Un manual neconvențional pentru formarea permanentă a preoților sau cum biserica modernizează societatea (sfârșitul secolului al XIX-lea)
An Unconventional Handbook for the Continuing Training of Priests or How the Church Modernises Society (End of the XIXth Century)

Summary/Abstract: The study responded to the first theme indicated by the conference organisers, meaning the cultural inheritance left by Jan Amos Komenský. The author questioned how she could subsume this challenge under her preoccupations, meaning the interest for the involvement of the Church in social modernisation? If Komenský remained renowned to posterity by the phrase ”Every individual’s lifetime is a school”, analysis of how the Romanian Church United with Rome was concerned with continuing training of priests, ever since the XIXth century, to respond to numerous rigorous challenges of the society, amongst which was also the vice of alcoholism, is the author’s intention. Therefore, the study answers some questions: how are the priests trained to guide their parishioners? which are the instruments used by the Church on these lines? Consequently, our research confronts the synodal decision and how it is implemented in parishes by offering guidebooks or handbooks to priests to cut down on drinking.

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