The Special Bishop of Caesar:
While criticism of the close relationship between the Russian Church
and state is (with good justification!) common, less attention is paid
to the fact that the Patriarchate of Constantinople exists and claims
primacy solely due to its relationship with now-extinct civil
authorities. But it is only this history that can explain much of
Constantinople’s modern-day behavior. There is, to put it bluntly, an
emperor-shaped (or, more accurately, a sultan-shaped) hole in
Constantinople’s heart that forces Ecumenical Patriarchs to court the
support of the most unexpected worldly powers, from Harry Truman in
Athenagoras’ day to Petro Poroshenko today. Writing in 1911, the English
Roman Catholic scholar Adrian Fortescue sketched the pathos of
Constantinople’s role as ‘the special bishop of Caesar’ with equal
erudition and acerbity:
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Roger Scruton: The Fury of the Modernists
It's not what you think it's about. But it's good, as is almost everything I have read by Sir Roger.
Read it here.
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