Cărturarul Vasile Netea şi Cazania Sfântului Mitropolit Varlaam
The Scholar Vasile Netea and the Saint Metropolitan Varlaam’s Cazania

Book itineraries

Summary/Abstract: The life of the scholar Vasile Netea was entirely dedicated to study and intellectual work. Vasile Netea, our scholar from Mures Valley, was a spiritual man and made many refferences through his writing to religious literature. In Vasile Netea‘s concerns we can also find Romanian folklore and Romanian teachings. Vasile Netea, through his vast opera, presents the entire history of the Romanian people, analyzing all the epochs of our history and includes in his pages numerous elogies brought to important personalities of the culture and history of the Romanian people. From everything the scholar wrote we can clearly distinguish Vasile Netea’s patriotism. The publishing field of Vasile Netea is rich and varied. He was also an illustrious representative of Astra Society. He was also a great speaker with many conferences in his activity.Vasile Netea wrote about Varlaam the saint metropolitan of Moldavia and especially about his biggeste achievement, the work entitled The Homily (The Old Book of Religious Teachings - Cazania). Vasile Netea used to say that the most important Romanian literary monument of the first half of the XVIIth century and at the same time a cogent humanistic achievement was The Romanian Book of Teachings - Cartea românească de învăţătură, printed at Iasi in 1643, which is Varlaam’s Homily. This work was and it is very important. Through his long and multiple activity, the metropolitan Varlaam printed his name among the great hierarchs scholars from our past.

• Details
• Contents