Sfântul preot mucenic Ilarion Felea – o viziune unitară și eclesial-experimentală asupra teologiei
Saint Hieromartyr Ilarion Felea: A Unified and Ecclesial- Experiential Vision of Theology

Author(s): Cristinel Ioja
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Theology and Religion, Pastoral Theology
Published by: Ideas Forum International Academic and Scientific Association
Keywords: Saint Hilarion Felea; unification of theology; Liturgy; Dogma; Philokalia; Lives of the Saints;
Summary/Abstract: In this study, we have highlighted the unitary vision of the holy priest Hilarion Felea. We have identified the stages and sources of this unitary vision of Theology. We have also emphasized the importance of a living, confessing theology deepened in unity with Scipture, the Liturgy and the Philokalia. The major concern of Saint Hilarion Felea was not theology, but the service of the community and the faithful through theology. His theological thinking is fertilized by the priestly service, by the liturgical land pastoral rhythms of the Church. The main guide of such an approach was not a system of concepts, an epistemological reflection, but the models of the Saints who embodied in their lives the entire message revealed and transmitted in and through the Church. Therefore, the importance of a unitary vision of Theology is linked to the strength of an incarnate theological message, experienced ecclesially according to the living models of the Saints. Such an approach remains permanently current for every theologian and historical era. Saint Hilarion, although he uses the conceptual systems of the time, does not remain their prisoner, but opens them, because he centers them in the Person of Christ and in the Lives of the Saints. From this point, the unity of Theology becomes a Christian modus vivendi according to the model of the Saints. The highest proof that fulfills his intuition and theological approach is his martyrdom according to the model of the Saints of the Synaxares at Aiud in 1961. Thus, in the confession of the martyrs, Theology is unified.

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