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Martirajul creştin – mijloc suprem de misiune creştină
Christian Martyrdom as Supreme Means of Christian Mission

Author(s): Iulian Nedelcu
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion
Published by: Facultatea de Teologie Ortodoxă Alba Iulia
Keywords: martyrs; faith; death; Eucharist; Jesus Christ; St. Basil the Great; confession; eternal life

Summary/Abstract: For Christians eternal life after death, but it's not only a future, she began by Christ rose from the dead. And as Christ remains with the faithful (and even her) eternal life began for them already as earnest. The real "death" actually occurs at baptism, with the transformation of "old man" into "the new". In this sense death is no longer considered a natural disaster, but a continuation of life in eternity. Experience martyrdom include death experience and Christian attitude toward death, gave legitimacy to their faith. This freedom before receiving death is based primarily faith, repentance, Holy Eucharist, not courage. In the testimony of martyrs of the faith, the power of his testimony in death of man come not only from nature, but from the help of divine power which is in him from the beginning, ie from grace. A first aspect of martyrdom is testimony to the price earthly life as the supreme value of life forever, then another aspect is the work of apologetics, apologists were the first martyrs of the faith.

  • Issue Year: XVIII/2013
  • Issue No: Suppl_3
  • Page Range: 471-498
  • Page Count: 28
  • Language: Romanian