Subsidiarity as Loving Communion. Orthodox theologians such as Vladimir Lossky and Alexander Schmemann (among others) have rightly been critical of any political philosophy or theological understanding of the social order rooted in radical secularism or individualism. That this criticism was also often bound up with a less than appreciative understanding of the medieval Scholastic tradition caused them I think to miss not only the point that Brennan (here and here) makes but also (and more importantly) the fundamental consonance between the Catholic view of subsidiarity and Orthodox theological anthropology. Continue reading →