Un model de monahism și misiune: „Rugul aprins” de la Mănăstirea Antim
A model of monasticism and mission: “The Burning Bush Movement” at the Antim Monastery
Author(s): Ioana-Zoia Sandu (Ursu)Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, History of Church(es), Theology and Religion
Published by: Facultatea de Teologie Ortodoxă Alba Iulia
Keywords: the Burning Bush; monasticism during communism; religious repression in communism, anti-communist spiritual resistance; culture and spirituality during communism;
Summary/Abstract: The Burning Bush Movement at the Antim Monastery represented a unique case of symbiosis between laic intellectuals and monasticism,which promoted a spiritual form of anti-communist resistance centred onthe practice of the Prayer of the Heart. The activity of the “Burning Bush ofthe Mother of God” Association during the mid-1940s consisted in weekly conferences on various subjects of theology and apologetics. Debates were doubled by participation in religious services and prayer, which createdboth a specific spiritual ethos and functioned as a missionary coordinate.While exploring the particular missionary and monastic ethos belonging to the “Burning Bush”, the paper attempts to inquire the validity and importance of such a model to nowadays monasticism.
Journal: Altarul Reîntregirii
- Issue Year: XX/2015
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 267-278
- Page Count: 14
- Language: Romanian