The Main Ideas of Davor Dzalto’s Political Theol¬ogy in the Context of Contemporary Orthodox Thought

Abstract

This article is the third author’s article on the political theology of Davor Dzal- to. It provides a comparative analysis of the key ideas of Dzalto’s political theology, which were left without consideration in previous articles. The first part of the article reveals sim­ilarities between Dzalto’s concept and the «mystical anarchism» of N. A. Berdyaev. In the second part, the author compares the concept of Jalto with the «sacred anarchy» of Atha­nasios N. Papathanasiou. The third part of the article is devoted to a comparison of Jalto’s ideas with the views of Pantelis Kalaitzidis. The next part reveals the similarities and dif­ferences between Dzalto’s «Christian anarchism» and E. Namli’s «open universalism». Next, the author analyzes the «politics of deification» of Aristotle Papanikolaou and answers the question whether Dzalto’s concept can be called «political Nestorianism»? As a result, the author comes to the conclusion that the approach proposed by Dzalto’s political theology makes it possible for theology to cease being an instrument of politics, and for the Church to move from the position of an object of politics to the position of a subject of politics, and at the same time to remain faithful to the Christian principles of freedom, love and peace.