Eastern Orthodox theologians from around the world met in Greece last week to take up a problem that is plaguing this major branch of Christianity: the heresy of ethno-phyletism, the conflation of the Church with a nation or ethnic group. That is to say, Christian nationalism.
Nearly 400 Orthodox Christian theologians from 44 countries convened in the largest international conference of its kind in Greece on January 12 to discuss “Nicaea-sized” questions facing the Eastern Orthodox Church amid war and bitter division. Some of the most contentious issues at the Mega-Conference of the International Orthodox Theological Association, meeting in Volos,