Keywords: - Holy and Great Synod of the Orthodox Church, mission, ecumenical relations, diaspora, autonomy, marriage, fast.
Revd. PhD. Dr.h.c Viorel Ioniţă, Professor emeritus at the Orthodox Faculty of Theology, University of Bucharest, Romania.
In the century of Reformation and in defiance of a decided opposition coming from the Byzantine-Slavic Orthodoxy observed in the Provinces of Wallachia and Moldavia, the Romanians of Transylvania managed to find a way to introduce their national language in the Church, by gradually translating those texts that were vital for the liturgical and spiritual life of a parish. The analysis of the miscellaneous Manuscript 19 from the Library of the Theological Faculty in Sibiu reveals a lot of information about the pioneering work that the priests and hierarchs in Transylvania had to do in order to have the Romanian language introduced in the services of the Church.
Project financed from Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu research grants LBUS-IRG-2015-0.
This study, part of a broader research into the relationship between the conceptualization of several behavioral disorders as addiction and the concept of passion in Orthodox Christian spirituality, highlights the ontological substratum of two of the most remarkable and, at the same time, controversial features of these behaviors, namely their large prevalence and their involuntary character. The argument is based on the work of one of the most prominent theologians of Orthodox Christian spirituality that is St. Maximus the Confessor.
The study presents some aspects of the relationship between the Confession and the Eucharist as this relationship has been defined in the pastoral practice of Western Christian confessions as compared to that of the Orthodox Church, both in the tradition of the past centuries and the contemporary one. The views of some well-known theologians and hierarchs of the Orthodox Church are reviewed in response to the challenges and confusions of modernity in an effort to reaffirm and return to tradition.
PhD. Alexandru-Constantin Chituţă, Head of Education, Communication, Marketing and Secretariat of the Brukenthal National Museum, Sibiu, Romania.
* Petruţ-Ciprian Terciu, PhD Student at the “Andrei Şaguna” Orthodox Faculty of Theology, “Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu, Romania.
Revd. Constantin necula, Associated Professor at the “Andrei Şaguna” Orthodox Faculty of Theology, “Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu, Romania..