Relations between ecclesiastical and secular authority

Fyodor Afanasyevich Kurganov is an outstanding Russian scientist, Dr. Theology, professor of the Imperial Kazan Academy of Sciences Academy, Historian of the Church and Canonical Law. "Relationship between church and civil authorities in the Byzantine Empire in the Epoch of Education and the final establishment of these relationships (325-565)" - Doctoral dissertation F.A. Kurganova, the main work of his life. On a huge historical material (from the era of Konstantin the Great to Justinian, the Great, the time of the first five Ecumenical cathedrals), with the involvement of the extensive material of secular laws and church canons and decisions, the topic of the relationship of the state and the Church relevant and relevant to this day is revealed. The paper is given both the theoretical justifications of various types of such relationships and numerous practical examples from the life of the Byzantine Church. F.A. Kurganov shows the formation of the "Byzantine model of the relationship between the state and the church, reveals its deep meaning. It was the "Byzantine model it became the fundamental for the Russian Orthodox Church almost all through its historical life.
For all interested history of the ancient Church and Orthodox theology