Education in the Thought and Work of Metropolitans of Moldova Jacob Putnean, Iacob Stamati and Veniamin Costachi Cover Image

Educația în gândirea și lucrarea mitropoliților Moldovei Iacob Putneanul, Iacob Stamati și Veniamin Costachi
Education in the Thought and Work of Metropolitans of Moldova Jacob Putnean, Iacob Stamati and Veniamin Costachi

Author(s): Ion Vicovan
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, History of Church(es), School education, Eastern Orthodoxy
Published by: Editura Doxologia
Keywords: hierarchs; culture; school; books; textbooks;

Summary/Abstract: Our Church has always been focused on the education of its spiritual sons and daughters, irrespective of their age. This essential work has been revealed in many forms: preaching, confessing, building schools, writing and printing textbooks for students or books for general teaching, etc. The Metropolitan Iacob Putneanul, Iacob Stamati and Veniamin Costachi are only those few among many hierarchs of our Church who consistently and systematically focused on this work; hence, the name given in their hounor by their contemporaries or descendants (“The Romanians’ Pestalozzi” or “The Enlightener of Moldova”). Beyond this thorough and fundamental education provided by means of the pulpit or the confession chair, they were the founders of numerous and various schools, they wrote and published the first textbooks, they made sustained effort in introducing or reintroducing the Romanian language in schools and Church, as well as printing countless religious books, teachings, many of which had important prefaces underlining the benefits of education, emphasizing the final human destination – “rejoicing into God”.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 05+08
  • Page Range: 5-22
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Romanian