Repere necesare asupra vieții, epocii și scrierilor Sfântului Ioan Damaschin imnograful Bisericii Ortodoxe
Landmarks Necessary on the Life, Times and Writings of St. John Damascene hymnograph of the Orthodox Church

Summary/Abstract: Saint John Damascene, the Syrian Monk, is and will always be a prominent personality for the Spirituality and Tradition of the Eastern Church, the most relevant and orthodox source of patristic teaching, the unrivaled benchmark of the confession of the revealed Truth in the Church of Christ at the end of the era. His vast work, so well oriented, systematized and presented so original and unique in its way, is a true manual or treatise of orthodox dogmatics, a faithful echo of the Church Fathers, which he succeeded, in an original and unique way, to synthesize their thinking and the theological system formulated, as well as to ensure the transmission of their relevant ideas for the development of the fundamental dogma in the Church. That is why he is considered to be a systematizer of Christian theology, in general, unitarily and faithfully rethinking what had been dispersed, giving, through his original work, doctrinal and poetic structural coherence, brevity and cursiveness of the Christian teaching of the Church of the East. He is canonized and solemnly honored in the Orthodox Church, with an annual special commemoration on December 4.

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