Gratitude Political Thought Christianism Orthodoxy
Issue Date:
29-Dec-2022
Publisher:
Institute of Mathematics and Informatics – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Citation:
Telarico, F. (2022). The West Reads the South-East: (in)Gratitude in Catholic and Orthodox Political Theologies, INIS Series, 2022, Special Edition, ISSN 2815-4231, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 164-181.
Series/Report no.:
INIS Series, 2022, Special Edition;10
Abstract:
This paper deals with the role of gratitudue in Catholicism’s political theology in search for an equivalent in the power relations involving the Bulgarian and Serbian Orthodox Churches through the cults of Ivan Rilski and the canonised monk Sava. To do so, it analyses Medieval West Europe’s theology of gratitude starting from Marsilius of Padua’s Defensor Pacis (1324). The text concludes that Marsilius’s criticism have little pertinence to South-East Europe for both theological and political reason, paving the way to a better mutual understanding of Eastern and Western European histories and culture.
