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© 2020, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co. KG, Göttingen ISBN Print: 9783847111658 – ISBN E-Lib: 9783737011655 EcumenicalThrone”10.Ultimately, the interventionof theEP’swas triggeredby theAppealof theUkrainianParliamentonthe16th June2016to theEcumenical PatriarchtograntAutocephaly to theOrthodoxChurch inUkraine.11 3. Theological andethical reflectionsonReconciliation. Twopossibleproposals Reconciliation is doubtlessly one of themost important concepts inChristian theology, because it concerns the status of the relationship betweenGod and humanity aswell as thatof humanbeingswith eachother. In theBiblicalwrit- ings,reconciliationcarriesanimportantfunction.Itdescribesthere-established communion between God and human beings through the salvific actions of Christ.Afterabriefbiblicalanalysis,reconciliationwillbetackledinthedifficult contextofnationalism. Theaimofthissectionistoshowthatthenationalistic ideologycollideswith the Biblical tradition of reconciliation, which is – as previously mentioned – supra-national, even cosmic, as well asmutually related to other people. The nationalism–especiallywhen it ispartofanecclesial agenda–suppressesand impedesareconciliationprocess,which isacrucial exercise inChristianity. 3.1. Thebiblical traditions IntheOldTestament(OT), reconciliationisusuallyexpressedthroughtheterm kprpiel (“to atone”, “to reconcile”) and refers primarily to the restaurationof humancommunionwithGod,asaresultofsinsbeingforgivenbyGod.Leviticus 10 Cf.PressOfficeoftheEcumenicalPatriarchate,EcumenicalPatriarchBartholomew:“Asthe MotherChurch,itisreasonabletodesiretherestorationofunityforthedividedecclesiastical body in Ukraine” (06/02 2018), see: https://www.patriarchate.org/-/oikoumenikos-pa triarches-einai-logikon-na-epithymomen-os-meter-ekklesia-ten-apokatastasin-tes-enote tos-tou-en-oukrania-dieremenou-ekklesiastikou-somat (accessedon8th January2019); See also:JohnChryssavgis,PastoralPerspectivesoftheUkrainianAutocephaly:APersonalFace toaPoliticalIssue,in:EvagelosSotiropoulos(ed.),TheEcumenicalPatriarchateandUkraine Autocephaly: Historical, Canonical, and Pastoral Perspectives, eBook 2019, pp.11–16. Of course,thereareothersimilarperspectivesthatareconsideringfirstpoliticalreasonsforthe EP’s intervention intheUkraine. 11 TheAppealoftheNationalParliamenttotheEPtograntAutocephalyistraditionallythefirst step inthisprocess. See:UkrainianParliament,ResolutionontheAppealof theVerkhovna RadaofUkrainetotheAll-HolyBartholomew,ArchbishopofConstantinopleandNewRome, Ecumenical Patriarch to provide Autocephaly to the Orthodox Church in Ukraine (in Ukrainian), see: http://w1.c1.rada.gov.ua/pls/zweb2/webproc4_1?pf3511=59348 (accessed onJanuary28th2019). CezarMarksteiner-Ungureanu188 Open-Access-Publikation im Sinne der CC-Lizenz BY 4.0