Nicolae Steinhardt – o contribuţie românească la autobiografia spirituală
Nicolae Steinhardt - a Romanian contribution to spiritual autobiography

Summary/Abstract: In the Romanian space, the personality and work of Fr. Nicolae Steinhardt are surely very important. Among his notable works that be surely mentioned: The diary of happiness (Jurnalul fericirii). Published and re-published in several editions and translated in different languages, it represents not only a testimony regarding the prison or the repressive regime in this country, but also a work with important literary, philological, philosophical, historical and theological relevance. In discontinuously marks, sometimes accompanied by landmarks of space and times and other times not, he presents here the experience of prison together with other experiences, linking the facts lived with important literary works that determine him to have a certain perception on them, or with the mystical effect that they have. In the centre of his notes is the event of baptism (because Steinhardt is a Jew converted to Orthodoxy in prison and later, after the release, he becomes a monk in Rohia Monastery, in Maramureş, North Romania) and its spiritual consequences. Thanks to those aspects, his notes, although cannot be subsumed to the genre of the spiritual autobiography but remains a classic memorial work (a discontinuously diary), Steinhardt's diary is a work with important passages of spiritual autobiography. For this reason, we consider it a relevant Romanian contribution to the spiritual autobiography and we will try to emphasize inside this research the elements that brought us to this conclusion. Having important aspects of the aforementioned topic, it can be also an useful tool to create bridges with other Christian spiritualties, due to the fact that there can be found important works of the genre. For this reason, we will also present when needed the common points with autobiographies like the one of Teresa of Avila or the one of Dag Hammarskjöld.

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