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Traditional, secular, and fundamentalist—all three categories are contested, yet in their contestation they shape our sensibilities and are mutually implicated, the one with the others. This interplay brings to the foreground more than ever the question of what it means to think and live as Tradition. The Orthodox theologians of the twentieth century, in particular, have emphasized Tradition not as a dead letter but as a living presence of the Holy Spirit. But how can we discern Tradition as living discernment from fundamentalism? What does it mean to live in Tradition when surrounded by something like the “secular”? These essays interrogate these mutual implications, beginning from the understanding that whatever secular or fundamentalist may mean, they are not Tradition, which is historical, particularistic, in motion, ambiguous and pluralistic, but simultaneously not relativistic.
Contributors: R. Scott Appleby, Nikolaos Asproulis, Brandon Gallaher, Paul J. Griffiths, Vigen Guroian, Dellas Oliver Herbel, Edith M. Humphrey, Slavica Jakelić, Nadieszda Kizenko, Wendy Mayer, Brenna Moore, Graham Ward, Darlene Fozard Weaver
Christian tradition eludes precise definitions and comprehensive formulations for the simple reason that it is a living thing, encompassing every dimension of spiritual life and aspiration. Religious fundamentalism emerges only when tradition has begun to die or has suffered assault. The secular age is a crisis for Christian communities not merely because it entails a cultural rejection of Christian tradition, but because it corrupts the tradition from within with the beguiling but deeply destructive “fundamentalist option.” The essays in this collection explore the crisis with rare depth and insight.---David Hart
Fundamentalism or Tradition is a valuable piece of scholarship, which has the potential to substantially contribute to the contemporary study of the phenomena of modernization and secularization, including various responses to those processes—notably the phenomenon of fundamentalism.---Davor Džalto, Sankt Ignatios Academy, Stockholm School of Theology
Aristotle Papanikolaou is Archbishop Demetrios Chair of Orthodox Theology and Culture and Professor of Theology at Fordham University.
George E. Demacopoulos (Edited By)
George E. Demacopoulos is Fr. John Meyendorff & Patterson Family Chair of Orthodox Christian Studies and Professor of Theology at Fordham University.
Introduction: Being as Tradition
Aristotle Papanikolaou and George E. Demacopoulos | 1
SECULARIZATION
Secularism: The Golden Lie
Graham Ward | 21
Collectivistic Christianities and Pluralism: An Inquiry into Agency and Responsibility
Slavica Jakelić | 36
What Difference Do Women Make? Retelling the Story of Catholic Responses to Secularism
Brenna Moore | 60
The Secular Pilgrimage of Orthodoxy in America
Vigen Guroian | 80
Saeculum–Ecclesia–Caliphate: An Eternal Golden Braid
Paul J. Griffiths | 94
A Secularism of the Royal Doors: Toward an Eastern Orthodox Christian Theology of Secularism
Brandon Gallaher | 108
FUNDAMENTALISM
Fundamentalism: Not Just a Cautionary Tale
Edith M. Humphrey | 133
Resolving the Tension between Tradition and Restorationism in American Orthodoxy
Dellas Oliver Herbel | 152
Fundamentalists, Rigorists, and Traditionalists: An Unorthodox Trinity
R. Scott Appleby | 165
“Orthodoxy or Death”: Religious Fundamentalism during the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries
Nikolaos Asproulis | 180
Confession and the Sacrament of Penance after Communism
Nadieszda Kizenko | 204
Conscience and Catholic Identity
Darlene Fozard Weaver | 223
Fundamentalism as a Preconscious Response to a Perceived Threat
Wendy Mayer | 241
Acknowledgments | 261
Contributors | 263
Index | 265