Greek opposition to evangelism

Authors

  • John Warwick Montgomery

Keywords:

Evangelism, proselytism, European Court of Human Rights, Greek Orthodox Church, Youth with a Mission (YWAM), “Athens 3”, Larissis, Kokkinakis, church-state relations, established churches

Abstract

The Greek anti-proselytism law has posed serious problems for evangelism and for the functioning of non-Greek Orthodox religious activities in that country – so often described as “the cradle of democracy.” In this article, the most important legal cases dealing with Christian evangelism in Greece are analyzed by the law professor who successfully won them at the Court of Appeals in Athens and at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.

Author Biography

John Warwick Montgomery

John Warwick Montgomery (*1931) is Emeritus Professor of Law and Humanities, University of Bedfordshire, England, Distinguished Research Professor of Apologetics and Christian Thought, Patrick Henry College, Virginia, U.S.A., and Director, International Academy of Apologetics, Evangelism & Human Rights, Strasbourg, France. He holds a Master of Philosophy in Law from the University of Essex, England, a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, a Doctorate in Protestant Theology from the University of Strasbourg, France, the higher doctorate in law (LL.D.) from the University of Cardiff, Wales, and other degrees. His legal speciality is the international and comparative law of human rights and he regularly pleads religious freedom cases before the European Court of Human Rights. He is a U.S. and U.K. citizen, the author of some sixty books in five languages (www.ciltpp.com), and is included in Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in France, the European Biographical Directory, Who’s Who in the World, and Contemporary Authors. This paper has been previously published in Germany only in the book by JWM ‘Christ our Advocate’ (Bonn: VKW 2002) and has undergone peer review since.

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Published

2023-01-18

Issue

Vol. 4 No. 1 (2011): Advocacy and Law

Section

Articles

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