„TABLELE LEGII PENTRU PREZENTUL ȘI VIITORUL NOSTRU”. PREDICA MITROPOLITULUI NICOLAE BĂLAN AL ARDEALULUI LA TÂRNOSIREA CATEDRALEI ÎNCORONĂRII DE LA ALBA IULIA
”The Law Tablets for our Present and Future”. Sermon by Metropolitan Nicolae Bălan of Transylvania at the Consecration of the Coronation Cathedral in Alba Iulia

Summary/Abstract: The sermon of Metropolitan Nicolae Bălan of Trasylvania at the consecration of the Coronation church of Alba Iulia on 8 October 1922 is a homiletical document of historical and spiritual value and best expresses the enthusiasm that animated the protagonists of the moment. In fact, Metropolitan Nicolae Bălan had been the main editor of the "Revista Teologică" (Theological Review) and professor of Theology at the Andreian Academy in Sibiu, an authentic Șaguna spirit and promoter of the culture of preaching. The Metropolitan's speech also reflects the relations between Church and State after the unification of 1918, when a Byzantine symphony was being created. Situated between historicism and the theology of history, Metropolitan Bălan's sermon inaugurated and highlighted a privileged place of memory, the Coronation Cathedral (1922), linked to the princely and royal past, and later, it would be he who would call it the Cathedral of Reunification (1948), after the tragic events that took place after the communist regime came to power. The centenary of the Coronation (2022) brings back the prophetic resonance of the words of one of the Metropolitan's sermons and the royal scent of the former cathedral.

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