Editing Just war theory (section)

====Russian Orthodox Church====
The ''War and Peace'' section in the ''Basis of the Social Concept of the Russian Orthodox Church'' is crucial for understanding the [[Russian Orthodox Church]]'s attitude towards war. The document offers criteria of distinguishing between an aggressive war, which is unacceptable, and a justified war, attributing the highest moral and sacred value of military acts of bravery to a true believer who participates in a justified war. Additionally, the document considers the just war criteria as developed in Western Christianity to be eligible for Russian Orthodoxy; therefore, the justified war theory in Western theology is also applicable to the Russian Orthodox Church.<ref>{{cite journal|doi=10.3390/rel11010002|doi-access=free|title='Militant Piety in 21st-Century Orthodox Christianity: Return to Classical Traditions or Formation of a New Theology of War?|year=2019|last1=Knorre|first1=Boris|last2=Zygmont|first2=Aleksei|journal=Religions|volume=11|page=2}} [[File:CC-BY icon.svg|50px]] Text was copied from this source, which is available under a [https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License].</ref>

In the same document, it is stated that wars have accompanied human history since the [[fall of man]], and according to [[the gospel]], they will continue to accompany it. While recognizing war as evil, the Russian Orthodox Church does not prohibit its members from participating in hostilities if there is the security of their neighbours and the restoration of trampled justice at stake. War is considered to be necessary but undesirable. It is also stated that the Russian Orthodox Church has had profound respect for soldiers who gave their lives to protect the life and security of their neighbours.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://old.mospat.ru/en/documents/social-concepts/viii|title=Social Concepts, Chapter VIII.|language=en-GB|access-date=2024-11-23}}</ref>