Fundamentele credinței creștine: Trăsături ale eclessiologiei ortodoxe în scrierile Sfântului Nicolae Cabasila
Foundations of the Christian Faith: Traits of Orthodox Ecclesiology in the Writings of St. Nicholas Cabasila

Summary/Abstract: Saint Nicholas Cabasila, the great Byzantine Hesychastic humanist living in the fourteenth century, is known as an illustrious figure who occupies a special position among the Byzantine liturgical commentators of the Orthodox Church, manifesting a deep and organic theological and liturgical thinking, subtle and realistic, rational and mysticism on matters and liturgical acts in the Church, with a careful focus on the Holy Byzantine Liturgy and on the administration of the Holy Sacraments of Christian Initiation (Baptism, Anointing and the Eucharist). We know that he did not lose sight of the role that the Blessed Virgin Mary had in the plan of salvation of the world through the Incarnation in Her most pure thighs of the Son of God, Who became Her Son and, therefore, our "brother" and a condescension by nature to us. But neither are orthodox ecclesiological themes, such as the notion of the Church, of the "new man" formed in the Church, life in the Spirit of Christ and the love and joy of man's full union with God through the elements of the Eucharist (the Body and Blood of Christ) and virtues. Therefore, a complete theologian, bent in his majestic work on the great themes and doctrinal approaches of the Church always, which is why he entitles us to get closer to this side of his approaches. In the present study something about the ecclesiological side of the corpus of his doctrine.

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