Under Nichifor Crainic’s Mantle: Far-Right Topics in the Orthodox Clergymen’s Contributions to Gândirea, Calendarul, and Sfarmă-Piatră
Under Nichifor Crainic’s Mantle: Far-Right Topics in the Orthodox Clergymen’s Contributions to Gândirea, Calendarul, and Sfarmă-Piatră

Summary/Abstract: Using as a primary source articles written by clergymen of the Romanian Orthodox Church in the press sponsored by Nichifor Crainic, the present study aims at exploring Crainic’s status as a mentor for a certain part of the Romanian Orthodox clergy. This will be done by inventorying the articles written by Orthodox clergymen in these publications and the themes they addressed, and also by analyzing the overlap of themes specific to far-right rhetoric with the broader register of Crainic’s ideological conception. Finally, the study will show that Nichifor Crainic exercised a significant influence on a significant part of the Orthodox priesthood (the most notable being Fr. Dumitru Stăniloae), although relations with the upper hierarchy (except for Metropolitan Nicolae Bălan) where not always cordial and by no means simple. The study does not claim to be exhaustive, because the research purpose can be extended to the case of lay professors of theology and also be supplemented with the use of primary sources other than those strictly relating to the journalistic activity of the clergy.

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