BISERICA, PUTERE SI CULTURA: BIOGRAFIILE EPISCOPILOR TEOFIL SI ATANASIE ANGHEL
CHURCH, POWER AND CULTURE: BIOGRAPHIES OF BISHOPS TEOFIL AND ATANASIE ANGHEL

Summary/Abstract: This article dedicated to bishops Teofil and Atanasie is part from a collaboration, within the Research programme Unirea religioasa a unei parti a românilor ardeleni cu Biserica Romei (Religious union of a part of Romanians from Transylvania with the Church of Rome), on the agreement between „1 Decembrie 1918” University and „Pro Oriente” Foundation from Vienna. Within the context of researching and interpreting history of Romanians from Transylvania from after the middle of the XVIIth century, beginning from the rapport between State – Church and the syntagm power-culture, in the direction of three coordinates – identity, ideology and representation – are presented and valorized stages and moments from life and activity of bishops Teofil and Atanasie, in the service of the Church and Romanians from Transylvania. If we agree with a certain historiographic formula, according which Religious Union of a part of Romanians from Transylvania with the Church of Rome conferred them the quality of instrumentum regni, then it is proper to report the moment of Teofil (? – 1697) to the effective debuts of the Union, and ending – on the whole – of this difficult process is reported to ruling of Atanasie Anghel (? – 1713), during whom cultural and political demands of Romanians from Transylvania refine, until a certain point of the fight, preparing Romanian society from Transylvania for the moment of Inochentie Micu-Klein, with the sum of national and political demands. As a matter of fact, Religious Union of a part of Romanians from Transylvania with the Church of Rome, in the spirit of the Synod from Florence, on the line of a congruence between eastern and western civilization of Europe, had as ideological and pragmatical base two coordinates: preserving ancient tradition, that is return to Church of Rome (on the line proposed byGherontie Cotore) inclusively acknowledging the Church of the Romanians from Transylvania together with their religion among the acknowledged denominations and their acceptance amongst privileged nations from the political system of the Transylvanian principality. From this view of research and historical interpretation the biographies of bishops Teofil and Atanasie Anghel must be understood, within their essential stages and moments.

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