Open AccessChurch and Politics in Ukraine: Relationship Issues
Author(s) -
Valeriy Klymov
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
ukraïnsʹke relìgìêznavstvo
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2617-9792
pISSN - 2306-3548
DOI - 10.32420/2008.46.1919
Subject(s) - politics , state (computer science) , field (mathematics) , resource (disambiguation) , political science , political process , political economy , political history , sociology , law , mathematics , algorithm , computer science , pure mathematics , computer network
An unbiased analysis of the history of the coexistence of church institutions and politics in any state shows that the chronicle of such coexistence appears, in large part, as a history of attempts to use, with greater or lesser success, on the one hand, by church political structures, and on the other, by the church of political structures, or politicians. The history of these interconnected relationships goes back to the times when both institutions in the process of their formation and development began to represent a certain socially influential force, a real and potential resource which could be used to solve operational and strategic political or religious-church problems in any which field of social life (political, economic, social, spiritual, legal, national, military, etc.).