Conferința inaugurală I: Father Dumitru Stăniloae Among the Fathers
Inaugural Lecture I: Father Dumitru Stăniloae Among the Fathers

Author(s): John Behr
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Theology and Religion
Published by: Editura Doxologia
Keywords: Dumitru Stăniloae; Orthodox Theology; Patristic Theology; Philokalia; Church Fathers; Patristic Translations;
Summary/Abstract: In the renaissance of Orthodox theology in the past century, one of the greatest luminaries was St Dumitru Stăniloae. The extent of his published work far exceeds any other Orthodox theologian of the period, and the range of his engagement was breathtaking. Most important of course was his edition of the Philokalia, not simply a translation of the 1782 Greek edition by St Nikodemus of the Holy Mountain and St Makarios of Corinth, but an extended - 12 volume - edition containing many other texts, such as the complete Questions to Thalassios by St Maximos the Confessor (for only a series of centuries of extracts had been included in the Greek edition) as well as writings from figures not included in the Greek edition at all, such as the Ladder by St John of Sinai, the ‘Questions and Answers’ of Saints Varsanouphios and John, and, significantly, writings of St Isaac the Syrian, one-time bishop of the Church of the East. In addition, Stăniloae also undertook numerous translations of Patristic texts, notably of course St Maximos the Confessor’s Ambigua and his Mystagogia, as well as texts by St Athanasios, St Gregory the Theologian and St Gregory of Nyssa, Dionysius the Areopagite and St Cyril of Alexandria: moreover, these were not, however, simply translations, for they were usually accompanied by lengthy scholarly commentaries.

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