Onenessof Politics and Religion

About the Book

A historical and anthropologic retrospective on the evolution of politico-religious politic man from the time of Adam until today.
The two most important aspects of man’s developmental civilization and his continuance are politics and religion. In a historical sense the two have gone hand in hand, regardless of the modern concept of separating church and state.
It is the author’s premise that politics and religion should be in juxtaposition as they were in the Byzantine period. The author does not overlook the fact that both politics and religion have had their character stained. But the stains are superficial and fade from view when the substantive qualities of both axiomatic systems are brought into focus. One of the interesting tools the author uses in bringing these substantive qualities to light is discussing the two systems in terms of their paternalistic and maternalistic behavior and thereby setting up, through empirical evaluation, a natural order of things according to what paternalism and maternalism make of man.
For the historical and social testing ground the author especially looks into the Byzantine period for testing the good and evil precepts of his theory. From this study comes a oneness, an Ecumenical Legacy, the author calls it, of politics, religion and ethics, a divine direction for man, “Synodically” oriented, that is realistic and optimistic, too, a joining of those normally interpreted opposites seldom seen these days.

About the Author

Nicholas C. Eliopoulos is an architect and a writer on varied subjects. His interests are history, linguistics, theology, matriarchal and patriarchal social developments, besides art and sculpture. Spending much time in books that we are permitted by the “establishment” to see, and as well in books that are dubbed “politically incorrect,” he finds conflicts of information and opinions, lapses in logical sequences, general failure to synthesize much available and valuable information and facts, and “cover-ups.” In his travels in Europe, Near East, Africa and South America, he likes to go native, to stay at hotels where English is not spoken (says it is cheaper that way), to ride in streetcars and buses instead of taxis, and often is mistaken for an immigrant wherever he visits.