The Play of the Word. Address on the Occasion of Receiving a Doctorate Honoris Causa from “Alexandru Ioan Cuza University”, Iași, Romania
The Play of the Word. Address on the Occasion of Receiving a Doctorate Honoris Causa from “Alexandru Ioan Cuza University”, Iași, Romania

Author(s): John Behr
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Theology and Religion
Published by: Editura Doxologia
Keywords: Theology; Joy; Playfulness; God–Human Relationship; Gregory the Theologian; Maximus the Confessor;
Summary/Abstract: It is a great honour that you bestow on me today, and I am thankful to the Faculty of Theology, the Senate, and the University as a whole for this honour: I am deeply touched by this award and consider it a blessing both to be with you these days and now to be counted amongst your esteemed doctors. This is, of course, a solemn but joyful occasion, and I would like to take this opportunity to reflect on the joyfulness that should accompany our study of theology, a joy that is found, as Saints Gregory the Theologian and Maximus the Confessor intimate, in the playfulness that characterises the relation between God and the human being and our engagement in the discipline of theology.

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