.2.1.1 - 2.1.1 Together but still separated [Seite 121]
4.2.1.2 - 2.1.2 Historically embedded conflicts and the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church [Seite 126]
4.2.1.2.1 - Conflicts on the Cemetery of the Lviv Eaglets [Seite 127]
4.2.1.2.2 - The Volyn tragedy [Seite 130]
4.2.1.2.3 - The Operation Vistula [Seite 136]
4.2.2 - 2.2 War has finished - war continues [Seite 139]
4.2.2.1 - 2.2.1 Plurality of war memories [Seite 139]
4.2.2.2 - 2.2.2 The Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church: reinterpreting the established image of war [Seite 143]
4.2.3 - 2.3 Divided Church - divided nation [Seite 146]
4.2.3.1 - The wound of division [Seite 147]
4.2.3.2 - The sin of pride [Seite 147]
4.2.3.3 - Intrusion of the state [Seite 148]
4.2.3.4 - The Union of Brest and the Church division [Seite 150]
4.2.3.5 - "No" to the Soviet methods of struggle [Seite 151]
4.2.4 - 2.4 Difficult northern neighbour [Seite 152]
4.2.4.1 - 2.4.1 Heavy load of historical burden [Seite 152]
4.2.4.1.1 - Contesting issues [Seite 152]
4.2.4.1.2 - Reconciliation between Ukraine and Russia [Seite 155]
4.2.4.1.3 - Legalisation and property conflicts [Seite 156]
4.2.4.1.4 - Moscow and the Lviv Pseudo-Synod [Seite 158]
4.2.4.1.5 - The Russian Orthodox Church as a victim [Seite 160]
4.2.4.1.6 - Current coexistence [Seite 163]
4.2.4.2 - 2.4.2 Reconciliation between nations through reconciliation between Churches? [Seite 164]
4.2.5 - 2.5 Struggle between two Ukraines [Seite 171]
4.2.5.1 - 2.5.1 History, identity, language [Seite 171]
4.2.5.1.1 - History and identity [Seite 171]
4.2.5.1.2 - The answer of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church [Seite 175]
4.2.5.1.3 - Language [Seite 178]
4.2.5.2 - 2.5.2 The trauma of the Holodomor [Seite 180]
4.3 - Chapter III. Understanding of reconciliation [Seite 185]
4.3.1 - 3.1 The Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church: reconciliation as the spiritual regeneration of the person [Seite 185]
4.3.1.1 - 3.1.1 John Paul II as the advocate of reconciliation in Ukraine [Seite 185]
4.3.1.2 - 3.1.2 The Greek-Catholic tradition of reconciliation [Seite 189]
4.3.1.3 - 3.1.3 The human heart - the locus of reconciliation [Seite 193]
4.3.1.3.1 - The heart as the core of the human person [Seite 193]
4.3.1.3.2 - Where the changes are born [Seite 195]
4.3.1.4 - 3.1.4 Reconciliation with the help of God [Seite 198]
4.3.1.5 - 3.1.5 Reconciliation as a Christian obligation [Seite 201]
4.3.1.6 - 3.1.6 Reconciliation as a spiritual testament and legacy of martyrs [Seite 203]
4.3.2 - 3.2 Robert Schreiter: reconciliation as a healing [Seite 207]
4.3.2.1 - 3.2.1 Horizontal and vertical dimensions of reconciliation [Seite 208]
4.3.2.2 - 3.2.2 Practical theology of reconciliation [Seite 211]
4.3.2.2.1 - Principle 1. "God is the author of reconciliation" [Seite 211]
4.3.2.2.2 - Principle 2. "God begins with victims" [Seite 212]
4.3.2.2.3 - Principle 3. "God makes of the victim and the wrongdoer a 'new creation" [Seite 212]
4.3.2.2.4 - Principle 4. Place the suffering of the victim in the story of the suffering of Christ [Seite 213]
4.3.2.2.5 - Principle 5. Eschatological completion of reconciliation [Seite 215]
4.3.2.3 - 3.2.3 "Reconciliation is more a spirituality than a strategy" [Seite 216]
4.3.2.4 - 3.2.4 Reconciliation as a metanoia [Seite 218]
4.3.3 - 3.3 Miroslav Volf: Reconciliation as embrace [Seite 219]
4.3.4 - 3.4 John Paul Lederach: reconciliation as the restoration of the fabric of community [Seite 223]
4.4 - Chapter IV. Elements of reconciliation [Seite 229]
4.4.1 - 4.1 On the demands for repentance [Seite 229]
4.4.1.1 - 4.1.1 The Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church: repentance as the individual conversion of the heart [Seite 229]
4.4.1.2 - 4.1.2 Miroslav Volf: "To repent of what perpetrators do to our soul" [Seite 232]
4.4.2 - 4.2 On the path to forgiveness [Seite 235]
4.4.2.1 - 4.2.1 The Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church: "We forgive and ask for forgiveness" [Seite 235]
4.4.2.1.1 - Forgiveness as a feature of martyrs [Seite 235]
4.4.2.1.2 - Asking forgiveness for negligence and indignation [Seite 236]
4.4.2.1.3 - Formula of mutual forgiveness [Seite 237]
4.4.2.1.4 - When Churches or nations ask forgiveness [Seite 238]
4.4.2.1.5 - Forgiveness as the obligation of love [Seite 240]
4.4.2.1.6 - Accepting forgiveness means recognising faults [Seite 241]
4.4.2.1.7 - Asking forgiveness as an act of paying honour [Seite 241]
4.4.2.1.8 - Asking forgiveness as a readiness to assume responsibility [Seite 242]
4.4.2.2 - 4.2.2 Miroslav Volf: the centrality of forgiveness [Seite 244]
4.4.2.2.1 - 4.2.2.1 Forgiveness as a gift and an obligation [Seite 244]
4.4.2.2.2 - 4.2.2.2 The dynamics of forgiveness [Seite 246]
4.4.2.2.3 - 4.2.2.3 Making space for the other [Seite 249]
4.4.2.3 - 4.2.3 Robert Schreiter: forgiveness as a grace to attend to the moral failures of the past [Seite 251]
4.4.3 - 4.3 On the challenges of justice [Seite 253]
4.4.3.1 - 4.3.1 The Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church: on the deficit of justice [Seite 253]
4.4.3.1.1 - Which justice? [Seite 253]
4.4.3.1.2 - Bringing about changes in Ukrainian society [Seite 258]
4.4.3.1.3 - Some incitements for discussion [Seite 264]
4.4.3.2 - 4.3.2 John Paul Lederach: conflicts originate from the lack of social justice [Seite 270]
4.4.3.3 - 4.3.3 Robert Schreiter: overcoming structural injustices - soothing social tensions - advancing reconciliation [Seite 271]
4.4.3.4 - 4.3.4 Miroslav Volf: genuine justice involves embrace [Seite 274]
4.5 - Conclusion to Part I [Seite 279]
5 - Part II. Memory and practical steps to reconciliation and Christian unity [Seite 282]
5.1 - Introduction to Part II [Seite 282]
5.2 - Chapter V. Healing of the burdened memory [Seite 284]
5.2.1 - 5.1 The Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church: on history and memory [Seite 284]
5.2.1.1 - 5.1.1 The duty to remember [Seite 284]
5.2.1.2 - 5.1.2 "Leave the past to God and. to historians" [Seite 287]
5.2.1.3 - 5.1.3 The purification of memory [Seite 290]
5.2.1.3.1 - The individual examination of the conscience [Seite 291]
5.2.1.3.2 - Learning the truth about the past [Seite 293]
5.2.1.3.3 - Drawing lessons from the past [Seite 295]
5.2.1.4 - 5.1.4 The healing of memory: main issues [Seite 297]
5.2.1.4.1 - 5.1.4.1 Polish-Ukrainian reconciliation [Seite 297]
5.2.1.4.1.1 - Reconciliation through prayer [Seite 297]
5.2.1.4.1.2 - What unites both nations [Seite 300]
5.2.1.4.1.3 - "The past through the prism of Christianity" [Seite 302]
5.2.1.4.2 - 5.1.4.2 Healing the memories of World War II [Seite 306]
5.2.1.4.2.1 - Teaching: redefining victory in moral terms [Seite 306]
5.2.1.4.2.2 - What others say [Seite 312]
5.2.1.4.2.3 - The actions [Seite 316]
5.2.1.4.3 - 5.1.4.3 Reconciliation with the Russian Orthodox Church [Seite 318]
5.2.1.4.3.1 - Recognition of historical faults [Seite 318]
5.2.1.4.3.2 - Destruction of Orthodox dioceses in western Ukraine [Seite 323]
5.2.1.4.3.3 - The struggle for the patriarchal status of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church [Seite 325]
5.2.1.4.3.4 - When will the Patriarchs meet? [Seite 328]
5.2.1.4.4 - 5.1.4.4 The missing memory of Jews [Seite 332]
5.2.1.4.4.1 - Tony Judt. Why the memory of Jews is absent in Ukraine: the point of view of a historian [Seite 332]
5.2.1.4.4.2 - Omer Bartov. The guilt of Ukrainians from the point of view of a Jew [Seite 337]
5.2.1.4.4.3 - Myroslav Marynovych. Jewish-Ukrainian reconciliation from the point of view of a Greek-Catholic [Seite 340]
5.2.1.4.4.4 - The controversy on Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytskyi [Seite 345]
5.2.1.4.4.5 - The Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church on the Jewish-Ukrainian relations [Seite 351]
5.2.1.4.4.5.1 - The actions [Seite 351]
5.2.1.4.4.5.2 - The Church documents [Seite 352]
5.2.2 - 5.2 Robert Schreiter: on the moral truth of the past [Seite 357]
5.2.2.1 - 5.2.1 Social healing of memories [Seite 357]
5.2.2.2 - 5.2.2 Discovering the moral truth of the past [Seite 361]
5.2.3 - 5.3 Miroslav Volf: how to treat the burdened memory [Seite 363]
5.2.3.1 - 5.3.1 Rules of salutary remembering [Seite 363]
5.2.3.1.1 - 1. Remember with love [Seite 365]
5.2.3.1.2 - 2. Remember truthfully - fulfil the obligation of justice [Seite 365]
5.2.3.1.3 - 3. See with the eyes of the other - "double vision" [Seite 366]
5.2.3.1.4 - 4. Remember therapeutically - healing the identity [Seite 369]
5.2.3.1.5 - 5. Remember so as to learn from the past [Seite 370]
5.2.3.1.6 - 6. Remember in a redeeming way [Seite 371]
5.2.3.2 - 5.3.2 Slipping into oblivion [Seite 373]
5.3 - Chapter VI. On the value of spiritual unity or how to promote reconciliation [Seite 375]
5.3.1 - 6.1 The Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church: how spiritual unity may advance social transformation [Seite 375]
5.3.1.1 - 6.1.1 All-Ukrainian reconciliation for the transformation of the country [Seite 375]
5.3.1.2 - 6.1.2 Reconciliation between the Churches - spiritual unification of Ukraine [Seite 380]
5.3.1.2.1 - 6.1.2.1 The ecumenical significance of the Patriarchate of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church [Seite 382]
5.3.1.2.2 - 6.1.2.2 The united Kyivan Church [Seite 386]
5.3.1.2.2.1 - "Holiness of united people of God" [Seite 386]
5.3.1.2.2.2 - The inclusive Ukrainian/Kyivan Patriarchate [Seite 388]
5.3.1.2.2.3 - Not uniatism but communion [Seite 391]
5.3.1.2.2.4 - Practical project of communion [Seite 396]
5.3.1.2.2.5 - Unity in diversity [Seite 397]
5.3.1.2.3 - 6.1.2.3 Practical steps towards Church unity in Ukraine [Seite 399]
5.3.1.2.4 - 6.1.2.4 Unity of the Church - unity of the nation [Seite 403]
5.3.2 - 6.2 John Paul Lederach: on moral imagination or how to promote social changes [Seite 410]
5.3.2.1 - 6.2.1 The dynamics of moral imagination [Seite 410]
5.3.2.2 - 6.2.2 The value of relationships [Seite 412]
5.3.2.2.1 - 6.2.2.1 Feeling connected [Seite 412]
5.3.2.2.2 - 6.2.2.2 The qualities of web-making [Seite 417]
5.3.2.2.3 - 6.2.2.3 Language, narratives [Seite 419]
5.3.2.2.4 - 6.2.2.4 Building the platforms of cooperation [Seite 421]
5.3.2.3 - 6.2.3 The role of the Church in reconciliation: educate, empower, sanctify [Seite 423]
5.3.3 - 6.3 Robert Schreiter: how to reach reconciliation [Seite 427]
5.3.3.1 - 6.3.1 The dynamics of transition and challenges to reconciliation [Seite 427]
5.3.3.2 - 6.3.2 Rituals and sacraments in the service of reconciliation [Seite 429]
5.4 - Conclusion to Part II [Seite 432]
6 - General conclusion. The Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church's approach to reconciliation: The reappraisal [Seite 434]
6.1 - What is reconciliation needed for? [Seite 435]
6.2 - Present and missed dimensions of reconciliation [Seite 436]
6.3 - From words to strategy: develop and popularise [Seite 439]
6.4 - For ecumenism in practice: unity of diversities in common action [Seite 445]
7 - Bibliography [Seite 450]
7.1 - 1. Primary sources [Seite 450]
7.1.1 - 1.1 Chronological list of documents of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church [Seite 450]
7.1.2 - 1.2 John Paul Lederach [Seite 458]
7.1.3 - 1.3 Miroslav Volf [Seite 459]
7.1.4 - 1.4 Robert Schreiter [Seite 460]
7.2 - 2. Books [Seite 461]
7.3 - 3. Articles [Seite 467]
7.4 - 4. Electronic sources [Seite 474]
7.4.1 - 4.1 Sources on the Internet [Seite 474]
7.4.1.1 - 4.1.1 Ecclesial documents (in chronological order) [Seite 474]
7.4.1.2 - 4.1.2 Commentaries and articles of the Church hierarchs [Seite 480]
7.4.1.3 - 4.1.3 Articles [Seite 484]
7.4.1.4 - 4.1.4 Interviews [Seite 493]
7.4.1.5 - 4.1.5 News [Seite 496]
7.4.1.6 - 4.1.6 Other sources [Seite 498]
7.4.2 - 4.2 Other digital sources [Seite 500]
7.5 - 5. Unpublished works [Seite 501]