THE IMPORTANCE AND CURRENTNESS OF THE PASTORATE OF METROPOLITAN VARLAAM FOR THE CHURCH AND THE ROMANIAN NATION
THE IMPORTANCE AND CURRENTNESS OF THE PASTORATE OF METROPOLITAN VARLAAM FOR THE CHURCH AND THE ROMANIAN NATION

Summary/Abstract: The current Research Report records the revitalization of the Byzantine way of life during the time of Ruler Vasile Lupu and Metropolitan Varlaam, in which the Moldavian society of the 17th century is already engaged in the spiritual, cultural, historical directions of a Europe that had assimilated almost a century the ideas of the Renaissance and humanism. Keeping the traditional vein of the time, the effort to search for new languages, typologies, or solutions, able to express as faithfully as possible the renewing desires of the era, is recorded now, having to do with an era of great spiritual transformations, the most significant event of the time, making it break away from the sphere of Byzantine-Slavic influence, where Romanian medieval art did not transpose from other areas of culture, but interpreted each time the elements it accepted to appropriate, interpreting the specific data related to the background Romanian spirituality. Throughout this period of time of the first half of the 17th Moldovan century, dominated by the two historical personalities of this time, Vasile Lupu and Varlaam of Modova, a society that for several centuries lived under the umbrella of the Byzantine world, he now feels the need to leave the rigid frames of this life and to look more and more towards the people who will later form one culture, one faith and one people.

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