Open AccessChurch and people's power: UGCC approach to defining democracy criteria
Author(s) -
Volodymyr Moroz
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
ukraïnsʹke relìgìêznavstvo
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2617-9792
pISSN - 2306-3548
DOI - 10.32420/2013.66.280
Subject(s) - democracy , institution , power (physics) , value (mathematics) , order (exchange) , sociology , incentive , position (finance) , character (mathematics) , law , political science , social order , politics , business , physics , finance , quantum mechanics , machine learning , computer science , economics , microeconomics , geometry , mathematics
By sanctifying the rights and responsibilities of man as authorized by God, emphasizing the ontological justification for ensuring freedom of choice, the value of each person and its social character, the Catholic Church, including the UGCC, could not but express its position on specific forms of social order. The Second Vatican Council gave a significant incentive for the development of theological thought in this direction and for the implementation of its constructions into public practice. Since the Church is an institution to which, according to the results of sociological research, Ukrainians have been most trusted for many years, and the UGCC is one of the most active Churches in Ukraine, the study of its attitude towards democracy is one of the topical scientific topics.