The Relationship Between Protestantism and the Orthodox Church

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As a journalist, observe this into more, you know, sort of less democratic, more authoritarian, more sort of stolid if you like societies as you go East. I think these are much more traditional societies in many cases. And that doesn't have much to do with whether it's Catholic or Orthodox versions of Christianity. So there are various ways in which scholars have argued for that relationship and what the cause might be but no one has really nailed it yet.

When it comes to the development of Western Europe there was religion and then there was science. That is how the story is generally told but Anna Gryzmala Busse believes that modern Europe owes more to the religious part of that than is generally appreciated. She has written Sacred Foundations: The Religious and Medieval Roots of the European State (Princeton UP, 2023) and talks to Owen Bennett Jones about religion and the European state.

Owen Bennett-Jones is a freelance journalist and writer. A former BBC correspondent and presenter he has been a resident foreign correspondent in Bucharest, Geneva, Islamabad, Hanoi and Beirut. He is recently wrote a history of the Bhutto dynasty which was published by Yale University Press.

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