Dumitru Stăniloae și epoca sa. Câteva aspecte
Dumitru Stăniloae and His Era: Some Aspects

Author(s): Adrian Nicolae Petcu
Subject(s): Theology and Religion, History of Religion
Published by: Editura Doxologia
Keywords: Dumitru Stăniloae; clergy in politics; Church and political movements;
Summary/Abstract: Often, from a historical perspective, theologian Dumitru Stăniloae is given an ideological label. Sometimes, only because he wrote a feature article during the period in which he served as editor-in-chief of “Telegraful Român” - the church journal published in Sibiu - through which he tried to reposition the Church in accordance with the new political commands of the time, this great theology professor is accused, with the change of each political regime, of sympathising with or adhering to the most infamous ideology that dominated the 1940s in Romania. And this happens either from a deficit of documentation and accommodation to the more influential historiography of the period in which we live, or from a misunderstanding and misinterpretation of an extremely tumultuous period that Romania experienced before and after WWII. Within the span of a decade, if we only refer to the period 1938-1948, Romania experienced four different political regimes, with totally opposing ideologies, to which the Church was forced to accommodate itself so as not to give up on its mission. Our article aims to analyse how the theologian and publicist Dumitru Stăniloae related to the ideological and, in general, political challenges that occurred, in succession, from the interwar period until the installation of the Soviet-origin regime in Romania.

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