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| | Living at the Borders: Eastern Orthodoxy and World Disorder (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | Barely disguising their contempt, they wonder at Ukrainians who can spend hours droning psalms in church while their economy is in a state of collapse, or, even more persistently, profess a horrified puzzlement at peoples, as in former Yugoslavia, who can rape and murder in the name of faith. |
 | | Historically, Eastern Orthodoxy has conceived of ecclesiality, of eklesia itself, as being to some degree a function of ethnicity and nationhood. |
 | | To be sure, Orthodoxy has used the term "phyletism" to describe the virtual equation of church with ethnicity and has condemned phyletism as heresy. |
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