Alexandre J.M.E. Christoyannopoulos (born 1979) is a French

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–Greek

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 author, politics lecturer and Christian pacifist

Christian pacifism

Christian pacifism is the theological and ethical position that any form of violence is incompatible with the Christian faith. Christian pacifists state that Jesus himself was a pacifist who taught and practiced pacifism, and that his followers must do likewise.There have been various notable...

. He currently lectures at Loughborough University

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, England

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. Christoyannopoulos graduated in Economics from the University of Kent

University of Kent

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 in 2000, then went on to earn master’s degree in International Relations and European Studies and a doctorate in Religious Studies and Politics from the same university. His books Religious Anarchism: New Perspectives and Christian Anarchism: A Political Commentary on the Gospel were the topics of his doctoral thesis.

Christian Anarchism cites Leo Tolstoy

Leo Tolstoy

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 as its most notable proponent, but also includes references to Jacques Ellul

Jacques Ellul

Jacques Ellul was a French philosopher, law professor, sociologist, lay theologian, and Christian anarchist. He wrote several books about the "technological society" and the interaction between Christianity and politics....

, Vernard Eller, Dave Andrews

Dave Andrews

Dave Andrews is an Australian Christian anarchist author, speaker, social activist, community developer, and a key figure in the Waiter's Union, an inner city Christian community network working with Indigenous Australians, refugees and people with disabilities in Australia...

, Michael C. Elliott, Nikolai Berdyaev

Nikolai Berdyaev

Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev was a Russian religious and political philosopher.-Early life and education:Berdyaev was born in Kiev into an aristocratic military family. He spent a solitary childhood at home, where his father's library allowed him to read widely...

, Adin Ballou

Adin Ballou

Adin Ballou was an American prominent proponent of pacifism, socialism and abolitionism, and the founder of the Hopedale Community...

, Petr Chelcicky

Petr Chelcický

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, Dorothy Day

Dorothy Day

Dorothy Day was an American journalist, social activist and devout Catholic convert; she advocated the Catholic economic theory of Distributism. She was also considered to be an anarchist, and did not hesitate to use the term...

, Peter Maurin

Peter Maurin

Peter Maurin was a Roman Catholic social activist who founded the Catholic Worker Movement in 1933 with Dorothy Day.Maurin expressed his ideas through short pieces of verse that became known as - Biography :...

 and Ammon Hennacy

Ammon Hennacy

Ammon Ashford Hennacy was an Irish American pacifist, Christian anarchist, social activist, member of the Catholic Worker Movement and a Wobbly...

. In the book Christoyannopoulos concludes the following about Christian anarchism

Christian anarchism

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 and its place in political thought:
In 2008, Christoyannopoulos founded Academics and Students Interested in Religious Anarchism (ASIRA) within the Anarchist Studies Network, a Political Studies Association

Political Studies Association

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 specialist group.

External links

• Alexandre Christoyannopoulos - author's website
• Works by A.Christoyannopoulos - hosted by Loughborough University Institutional Repository
• Christian Anarchism: A Revolutionary Reading of the Bible - presented by A.Christoyannopoulos at the World International Studies Conference in July 2008
• A Christian Anarchist Critique of Violence: From Turning the Other Cheek to a Rejection of the State - presented by A.Christoyannopoulos at the Inter-disciplinary.net's "Evil, Law and the State" and Political Studies Association's conferences in March 2010
• Was Jesus an anarchist? - interview with Alexandre Christoyannopoulos by William Crawley
  William Crawley
  -Television presenter:He recently presented Blueprint, a three-part television natural history series, which ran from 31 March 2008, as the centre-piece of the most ambitious multi-platform broadcasting project in the history of BBC Northern Ireland. The Blueprint season united TV, radio and online...
  
  , BBC Northern Ireland
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  , May 2011