Cover -- General Introduction -- Why reconciliation? Background of the problem -- General characteristics of the analysed documents of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church -- The choice of the reference authors -- Catholic approach of Robert Schreiter: spirituality of reconciliation -- Evangelical approach of Miroslav Volf: radical forgiveness -- Practice-oriented approach of John Paul Lederach: building communities of change -- Research questions and content -- A note on transliteration -- Chapter I. Religious context of Ukrainian society today - the background to research -- Introduction -- 1.1 Religious pluralism in Ukraine -- 1.2 Religiosity of Ukrainians -- 1.3 Religious revival and the traditional Ukrainian Churches -- 1.3.1 Traditional Orthodox denominations -- 1.3.1.1 The Ukrainian Orthodox Church -- In the shadow of the Moscow Patriarchate -- Vectors of confrontations -- 1.3.1.2 The Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church -- At the rampart of Orthodox autocephaly in Ukraine -- Vectors of confrontations -- 1.3.1.3 The Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate -- On the way to a national Church -- Vectors of confrontations -- 1.3.2 Traditional Catholic denominations -- 1.3.2.1 The Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church -- Survival in the Soviet underground -- Vectors of confrontations -- 1.3.2.2 The Roman-Catholic Church -- 1.4 The interconfessional conflict in Ukraine as a conflict of identities -- 1.4.1 The issues of the self-identity of the Churches -- 1.4.1.1 Identity and Orthodox denominations -- 1.4.1.2 The doctrine of the Russkiy Mir -- 1.4.1.3 Identity and the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church -- 1.4.2 Identity, nationalism, Churches -- 1.5 Ukrainian post-atheism -- 1.5.1 Typical features of Ukrainian post-atheism -- 1.5.2 Church and state in Ukraine -- 1.5.2.1 Legal basis -- 1.5.2.2 Intrusion of the state.

1.5.2.3 Cooperative attitude of the Churches -- 1.5.2.4 The idea of a national (state) Church in Ukraine -- 1.6 The role of the media in the interconfessional conflicts -- Conclusion -- Part I. The essence and challenges of reconciliation -- Introduction to Part I -- Chapter II. Who are victims? Who is guilty? Moral diagnosis of the Ukrainian past -- 2.1 Poland and Ukraine - neighbours in peace? -- 2.1.1 Together but still separated -- 2.1.2 Historically embedded conflicts and the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church -- Conflicts on the Cemetery of the Lviv Eaglets -- The Volyn tragedy -- The Operation Vistula -- 2.2 War has finished - war continues -- 2.2.1 Plurality of war memories -- 2.2.2 The Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church: reinterpreting the established image of war -- 2.3 Divided Church - divided nation -- The wound of division -- The sin of pride -- Intrusion of the state -- The Union of Brest and the Church division -- "No" to the Soviet methods of struggle -- 2.4 Difficult northern neighbour -- 2.4.1 Heavy load of historical burden -- Contesting issues -- Reconciliation between Ukraine and Russia -- Legalisation and property conflicts -- Moscow and the Lviv Pseudo-Synod -- The Russian Orthodox Church as a victim -- Current coexistence -- 2.4.2 Reconciliation between nations through reconciliation between Churches? -- 2.5 Struggle between two Ukraines -- 2.5.1 History, identity, language -- History and identity -- The answer of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church -- Language -- 2.5.2 The trauma of the Holodomor -- Chapter III. Understanding of reconciliation -- 3.1 The Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church: reconciliation as the spiritual regeneration of the person -- 3.1.1 John Paul II as the advocate of reconciliation in Ukraine -- 3.1.2 The Greek-Catholic tradition of reconciliation -- 3.1.3 The human heart - the locus of reconciliation.

The heart as the core of the human person -- Where the changes are born -- 3.1.4 Reconciliation with the help of God -- 3.1.5 Reconciliation as a Christian obligation -- 3.1.6 Reconciliation as a spiritual testament and legacy of martyrs -- 3.2 Robert Schreiter: reconciliation as a healing -- 3.2.1 Horizontal and vertical dimensions of reconciliation -- 3.2.2 Practical theology of reconciliation -- Principle 1. "God is the author of reconciliation" -- Principle 2. "God begins with victims" -- Principle 3. "God makes of the victim and the wrongdoer a 'new creation" -- Principle 4. Place the suffering of the victim in the story of the suffering of Christ -- Principle 5. Eschatological completion of reconciliation -- 3.2.3 "Reconciliation is more a spirituality than a strategy" -- 3.2.4 Reconciliation as a metanoia -- 3.3 Miroslav Volf: Reconciliation as embrace -- 3.4 John Paul Lederach: reconciliation as the restoration of the fabric of community -- Chapter IV. Elements of reconciliation -- 4.1 On the demands for repentance -- 4.1.1 The Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church: repentance as the individual conversion of the heart -- 4.1.2 Miroslav Volf: "To repent of what perpetrators do to our soul" -- 4.2 On the path to forgiveness -- 4.2.1 The Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church: "We forgive and ask for forgiveness" -- Forgiveness as a feature of martyrs -- Asking forgiveness for negligence and indignation -- Formula of mutual forgiveness -- When Churches or nations ask forgiveness -- Forgiveness as the obligation of love -- Accepting forgiveness means recognising faults -- Asking forgiveness as an act of paying honour -- Asking forgiveness as a readiness to assume responsibility -- 4.2.2 Miroslav Volf: the centrality of forgiveness -- 4.2.2.1 Forgiveness as a gift and an obligation -- 4.2.2.2 The dynamics of forgiveness -- 4.2.2.3 Making space for the other.

4.2.3 Robert Schreiter: forgiveness as a grace to attend to the moral failures of the past -- 4.3 On the challenges of justice -- 4.3.1 The Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church: on the deficit of justice -- Which justice? -- Bringing about changes in Ukrainian society -- Some incitements for discussion -- 4.3.2 John Paul Lederach: conflicts originate from the lack of social justice -- 4.3.3 Robert Schreiter: overcoming structural injustices - soothing social tensions - advancing reconciliation -- 4.3.4 Miroslav Volf: genuine justice involves embrace -- Conclusion to Part I -- Part II. Memory and practical steps to reconciliation and Christian unity -- Introduction to Part II -- Chapter V. Healing of the burdened memory -- 5.1 The Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church: on history and memory -- 5.1.1 The duty to remember -- 5.1.2 "Leave the past to God and… to historians" -- 5.1.3 The purification of memory -- The individual examination of the conscience -- Learning the truth about the past -- Drawing lessons from the past -- 5.1.4 The healing of memory: main issues -- 5.1.4.1 Polish-Ukrainian reconciliation -- Reconciliation through prayer -- What unites both nations -- "The past through the prism of Christianity" -- 5.1.4.2 Healing the memories of World War II -- Teaching: redefining victory in moral terms -- What others say -- The actions -- 5.1.4.3 Reconciliation with the Russian Orthodox Church -- Recognition of historical faults -- Destruction of Orthodox dioceses in western Ukraine -- The struggle for the patriarchal status of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church -- When will the Patriarchs meet? -- 5.1.4.4 The missing memory of Jews -- Tony Judt. Why the memory of Jews is absent in Ukraine: the point of view of a historian -- Omer Bartov. The guilt of Ukrainians from the point of view of a Jew.

Myroslav Marynovych. Jewish-Ukrainian reconciliation from the point of view of a Greek-Catholic -- The controversy on Metropolitan Andrei Sheptytskyi -- The Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church on the Jewish-Ukrainian relations -- The actions -- The Church documents -- 5.2 Robert Schreiter: on the moral truth of the past -- 5.2.1 Social healing of memories -- 5.2.2 Discovering the moral truth of the past -- 5.3 Miroslav Volf: how to treat the burdened memory -- 5.3.1 Rules of salutary remembering -- 1. Remember with love -- 2. Remember truthfully - fulfil the obligation of justice -- 3. See with the eyes of the other - "double vision" -- 4. Remember therapeutically - healing the identity -- 5. Remember so as to learn from the past -- 6. Remember in a redeeming way -- 5.3.2 Slipping into oblivion -- Chapter VI. On the value of spiritual unity or how to promote reconciliation -- 6.1 The Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church: how spiritual unity may advance social transformation -- 6.1.1 All-Ukrainian reconciliation for the transformation of the country -- 6.1.2 Reconciliation between the Churches - spiritual unification of Ukraine -- 6.1.2.1 The ecumenical significance of the Patriarchate of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church -- 6.1.2.2 The united Kyivan Church -- "Holiness of united people of God" -- The inclusive Ukrainian/Kyivan Patriarchate -- Not uniatism but communion -- Practical project of communion -- Unity in diversity -- 6.1.2.3 Practical steps towards Church unity in Ukraine -- 6.1.2.4 Unity of the Church - unity of the nation -- 6.2 John Paul Lederach: on moral imagination or how to promote social changes -- 6.2.1 The dynamics of moral imagination -- 6.2.2 The value of relationships -- 6.2.2.1 Feeling connected -- 6.2.2.2 The qualities of web-making -- 6.2.2.3 Language, narratives -- 6.2.2.4 Building the platforms of cooperation.

6.2.3 The role of the Church in reconciliation: educate, empower, sanctify.

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