Antim Ivireanul – fundamente sacre și seculare ale modernizării culturale
Anthim the Iberian-Sacred and Secular Foundations of Cultural Modernization

Author(s): Irakli Brachuli
Contributor(s): Alexandru-Corneliu Arion (Translator)
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Social Sciences, Education, History of Church(es), Theology and Religion
Published by: Ideas Forum International Academic and Scientific Association
Keywords: culture; education; sacred; secular;
Summary/Abstract: The essay is a study of the role of Saint Anthim the Iberian as one of the main figures of Romanian and Georgian cultural modernization in the 17th-18th centuries. His life and work combined spiritual and secular aspects, which gives him a unique place as one of the main representatives of the post-Byzantine Renaissance and Enlightenment era in the world of Eastern Christianity, in particular in the Balkans. He connected both spiritual and secular spheres. He was the Metropolitan of Valahia in 1708–1715 and played an important role in the development of Georgian and Romanian cultural and religious relations - in the establishment of typography, in the translation and publication of interlingual texts, in the establishment of a new model of religious and secular education, as well as in the strengthening of cultural and religious relations. Saint Anthim the Iberian was one of the first to start printing Georgian books, thereby making a significant contribution to the preservation and spread of Georgian culture.

• Details
• Contents