Ţările Române şi disputele în jurul dogmei primatului papal (secolul al XVII-lea)
The Romanian Principalities and the Dispute around the Papal Primacy Dogma (the 17th century)

Summary/Abstract: Papal primacy, together with the issue of the Eucharist, held an important place in the theological disputes between the East and the West in the seventeenth century. Even though the eastern argumentation did not innovate, in points of exegesis, beyond the anti-unionist positions formulated after the council in Florence, the ways in which these disputes took place, their areas of distribution and the groups taking part in the debate were various. Although the lines of the magisterium in the Testimonies of the Orthodox Faith kept an almost neutral reserve in the question of papal primacy, the emblematic figures of Eastern theology of Greek expression invested themselves in polemical writings and discrediting campaigns, openly endorsed by native princes and scholars. Their European echo carried the name of the Romanian Principalities beyond the borders of traditional diplomatic relations. Moreover, the question of papal primacy, beyond the theological exercise, stimulating in its turn in points of reasoning, argumentation and terminology, raised two important issues: legitimacy and the denominational borders of Europe. The discourse on papal primacy – in dialogue or polemics – launched an intellectual dynamics fertile in the building of cultural identity, and fully participating in the global process of denominational affiliation, characteristic of seventeenth-century Europe. Set against the people and ideas invoked in these pages, the following century appears dominated by silence and mutual ignoring. Denominational stands once formulated, a new horizon of change would appear in Romanian society: social and political reforms.

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