Abordarea explicită a Dreptăţii lui Dumnezeu în Psalmi (I)
The Explicit Approach to God’s Righteousness in Psalms (I)

Summary/Abstract: In order to identify the guidelines that the meanings of God’s righteousness have and for the purpose of a first outline, the present research examines scriptural places where the notion of “ righteousness” is present in the substantive variant (ἡ δῐκαιοσύνη), in 35 Psalms. It is Psalms 4, 5, 7, 9,17, 21, 22, 30, 34, 35, 39, 44, 47, 49, 50, 51, 64, 68, 70, 71, 84, 87, 88, 93, 95, 96, 97, 98, 102, 110,117, 118, 131, 142 and 144. The research, undertaken from the orthodox dogmatic perspective, shows that in the corpus of the Psalter the following meanings of this Attribute of God are highlighted, organically interwoven and modulated by specific moments in the History of Salvation: God’s participating righteousness; God’s guiding righteousness; God’s retributive righteousness (in general); retributive as Providence; retributive as Right-Judgment and God’s vindicating righteousness. All these six meanings are relevant in the discussion of theodicy, for which the present research wishes to provide “raw material”. The research will approach some topics (such as the curses in the Psalms) that implicitly relate to the relationship between God’s Righteousness and the existence of evil in the world, i.e. theodicy. Even if this theme is not a favorite subject in contemporary Orthodoxy, it belongs in Orthodox dogmatic theology and needs to be articulated, especially in today’s historical horizon.

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