LECTIO DIVINA ÎN TRADIŢIA CREŞTINISMULUI APUSEAN ŞI RĂSĂRITEAN
“LECTIO DIVINA” IN THE WESTERN AND EASTERN CHRISTIAN TRADITION

Summary/Abstract: “Lectio divina” in the Western and Eastern Christian Tradition. The spiritual reading of the Holy Bible in the ecclesial community received, in Roman-Catholic Western Christianity, the name lectio divina. This spiritual exercise is not an exclusive feature of the Roman-Catholic tradition, being observed from the first two centuries of Christianity, while the Fathers of the Western and Eastern Churches often spoke about the use of biblical readings in the spirit of prayer, in the ecclesial environments. This study initializes an introduction to the way in which patristic, contemporary, Catholic and Orthodox theologies present this spiritual exercise. The study concludes with the observation that internalized reading of the Bible with a special stress on a histological, Trinitarian, and ecclesiologic lectio divina leads to spiritual understanding, which leads to prayer, which, in turn, enables a mysterious and personal communion with the divine Logos Who speaks in the Scriptures, offering Christianity the deep and true understanding of the Sacred Bible.

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