Sandu tudor, the mentor and the catalyst of spiritual movement from antim. The evolution of association „burning altar” Cover Image

Sandu tudor, the mentor and the catalyst of spiritual movement from antim. The evolution of association „burning altar”
Sandu tudor, the mentor and the catalyst of spiritual movement from antim. The evolution of association „burning altar”

Author(s): Carmen Ciornea
Subject(s): Pastoral Theology, Eastern Orthodoxy, Sociology of Religion
Published by: Fundatia Română pentru Inteligenta Afacerii
Keywords: Sandu Tudor; Burning Altar; Leather; Spiritual movement; Orthodox resistance; Atheist communism;

Summary/Abstract: The present paper, as announced in the title, aims to treat the Association „Burning Altar”, legal stage spiritual movement whose mentor is Sandu Tudor. The „Burning Altar” movement was a group of some of the most important intellectuals (theologians and laity) of the era that, given the deep ties of friendship between them, come together around common spiritual pursuits. The catalyst was Sandu Tudor. Ostracized under communist totalitarianism, both secular intellectuals and clerics were aware of their duty to discover the deep spiritual levels of Christianity to provide a possibility of human survival as a person in the face of aggression of an aberrant modernity. In our attempt to reconstruct a truthful image of „Burning Altar”, of that time, we conjunct the documents from the archive C.N.S.A.S. with memoir literature but also with the interview of the only person who,nowadays, can testify about what the prayer of the heart meant for students, but also for „elders” integrated in this spiritual movement - Father Nicolaie (Nicholas) Bordasiu.

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 37
  • Page Range: 415-420
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Romanian
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