Loc de cinste pentru monahul Nicolae Steinhardt în omiletica românească
A Place of Honor for the Monach Nicolae Steinhardt in Romanian Homiletics

Summary/Abstract: This text is an attempt to present a less studied dimension of the Nicolae Steinhardt’s personality, that of elite Orthodox preacher, which had a great impact both on the people living in or visiting the Rohia monastery in the times past and on those that read the beloved volume of sermons-essays Giving, You Shall Receive [Dăruind vei dobândi]. The author considers that one cannot build an objective image of monach Nicolae’s homiletic work based solely on texts and bibliography; one also needs to turn to good account the testimonies of those who knew him directly. This is the reason why the author chooses to start a pilgrimage to Rohia, visiting all the places and objectives that once were in relation with the preacher: the church, the hermitage, the library, and the tomb, and then goes to Sighetul Marmaţiei and visits the Sighet Memorial, especially the by-then cell 43, consecrated to the memory of the Romanian writers detained on political grounds, where Nicolae Steinhardt is presented as a “case study”. Based on the sermons in the volume, on direct accounts and critical references on behalf of important intellectuals, father Gordon concludes that Nicolae Steinhardt has a place of honor in Romanian homiletics and that Giving, You Shall Receive is a fi rst-hand resource for the contemporary preacher

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