The Exigencies of Doctrinal Preaching in the Thinking of Father Ilarion V. Felea (1903-1961). Notes to the Volume of Sermons Duhul adevărului
The Exigencies of Doctrinal Preaching in the Thinking of Father Ilarion V. Felea (1903-1961). Notes to the Volume of Sermons Duhul adevărului

Summary/Abstract: In this study, I highlighted the homiletic dimension of the theologian Ilarion V. Felea’s work. I also highlighted the steps taken by Ilarion Felea until he argued and expressed a dogmatic sermon of the Church in connection with Scripture and Church Liturgy. I have shown how Ilarion Felea delimited himself from the moralizing sermon and he used the book of sermons called Cazania. Father Felea’s concern for renewing the content of the sermon was also argued from the perspective of the challenging context for the faith and life of the Orthodox Church in the interwar period: the expansion of atheistic and secularizing concepts that led to ignorance and indifference to the essence of faith and the practice of Christian life and the virulent actions of neo-Protestant groups that sought to proselytize new followers from Orthodox communities. Undoubtedly the path of father Felea from Cazania to the book of sermons Duhul Adevărului represents an important page in the history of homiletics in Romania.

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