SFÂNTA TREIME SINTEZĂ DE TEOLOGIE DOGMATICĂ

Author(s): Marin Bugiulescu / Language(s): Romany Issue: 01/2015

Our Lord, Jesus Christ, incarnated in human body, taking on our human nature - „and He made Himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness” (Philippians 2:7), existed in order to raise us from the sin of perdition and to give us again the possibility to enter His eternal and blissful Kingdom of the holy light and of eternal bliss. Thus, God’s knowledge is objective and certain because it comes from God; you can achieve it through faith and by experiencing it through ascesis and love: „this is eternal life: that they know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent” (John 17:3).

BAZELE CONTEMPORANE ALE DIALOGULUI DINTRE STIINTA SI CREDINTA

Author(s): Mihai Sebastian Stoian / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 01/2015

The discussion between science and religious belief has played a crucial role in the development of both Western science and culture in the approximately 400 years since the birth of modern science. During the modern period many philosophers have assumed that science is incompatible with belief in God. This belief became more widespread among philosophers during the first half of the twentieth century for reasons that included the epistemology of positivism, the prestige accorded to scientists and their work, and an unfortunate inability to distinguish between metaphysical and methodological naturalism.

Taina Sfântului Botez- început nou al vieții prin unirea cu Hristos

Author(s): Stefan Florea / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 02/2015

This articles presents the The Holy Sacrament of Baptism- new beginning of life through union with Christ. The sacraments were instituted by Christ and were part of the Liturgical Tradition of the early Christian Church. Holy Baptism is the first of seven Sacraments in the Orthodox Christian Church. The Lord Jesus who instituted Baptism, said of the Disciples: „Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit...”(Matthew 28,19). Baptism is necessary for salvation (John 3,5), and man is born a new life, new Christian is a child of God. Baptism is the basis of the whole Christian life held in the Church.

Facerea lumii și a omului. Sinteză de Teologie Dogmatică

Author(s): Marin Bugiulescu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 02/2015

This articles presents the creation of the world and of man, and especially the relation between God and His creation. In the act of creation, God Shows His love for man. The man is the companion of God and the continuer of creation.This article presents the creation of man and alienation from God by sin and has the following themes: The image of God and man's relationship with God,Man's likeness to God. Man was created as being different from the angels and animals, Man's fall into sin and the consequences of sin. We can see the following aspects of the sin: origin, universality and consequences of original sin: alteration of the image of God, which means the darkening of the mind, weakening the will and hardning of feeling. The state of man as the slave of sin and of passions has a sole consequence: death.

CREDINTA ORTODOXĂ ȘI ROMÂNIA

Author(s): Marin Bugiulescu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 01/2015

Christian mission in the Romania has been continuous, but has adapted to the realities of everyday life and to historical conditions, both local and national. However, the clergy and the believers engaged in serving the Church in Romania continued preaching the Gospel and strengthening the faith and unity of the nation, a necessary component for effective ministry.

ICONOCLASMUL

Author(s): Sorin Răpeanu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 01/2015

Iconoclasm literally means “icon-breaking,” which includes the religious as well as political destruction of images or monuments, usually though not always those of another religious group. Iconoclasm is frequently a component of major domestic political or religious changes. Iconoclasm is the belief that there should not be religious pictures or sacred images or religious monuments because they are seen as a form of idolatry.Conversely, people who revere or venerate religious images are called “iconolaters.” In a Byzantine context they are known as“iconodules” or “iconophiles.”

Dezvoltarea psihică în cadrul relaţiilor intra şi inter personale

Author(s): Victoria Verdeş / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 01/2015

As a basic dimension of personality, self esteem is related to the relation that each human subject has with himself, the confidence in one’s own ability to think and act independently, autonomously, to take decisions in order to reach goals, to assert one’s needs,aspirations, to aspire to and fight for their accomplishment.

VIAŢA BISERICEASCĂ ÎN SCIŢIA MINOR

Author(s): Constantin Valentin Bugiulescu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 01/2015

Saint Andrew, the Apostle of the Gets-Dacians (Scythes). As Romanians, we draw our Christian faith from St Andrews’s activity, who preached on the territory between the Danube and the Black Sea, later on called Dobrudgea, known from the antique sources as “Scythia Minor”.In the 3rd century, the number of these “lay” missionaries increased due to certain Christian prisoners whom the Goths - established on the territory north of the Danube - used to bring here from Asia Minor, where Christianity was known as far back as the “apostolic century”. Some of them were ordained as bishops, chorepiscopi, priests and deacons.

Sfânta Taină a Spovedaniei. Dimensiunea eclesiologică şi morală

Author(s): Marin Bugiulescu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 02/2015

This articles presents the Sacrament of Confession and the effects that it has both on the ecclesial community in general and for each believer in particular. The role of the Sacrament of Confession is: the elimination, cleansing and expiation of sins. The pages of Scripture we have revealed that the most important part of repentance is regaining the harice state before sin. The inner transformation of man through repentance is extremely important;God urges man to reject sin and return to Truth. All along the Scripture, repentance was presented and understood as the highest virtue, not only because it is a virtue in itself but because it creates a state of inner tension that continuously urges man to return to God.

The spiritual meanning of illness-theological and psychological perspective

Author(s): Claudia Vlaicu / Language(s): English Issue: 02/2015

Definying illness is not an easy process, nor from medical perspective nor from theological one or individual perspective. However, the most important and truely significant seems to be the latter;how the contemporary man defines illnesses and how he uses this process to redefine his true being.Nowadays we face an obvious spiritual crisis meant to urge each of us to start a new process of redefining our spiritual identity. This paper is intented to remind us of the essence of our being on the one hand and of the Christian duty to fight against illness on the other hand, to bear permanently with us the model of Jesus, of the Holly Parents, who were subject to deseases also out of reasons that are related to God’s iconomy. The limits of medicine are visible there where miracles start to reveal themselves and the healing of the body symbolizes and announces the healing of the entire Being.

Specificitatea spiritualității ortodoxe

Author(s): Traian-Alexandru Miu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 02/2015

The notion of spirituality Orthodoxy acquires the meaning of life lived in communion with the Holy Trinity, who was discovered by Jesus Christ according to the teachings contained in the Gospel. The Orthodox spirituality can have the valence of transparency of the Christ for man and transparency of the man for Christ, achieved through the work of the Holy Spirit in the Church.The final target of the entire Orthodox spirituality is the perfection of the believer in Christ, achievable only through personal participation in His divine-human life, cleansing our passions and acquiring virtues. The means by which we can come to Christ living in us are asceticism, which concerns our personal efforts to acquire divine grace and mystique,which involves receiving divine grace given to us to live and to know the spiritual state of the union with God.

Repere spirituale în istoria monahismului romanesc

Author(s): Constantin Aionei / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 02/2015

This article presents the life and work of the most important landmarks spirituality in the history of Romanian monasticism: Saint John Cassian,Saint Nicodemus of Tismana, Basil of Poiana Marului, Saint Pious Paisie Velicikovski Calinic Cernicanul. By their monks, monasteries were centers of spiritual faith and spirituality. Through their personalities who have excelled in the area of culture,spirituality and holiness, monasteries have performed a spiritual role in the life of the Romanian people and that type of training was at the root of Romanian civilization.

Ludność Górnego Śląska w latach 1950–1989 w świetle wybranych polskich i niemieckich materiałów źródłowych (opracowanie analityczne)

Author(s): Marek Mazurkiewicz / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2017

The article is an attempt at the delineation of a picture of the population of Upper Silesia in the years 1950–1989. This effected the basis of selected source materials from Polish and German archives. The focus of the report is also on the problem of differences in the perception of the population of Upper Silesia by Polish and German authorities (Federal Republic of Germany). The source of these differences was the fact that on both the issue of perception and the creation of politics regarding the people of Upper Silesia both countries, in a marginal manner, defined the meaning of the specifics of the Polish-German cultural borderland and its influence on the identifying features of its residents. In this way, the problem of the Polish and German rivalry about the identity adherence of Upper Silesians was born. This resulted, among others, in the phenomenon of emigration.

Andrzej Kopiczko, Dzieje kościoła i parafii św. Wojciecha w Mrągowie do 1945 r., Instytut Historii i Stosunków Międzynarodowych Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego, Olsztyn 2015, ss. 190

Author(s): Alicja Dobrosielska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2017

Druga repatriacja ludności polskiej z ZSRS na Warmii i Mazurach. Wybór dokumentów z zasobu Archiwum Państwowego w Olsztynie z lat 1955–1962

Author(s): Ryszard Tomkiewicz / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2017

Ziemia Lubuska, t. 1, red. Anitta Maksymowicz, Muzeum Ziemi Lubuskiej, Zielona Góra 2015, ss. 330

Author(s): Marcin Tujdowski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2017

Ziemia Lubuska. Dziedzictwo kulturowe i tożsamość regionu w perspektywie powojennego siedemdziesięciolecia, red. Tomasz Nodzyński, Marceli Tureczek, Zielona Góra – Gorzów Wielkopolski 2015, ss. 398

Author(s): Marcin Tujdowski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2017

Irena Kurasz, Mniejszość niemiecka na Dolnym Śląsku. Studium socjologiczne, Zakład Wydawniczy NOMOS, Kraków 2016, ss. 332

Author(s): Andrzej Sakson / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2017

Zuzanna Grębecka, Obcy w mieście. Żołnierze radzieccy w pamięci, doświadczeniu i opowieści legniczan, Wydawnictwo Libron, Kraków 2017, ss. 550

Author(s): Marek Żak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2017

Polemika z cyklem reportaży Ziemowita Szczerka („Polityka“, nr 27–29, 31–34, 2014)

Author(s): Marcin Tujdowski / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2017