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A History of Orthodox, Islamic, and Western Christian Political Values Conclusion

A History of Orthodox, Islamic, and Western Christian Political Values : Conclusion CHAPTER 9 I want education for the sons and the daughters of all the extremists especially the Taliban. Malala Yousafzai, United Nations, 12 July 2013 Attempts to justify criminal acts with religious slogans are altogether unacceptable. No crime may be committed in God’s name, “since God is not the God of disorder but of peace” (1 Cor 14:33). Patriarch Kirill I and Pope Francis I, Havana, Cuba, 12 February A study of the past 2000 years reveals that religion is critically important in international affairs, not just historically, which is generally recognized, but in contemporary times, which is not acknowledged. It further shows that Orthodoxy, Islam, and Western Christianity, alone among the world’s major religions and sacred moral traditions, strove for universal fellowship and generated religio-political values to effect global fellowship, and thus were the principal historical catalyst for what is now widely recognized as globalization—the condition of global interdependency that marks the modern world and is yielding a global civilization. It additionally demon- strates that these value systems, while they shared and interacted, competed with one another to defi ne the ideas and institutions of this burgeoning global civilization. Finally, it concludes that the most signifi cant develop- http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A History of Orthodox, Islamic, and Western Christian Political Values Conclusion

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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
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978-3-319-32566-8
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209 –217
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CHAPTER 9 I want education for the sons and the daughters of all the extremists especially the Taliban. Malala Yousafzai, United Nations, 12 July 2013 Attempts to justify criminal acts with religious slogans are altogether unacceptable. No crime may be committed in God’s name, “since God is not the God of disorder but of peace” (1 Cor 14:33). Patriarch Kirill I and Pope Francis I, Havana, Cuba, 12 February A study of the past 2000 years reveals that religion is critically important in international affairs, not just historically, which is generally recognized, but in contemporary times, which is not acknowledged. It further shows that Orthodoxy, Islam, and Western Christianity, alone among the world’s major religions and sacred moral traditions, strove for universal fellowship and generated religio-political values to effect global fellowship, and thus were the principal historical catalyst for what is now widely recognized as globalization—the condition of global interdependency that marks the modern world and is yielding a global civilization. It additionally demon- strates that these value systems, while they shared and interacted, competed with one another to defi ne the ideas and institutions of this burgeoning global civilization. Finally, it concludes that the most signifi cant develop-

Published: Sep 14, 2016

Keywords: World History; Religious Authority; World Religion; Global Civilization; Islamic State

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