Abstract

Symphony as a legal concept was formulated in Late Antiquity by Justinian I, a famous Byzantine Emperor, in his Novella 6 of 535 C.E., and it is readily utilized by the post-Soviet Russian Orthodox Church as the model of ideal church-state relations even at present. The question we ask in this article is if this model, in the manner it was laid down in the policy documents of the Russian Orthodox Church, is compatible (and, if so, to what extend) with the principle of the rule of secular law. This problem will be analyzed in the present paper on the example of the Church’s attitude toward the constitutional principle of secularity and separation of state and church. In Russia, this principle from Article 14 of the Constitution in fact collides with the church-supported tradition of their “harmonious cooperation” which is called “symphony of powers.”

中文翻译：

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交响乐的多样性与俄罗斯的国教关系

摘要

交响乐作为法律概念在上古晚期由著名的拜占庭皇帝查士丁尼一世在535年的中篇小说中提出，并被后苏联的俄罗斯东正教教会轻易地用作理想的教会国家关系的典范目前。我们在本文中提出的问题是，这种模式是否按照俄罗斯东正教教堂的政策文件中规定的方式与世俗法治原则兼容（如果可以的话，还可以扩展到什么范围） 。本文将以教会对待世俗的宪法原则以及国家与教会分离的态度为例来分析这个问题。在俄罗斯，宪法第14条中的这一原则实际上与教会支持的“和谐合作”传统相冲突，这种传统被称为“权力交往”。