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The psaltic music – a means of healing disbelief and suffering and a remedy for the soul. The psaltic music represents the sum of the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, of the mastery and the spiritual life of the holy chanters. Far from being just an artefact created to embellish liturgical life, church singing is, essentially, a treasure of faith, expressed in the life of the Church through word and sound. Starting from this premise, namely the truth of faith confessed through music, some of the Church Fathers considered singing a panacea for the soul, which can contribute to the healing of passions and the healing of the sin within our souls. Therefore, the music of our Church is simultaneously a means of divine knowledge through the content of the words of faith, and a spiritual remedy for healing from the wounds caused by the illusion and sin of disbelief. In recent years, there has been increasing talk about the role of classical secular music in the therapy of the human soul as well, so all the more, we aim to consider how important church singing is for healing disbelief and for the salvation of the soul. Through Orthodox chanting, the truth of faith transmitted through the refinement of musical sounds touches the mind and the entire human being. The holy chanters have chiselled and developed the Orthodox chants specifically to support the spoken prayer in the life of the Church. Therefore, in our research, we will focus on highlighting the role of church music in cultivating the spiritual well‑being of the Christian lives, a crucial element in their effort towards salvation.
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Artificial Intelligence; theological education; pastoral medicine.Our study starts from the premise that “always the one who is outside a system observes better what happens in the system, than the one inside the system”. So we try, over a few pages, to identify and nuance the opinion of someone “outside the system”, namely the “opinion” of Artificial Intelligence about a theological discipline considered by many to be obsolete, but which was of great importance in the theological education of the past. The prospect of reintegrating the subject, as an optional, in the contemporary Euro-Atlantic pedagogical context is interesting. In carrying out this approach, we were guided by some suggestive questions and interpreted the answers generated by Artificial Intelligence (software three).
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In the context of the furious amplification of bodily suffering against the background of the widening of the range of recognition of a list of diseases increasingly pressing for contemporary man, who is often racked by the projection of departure from this life and the despair of soul generated by the imminence of meeting God “in the mystery of death”, the present material aims to mirror some of the most important coordinates that Orthodox theology shares as a universal value about the reality of death and the eschatological perspective. It is precisely the eschatological detail as the image that is created by faith in the Church’s act of worship that becomes the key to overcoming any difficulties that each of us may experience in the inevitable condition of waiting for the final moment of this life. But this perspective is materialized starting from the liturgical text contained in the Church’s Book of Worship, where a series of aspects are highlighted which become so many ways of pastoral care available to the contemporary priest in his relationship with the suffering person, as well as with his relatives who feel the effects of the loss of a loved one most strongly, a reality which is strongly evident in the current social physiognomy, which has gone through so many trials that have each time generated a real sense of powerlessness in the face of illness and death.
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Antim Ivireanul, also known as the Holy Martyr Hierarch Antim Ivireanul, was a remarkable Romanian author, typographer, engraver, theologian, bishop and metropolitan of Georgian origin. In his youth, he was captured by the Turks and taken to Constantinople, but was later released. Between the years 1689-1690, the Holy Martyr Constantin Brâncoveanu brought him to Wallachia. His activity was essential for the promotion of Orthodox spirituality in this region. Through his sermons and teachings, Antim Ivireanul provided the faithful with a deep understanding of Orthodox doctrine and an authentic model of spiritual life. By establishing and managing printing houses, he contributed significantly to the production and distribution of literary and religious works, thus consolidating the national cultural heritage.
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This article analyzes the evolution of contemporary religious life in Romania since the 1990s. It takes into account theological, social, and, most notably, generational dimensions. The aim is to highlight the main changes that have occurred over this period and to outline a portrait and inventory of the current state of affairs. The article concludes with an open question and a call for dialogue and a deeper understanding of the Church’s relationship with the media and Romanian society in order to address the challenges of the contemporary world.
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This article aims to first present the history and development of religious pilgrimages within the Orthodox Church of contemporary Romania. The starting point is the foundational moment of these pilgrimages, marked by the bringing of the head of Saint Andrew the Apostle to Iași and Galați in the 1990s. It is followed by a sociological analysis of the main elements that define pilgrimage today: ambient music, the distribution of free food, the management of the space in which it takes place, and the interaction with local authorities and the population. The discussion also includes new norms and operational restrictions from the secular world that influence the development of pilgrimages and their future evolution. Pilgrimage is and will remain the most important form of public and popular religiosity in contemporary Romania.
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Identity exclusion is where we avoid exploring alternatives and accept, often uncritically or without deep analysis, any principles, values, or directions that are “transmitted or directed“ to us, most often by public authorities, society, or certain groups. Aging has become the dominant and most visible aspect of population structure dynamics globally. In the face of this large phenomenon, there can be several types of responses: social assistance, including the important role of the Church and formal education, the silver economy, a concept of positive identity and social inclusion for seniors and, why not, a leisure university that can play multiple social roles, a voice that puts seniority at the center of public perception. This article presents the Third Age University, a pioneering project in Romania, and the positive role played by the Archbishopric of the Dunărea de Jos within the social‑cultural university initiative in Galați.
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community; priest; pastoration; communion; spiritual life; salvation.The parish is the proper ground for living and developing the Christian life in Orthodoxy. It is the material and spiritual field of the priest’s pastoral activity and the medium for the manifestation of the religious life of the faithful. Between the priest and the faithful there must be a harmonious collaboration, in the sense that the priest must watch and follow carefully the evolution of the state of mind of his parishioners and apply the most relevant pastoral means, in order to make them authentic believers, devoted to the Church, aware of their Christian roles and duties. In the living and true parish, the priest works together with his believers for the realization and acquisition of the kingdom of God (John 18, 36; Luke 17, 21). Without such collaboration and without an awake conscience, the parish loses its supernatural character and essence and remains a mere administrative reality. Without the consciousness of liturgical and church unity, the parish remains a unit lacking dynamism. Therefore, the role of the priest in the parish is to transform this spiritual ground into a true oasis of spiritual living in which the Spirit of truth, justice, love and divine holiness can pulsate (Galatians 5, 25).
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There are many definitions of the Church. Among all, that of Father Dumitru Stăniloae is the closest to our approach, because it highlights the Truth according to which the Life of the Church and the Life of man are One and the Same Life: “The Church is the reflection of the Life of the Most Holy Trinity in humanity“. That is, the Life of the Most Holy Trinity also becomes the Life of Man and of all the creation. One Life lived from different perspectives: uncreated and created.
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The work entitled “The human mind in the theologizing of Saint Simeon the New Theologian. A patristic response to contemporary anthropological research” has as its fundamental objective the highlighting of the references that the Byzantine mystical theologian, Saint Simeon the New Theologian, makes in relation to the human mind (νοῦς), based on his spiritual experiences.
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In the present work, we have addressed a theme that seems very topical to us, given that, more than in previous decades, we encounter death, a great and mysterious passage from this world, which does not end our responsibility for the gift of which I received from God, namely life. From this perspective, we tried to discern a legal form of manifestation of man’s will after death - the testament, through the content of which we can better understand these great people who wrote history, reading, preserving, improving and passing on the cultural heritage that our cultural identity is built. Thus, after analyzing the document from a legal point of view and reconstructing its evolution from the diate form to the testament form, I also chose some case studies, based on documents drawn up by Saint Theodore the Studite, Metropolitan Stefan of Ungrovlahia and Bishop Iacov Stamati of the Huși.
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In this work, we have proposed to present the steps taken, during the interwar period, by the doctor Petru Râmneanțu, to create Tables for the height, weight and determination of the nutritional status of Romanian children aged 5‑15 years. These actually include the first national biometric assessments of Romanian children (22,250 children participated, from all over Romania), in order to determine their health status. The tables, summarizing the anthropometric measures, were published in the “Eugenic and Biopolitical Bulletin” edited by the Eugenic and Biopolitical Subsection of “Astra” and the Institute of Hygiene and Social Hygiene, Cluj. The author of the research did specialization studies at “John Hopkins” University in Baltimore, USA and was well aware of the efforts made in other European countries. He used the Add-Index machine for calculations. The results of the study also led to several conclusions, among which the fact that the low standard of living in interwar Romania (1936) has a negative impact on the physical development of children.
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All stages of history, both Antiquity and the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, but especially the period of modernity, have known terrible episodes of violence, wars, conflicts and tragedies. In all Empires and in all religions of the world the phenomenon of violence is found between peoples, ethnic groups, provinces, aristocracies, nobles and slaves. Political, philosophical, literary, theological texts include, equally, the drama of this scourge of violence, even from the most sacred human space, that of the family. The Jewish texts of the Old Testament outline and reflect the limited value of all goods, placing above all these temporal values the very life of man. Thus, the need for its defense and preservation, imposing it through the 6th commandment of the Decalogue: “thou shalt not kill”. The Old Testament biblical writings show us models of thinking and doing embodied through the way of manifestation of the personalities that make up the holy history A sentence earlier, in the Decalogue, we find the imperative to honor the father and the mother. The care and concern for the parents is included in the 5th commandment, through the words: “Honor your father and your mother, that it may be well with you”. live many years on the land that the Lord your God will give you” (Isa. 20, 12). So, the prohibition to kill becomes the official civil and sacramental imperative of the entire legislative body of humanity can also be found in the Law of Talion from the text of Exodus, chapter 21. “If two men fight and strike a pregnant woman and she abandons the child or without any other injury, the guilty party shall submit to the compensation that the husband of the woman will demand and he he will have to pay according to the DECISION OF THE JUDGES (Exodus, 21, 22), “and for any other injury, then he must pay soul for soul, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot...” Exodus , 21, 23-24). Talion’s law “an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, death for death...” – applicable to any bodily injuries introduces the idea of compensation: the one who causes an evil must suffer the same evil, having mainly a preventive purpose, to prevent the commission other facts of the same kind.
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Review of: Christopher Craig Brittain. Adorno ve Teoloji. çev. Arda Bilgin. İstanbul: Ayrıntı Yayınları, 2022, 272 s. The Frankfurt School is a movement of thought that is partly both philosophical and sociological. The most well-known members of the movement are Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer and Herbert Marcus. Others, like Adorno, have ideas that range over a wide range of areas, including Enlightenment critique, aesthetics, cultural theory, and an evaluation of contemporary society in general. Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud are the two most important figures in shaping the thoughts of the Frankfurt School thinkers. This work, Adorno and Theology, examines issues related to theology, metaphysics and religion in general, based on Adorno's works.
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The meaning of academy given in Athens in antiquity is connected with the aim of the journal Theology and Philosophy of Education. This text explains the journal's conceptual roots with methodological distinctions. Both the role of the phenomenological approach and key persons are mentioned.
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This paper undertakes an examination of the teachings of Dumitru Stăniloae, with a specific emphasis on his profound understanding of personal growth and the spiritual metamorphosis of the human soul. Stăniloae's viewpoint on these matters is carefully analyzed and placed within the broader context of Eastern Orthodox Christian theology. The paper examines Stăniloae perspective regarding the quest for illumination, emphasizing the profound expedition that individuals undergo as they endeavour for spiritual progression and inner metamorphosis. Moreover, it explores the practical implications of Stăniloae's teachings for individuals who are actively seeking personal development and a deeper comprehension of their spiritual existence. His exploration of theosis and the dynamic interplay between human agency and divine grace provides invaluable insights for individuals embarking on a spiritual expedition. In conclusion, innate capacity for personal growth and the collective dimension of religious existence, Stăniloae's teachings persist in illuminating the journey towards spiritual enlightenment within the Eastern Orthodox faith.
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