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Theological ideas of Nichifor Crainic and their relevance for his political activity
Theological ideas of Nichifor Crainic and their relevance for his political activity

Author(s): Iuliu-Marius Morariu
Subject(s): Political Theory
Published by: Editura Lumen, Asociatia Lumen
Keywords: theology; interwar period; Legionary Movement; Gândirea journal; Christianity;

Summary/Abstract: mportant and, in the same time, controversial personality of interwar period and the later one, Nichifor Crainic was in the same time poet, theologian, philosopher and politician. He published many articles, book reviews, chronicles, meditation and theological studies in books and journals like Gândirea or Ramuri (the first one founded by him). In the same time, he was the first professor of mystical theology in a Romanian Faculty of Theology, the one of Bucharest. His theological ideas are still relevant today for the theological space and this make them to be analysed, referred to and quoted. In the same time, some of them have influenced his political attitude, making them to become exponential for Romanian Nationalism during the interwar period, to see, as others (for example Nae Ionescu) of being Orthodox as linked with national identity, and also to be closed with far-right movement during the aforementioned period, but also during the Second World War.

  • Issue Year: 09/2018
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 54-64
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: English