Comunicarea credinței prin comuniune. Părintele profesor Dumitru Stăniloae – ilustru teolog al comuniunii
Communication of faith through communion. Father Professor Dumitru Stăniloae - illustrious theologian of communion

Summary/Abstract: The purpose of the present article is that of highlighting the communication of the faith through communion, this being a central focusing point in the writings of Priest Dumitru Stăniloae. In order to achieve this, we have analyzed a vast part of His Holiness’s writings, aiming to offer an over allview on the recurrence of the concept of faith’s communication through communion, in his theological work. Thus we have ascertained the omnipresence of this relentless urge of coming back to Christ, of believer’s self-situating in the frame of the Church, in the communion of love, and in the together-working with Christ and with the Holy Spirit. Father Stăniloae insists, time and again, upon the fact that we cannot be saved in isolation, but only within the communion and within the community of the Church, having as ideal the supreme model of communion of love of the Most Holy Trinity. The purpose of the ma n’s earthly life is to work the commandments within the Church’s community and communion, so that to set himself free from the sin’s and egotism’s prison, and to becometransparent to Christ and to the Holy Spirit, and thus, through the work of the savior grace and through godlike condescendence, to be found worthy of adoption and deification, respectively to be saved. The general conclusion we have drawn consequently to this study, is that the notion of communion is fundamental to the theological work of Priest Dumitru Stăniloae, and the communication of the faith within the Church’s communion is the only possible way.

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