Secularism: A Missionary Challenge

Secularismul-provocare misioanară

Author(s): Petru Ciobanu / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: Suppl_3/2013

Keywords: church; society; challenge; anthropocentrism; selfishness; desacralize; society without God; self-sufficiency; heresy; misionarism

The era in which we live has several features and certainly succes are impresive. Fond only one incredible borders of which friend is closed, he broke barriers of the gravity, has created pleople with talents unknown so far, implanted’them live or artificial organs, bringing them parts of other people. It produces species which do not have existed until now, transforms nature and destroys them laws, penetrate the body, soul influences, creates mentalities and skill, lays down that behavoir, reach distances at which neither was thinking, penetrate in the middle of the most worlds whith means, and energy in excess of any imagination, they feature main, but ist hat place against sphere of authenticity, of the truth of the integrity.

Communication in Society and Communication in the Church

Comunicarea în societate şi comunicarea în biserică

Author(s): Costel Ungureanu / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: Suppl_3/2013

Keywords: communication; values; community; Church; comunion

At all times,especially today's society it is becoming increasingly difficult to know the true values. In today's society it is hard to find real models, we find that the society has a large deficit in terms of communication. Although via different ways of communicaţion (newspapers, media, etc.) its members succeed to communicate to maintain a connection between them, we can say that there is not areal link or real communication. It's just a communication which steals the minds with vain philosophy and untrue wisdom, troughtthe poor meanings of the world and not after Christ. Therefore we the christian must apply and emphasizethe true meaning of communication, communication in communion in which we discover the true values, in which we find as real people and in which we succeed as Christians Church to shine in society.

The Uncertainty Principle in Quantum Physics and Its Epistemological Implications

Le principe de l’indétermination dans la physique quantique et ses implications épistémologiques

Author(s): Adrian Lemeni / Language(s): French / Issue: Suppl_3/2013

Keywords: determinism; epistemologie; empiric; obiectivitate; indeterminare; limite; intuiţie; adevăr

Fizica clasică a impus in plan epistemologic o perspectivă deterministă, precum şi viziunea unei exteriorităţi totale între subiectul cunoscător şi obiectul studiat. Această epistemologie, prin excelenţă impersonală, a servit ca fundament pentru construirea unei întregi filosofii politice şi sociologii deterministe. Fizica cuantică a implicat anumite principii revoluţionare în planul epistemologiei ştiinţifice. Obiectivitatea impersonală este depăşită în fizica cuantică, unde cercetătorul este efectiv implicat în fenomenul studiat. Principiul de indeterminare al lui Heisenberg a făcut ca adevărul ştiinţific să nu mai fie perceput într-o manieră fixistă, ca putând fi epuizat de o metodologie. Acest principiu presupune o mutaţie epistemologică majoră, prin posibilitatea asumării conştiinţei limitelor în cercetarea ştiinţifică. Perspectiva fizicii cuantice oferă astfel o deschidere a ştiinţei spre interogările de tip filosofic, precum şi o articulare cu viziunea teologică asupra lumii, prin posibilităţile unei ontologii ce presupune legătura dintre natural şi supranatural.

The Cult of Romanian Saints – Orthodox Witness in Contemporary Society

Cultul sfinţilor români – Mărturie ortodoxă în societatea contemporană

Author(s): Radu Iustin Nedejde / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: Suppl_3/2013

Keywords: church; worship; society; evidence; mission; faith

In a continuous changing society, the celebration of romanian saints represent the undoubted testimony of bimillenary romanian orthodoxy, but the pragmatic example of how Christians today need to understand and to receive the virtue of holiness too. Without saints, romanian nation would be poor, because the romanian saints with their example of life are those who speak about the romanian orthodoxy Church and romanian traditions all over in history, but they confessing the Christ, the Savior of the world, too. Today, the message of the Church should not be reduced to a theorization of the doctrine of faith, but should be rooted and fixed in saint’s life example. Currently, the dynamism enjoyed the cult of romanian saints represent, more than ever, that the christians need a practical examples of authentic orthodox life and tangible evidence of holines.

Doctrinal’s Aspects of Missionary in a Secularizing’s Society

Aspecte doctrinare ale misionarismului intr-o societate secularizata

Author(s): Bogdan Grigorescu / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: Suppl_3/2013

Keywords: Orthodoxy; Missionarism; Social Activism; Secularization

Being given the most accentuated secularization of the old christian world, the Church’s missionary activity receives a new understanding comparing to the earlier times. Nowadays the missionarism doesn’t reffer anymore only to the evangelization, the preaching of the Lord’ s words in new cultural spaces, but it also reffers to the old christian comunities, where the biblical message and the christian way of life becomes more and more occasional rather than personal. This is why we need to rediscover not only the importance of the doctrine of faith but also to find the way of improving and adapting the theological discourse to a seularized world, proving that the cconnection between missionarism and a personal christian life is of maximum interest for this new situation. In this theological study we also try to emphasize the danger of disconnecting the social activism from it’ real source of love: the person of God’s Incarnated Son, Christ the Lord.

A Prefiguration of the Messiah in Psalm 2

Prefigurarea lui Mesia în Psalmul 2

Author(s): Ioan Leonte / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: Suppl_3/2013

Keywords: prophecy; Jewish worship; Christian worship; Jesus Christ; Messiah; God the Father; ruler of the world

The second Psalm is part of the collection of 150 psalms present both in Jewish worship and in the Christian one. In all likelihood it is authored by the prophet David. The hymn in question was part of a coronation ceremony at the time it was written within Jewish society. Today, within the Christian Church, it is a memorial of the work of salvation accomplished by God in His Son Jesus Christ, Our Lord being the only possible march for the King spoken of in our Psalm. God, the Father of the Messiah (the Anointed One of the Lord), is working in Him in annihilating and, then, winning His enemies for Him. The way in which this is done is different from that of any other king before Him, the Mesia using a single weapon of defense and then conquer: the trust in His Own Father Who is always with Him and Who imposes Him as the Ruler of the world.

Liturgy and mission in contemporary society

Liturgy and mission in contemporary society

Author(s): David Pestroiu / Language(s): English / Issue: Suppl_3/2013

Keywords: liturgy; mission; society; church; witness

This study is intended as an outline of the main elements which compose a genuine symphony between the Church’s mission and the celebration of the Holy Liturgy. The Holy Liturgy, whose message is far from becoming out-of-date or its content being reduced to ”aggiornate” (up to date) versions, remains the same mystical participation in the Last Supper, in the sacrifice and ressurection of our Lord. Its message is even more relevant in the spiritual void brought about by postmodernism. Consequently it is due for the Church’s mission to develop with sympathy a dimension the liturgical ministration, able to fill this void and it ought to do it.

The Biblical Model of Mission and Service in the Pedagogy of the Angel

Modelul biblic de misiune şi slujire în pedagogia îngerului

Author(s): Constantin Măruţoiu / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: Suppl_3/2013

Keywords: angel; mission; pedagogy; cherubim; seraphim

The problems implicating the Holy Angels represent one of the most controversial themes regarding the biblical research. Often minimalised or even sometimes ignored, the presence of The Holy Angels in the revelation aspects is governed by a real importance, through the role that they have in the kerygmatic ministration towards the Trinity and towards man. Having a direct involvement in the life of men and developing a real implication in today’s society, the presence of The Holy Angels has been discovered to be a challenge that the Orthodox Church and all the Christian Churches must undertake. Their discovery in The Holy Scripture and Holy Tradition represents them as an absolute and undeniable existence in the Christian belief represents them as an absolute and undeniable existence in the Christian belief.

The Re-Evangelisation of Europe. Aspects of a Concept

Conceptul de re-evanghelizare a Europei. Aspecte

Author(s): Ioan-Paul Crîngaşu / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: Suppl_3/2013

Keywords: Re-evangelisation; New Evangelisation; Secularisation; Globalisation; Catholic; Orthodox; Interconfessional Collaboration

The present study is one of the first efforts in romanian orhodox theology for an evaluation in the evolution of the ”Re-evangelisation” concept. The abstract of the study explains the main structure in wich it was conceived and also it announces that this is a very important and nowaday topic that concerns the orthodox missiology not only for the interconfessional aspect – that of knowing your sister Church`s main missiological methods, but it also concerns orthodox missiology for it`s own needs and demands. The study is divided in three parts that present the opinions of catholic and orthodox theologians (mainly clergymen) and then presents practical aspects and results of this new missiological trend. In the case of the catholic theologians I decided to make a subdivision between the popes who were the ititiators and the main promotors of the concept of “re-evangelisation” and the bishops and priests who are followers and promoters of theese “pioneers”. In this main part of the study I deliberately selected various opinions from different theologians, in order to observe the different views and also the different effects of the “reevangelisation” effort. In my conclusion I enumerated some radical opinions regarding the new missiological trend of “re-evangelisation” and the interconfessional collaboration – without going into details – and I expressed my personal view on the matter.

Sazhaljavam, izvinjavaj, proshtavaj (I’m sorry, excuse me, forgive me)

Съжалявам, извинявай, прощавай

Author(s): Rumen Stoyanov / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 3/2011

Language Culture

Archaic lexemes and derivational models in the Church Slavonic translation of the biblical Book of Kings

Архаични лексеми и словообразувателни модели в старобългарския превод на библейската Книга Царства

Author(s): Tatyana Slavova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 3/2011

Richness of the Bulgarian Vocabulary

Rumen Stoyanov, Somewhere in Between, Sofia 2011

Под топлия покрив на родния език (Румен Стоянов. Нейде между. София 2011)

Author(s): Kir. G. Popov / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 3/2011

We Present

A jubilee to be continued (Comparative linguistics. Annotated bibliography 1976 – 2009)

Един юбилей с продължение (Съпоставително езикознание. Анотирана библиография 1976 – 2009)

Author(s): Radost Zhelezarova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 3/2011

Chronicle

Prof. Todor Boyadzhiev turns 80

Учен с модерно мислене и възрожденски дух. Чл.-кор. проф. д-р Тодор Бояджиев на 80 години

Author(s): Krasimira Koleva / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 3/2011

Distinguished Bulgarian Scholars

On the ordeals of stress in Bulgarian

За “мъките” с българското ударение

Author(s): Hristo Holiolchev / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 3/2011

Language Culture

Nature and the environment

Природа и околна среда

Author(s): Rumen Stoyanov / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 3/2011

Language Culture

Bolgarskiy jazyk. "Zhivoj jazyk" (Bulgarian language. "Living language"), 2010

Болгарский язык. “Живой язык”, 2010.

Author(s): Nadezhda Mihailova-Stalyanova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 3/2011

We Present

In memory of Prof. Petar Pashov (1.4.1931 – 5.4.2009)

Спомен за проф. Петър Пашов (1.04.1931 – 5.04.2009)

Author(s): Ivanka Gugulanova / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 3/2011

Distinguished Bulgarian Scholars