Romanian Orthodox Academic Theology and the Discovering of the Philokalia during the Interwar Period
Romanian Orthodox Academic Theology and the Discovering of the Philokalia during the Interwar Period

Summary/Abstract: The present research attempts to analyse the context of the interest in the texts of the Philokalia and how this collection of ascetic and mystical writings contributed, through the research of Romanian theologians, to the development of a neo-patristic synthesis in Romania during the Interwar period. I devoted the first part of the research to the neo-patristic synthesis proposed by Fr Georges Florovsky at the Theological Congress of Athens 1936. The second part emphasizes the development of patristic studies in Romanian Orthodox theology, based on the neo-patristic synthesis. In the next part of the paper, I have analysed how the academic theology in Romania discovered the Philokalia and how it was translated by Fr Dumitru Stăniloae. This translation of the Philokalia led to a revival of Romanian Orthodox academic theology.

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