COURAGE IN THE MONK'S SERMONS NICOLAE DELAROHIA
COURAGE IN THE MONK'S SERMONS NICOLAE DELAROHIA

Summary/Abstract: One of N. Steinhardt's reference works, Dăruind vei dobândi, published posthumously, includes over 40 sermons delivered between the 70s and 80s by this intellectual who entered the monastic life at the Rohia Monastery. The critical analysis of this paper highlights Steinhardt's preoccupation with the theme of courage and the use of a subversive message about communism by reference to the text of the Bible. Courage was a burden of Steinhardt's creation, an aspect that becomes evident through his works, in which he pleads for the courage to act, to express your opinion, to take an attitude toward injustice, to persevere, to be loyal and not to betray, despite the pressures, to open new paths, but the quintessence of this preoccupation culminates with the detailed analysis of courage from a religious perspective in the sermons given by N. Steinhardt during the monastic life at the Rohia Monastery. The work Dăruind vei dobândi is one of the few theological works in which such an important place is given to this Christian virtue - courage, and is an existential guide based on Christian precepts and models. N. Steinhardt proved his courage during the sermons delivered at the Rohia monastery the courage to express one's opinion, to urge vigilance, critical attitude, resistance to abuses of any kind, through the emphasis placed in words of faith on the idea of freedom, dignity, the general good, which represented in the years of communism a real frond attitude.

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