Abstract
This article deals with the possibility of a theological encounter between nation, nationalism, and Orthodox theology, and attempts to focus on a third solution beyond both ethno-phyletism and ethno-nihilism, based upon a reassessment of theological eschatology. After an account of the patristic positions, it continues with an examination of modern theories of nation, starting with Gellner, Anderson, Hobsbawm, Hroch and Smith, and concluding with the modern accounts of nation from the School of Frankfurt and the Lacanians. Thence it aims to spell out the main characteristics of a theological intervention in the modern understanding of nation, with the purpose of suggesting an anthropocentric correction of modern political theory.
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