Fundamente ale credinței ortodoxe: despre rolul sublim al Fecioarei-Mamă în iconomia mântuirii noastre şi supracinstirea Maicii Domnului la Sfântul Nicolae Cabasila
Foundations of the Orthodox faith: about the sublime role of the Virgin-Mother in the iconomy of our salvation and the over-honouring of the Mother of God at St. Nicholas Cabasilas

Summary/Abstract: A pious and erudite man, Saint Nicholas Cabasilas, the great Byzantine hesychast humanist living in the 14th century, truly occupies a special position among the Byzantine liturgical commentators of the Orthodox Church, showing a deep and organic theological and liturgical thinking, subtle and realistic, rational and mystical on matters and liturgical acts in the Church, with careful attention to the Holy Byzantine Liturgy and the administration of the Holy Mysteries of Christian initiation (Baptism, Anointing and Eucharist). He did not lose sight of the role that the Holy Virgin Mary had in the plan of salvation of the world through the Incarnation from her thighs, the most pure ones, of the Son of God, Who became Her Son and, therefore, our “brother” and of common origin with us by nature. Here are themes and doctrinal approaches found in his work and which have always been integrated into the theological debates of the Church. In what follows, we will highlight exclusively this Mariological theme, as we find it in the so refined and subtle theological thinking of Saint Nicholas Cabasilas, with the highlighting of his new theological writings (re)found recently from the contents of his homilies dedicated to honouring the Virgin Mary.

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