Audrey Shishkov Church Autocephaly Through the Lens of Carl Schmitt's Theory of Sovereignty Andrey Shishkov - Research Fellow of the Sst. Cyril and Methodius Post-Graduate Institute of the Russian Orthodox Church; Consultant of the Synodal Biblical and Theological Commission of the Russian Orthodox Church (Moscow, Russia), andrey.v.shishkov@gmail.com The article discusses the issue of the church autocephaly through the lens of the Carl Schmitt's theory of sovereignty. It starts from the premise that the concept of autocephaly is synonymous with sovereignty in the area of the inter-Orthodox relations. He uses Carl Schmitt's concept of sovereignty-as-exception as an analytical tool seeing proclamation of autocephaly by a local church as introducing a state of emergency (exception), from which, in turn, sovereignty is born. As an example, the article considers the history of the Russian autocephaly. The article also introduces the distinction between sovereignty and its limited version, which arises in situations when a mother-church grants autocephaly to her part. An alternative model is the Church of Constantinople's sovereignty derived from the "primacy of honour" in the Orthodox diptychs. In this respect, the article considers the prospective Pan-Orthodox Council as claiming the supreme authority in Eastern Orthodoxy. Keywords: autocephaly, Carl Schmitt, ecclesiology, Ecumenical Patriarchate, exception, inter-Orthodox relations, Pan-Orthodox Council, Russian Orthodox Church, sovereignty, state of emergency. Автокефалия и суверенитет: постановка проблемы В МАРТЕ 2014 года на совещании глав поместных православных церквей в Стамбуле было принято решение о проведении спустя два года всеправославного собора. Исто- стр. 197рия созыва собора насчитывает вот уже более до лет1. Начиная с 1923-го, а официально с 1961 года всеправославный предсоборный процесс является одним из главных аспектов межцерковных отношений2. Первой попыткой организации всеправославного форума для ре ... Читать далее