ECCLESIASTICAL EVENT, RELIGION AND POWER. SOME OBSERVATIONS ON AGAINST RELIGION BY CH. YANNARAS
ECCLESIASTICAL EVENT, RELIGION AND POWER. SOME OBSERVATIONS ON AGAINST RELIGION BY CH. YANNARAS

Summary/Abstract: In this paper I'm proposing to analyse the relation between religious phenomenon and power, starting from the distinction between ecclesiastical event and religion proposed by Christos Yannaras, in his work, Against religion. By emphasizing the intimate link that exists between the origins of the religious phenomenon and power, I tried to show that religion is, in a certain way, inseparable from the phenomenon of power, both of them presenting positive and negative aspects. The submission of the religious phenomenon to the dimension of power can change it into ideology. I also tried also to criticize Yannaras's attempt to purify the early Christianity from the dimension of power and to present it in the pure form of ecclesiastical event. In this regard, Yannaras's approach is similar to that of Marcion, one of the first great heretic of Christianity.

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