Naţiunea şi ortodoxia. Repere politice la Nae Ionescu
Nation and Orthodoxy. Political Highlights to Nae Ionescu

Summary/Abstract: The study named “Nation and Orthodoxy, Political Highlights to Nae Ionescu”, represents a subchapter of the Doctor’s degree project, named Romanian political theology. It is an oration analysis, 1918 – 1941. This study establishes itself as an excerpt of the first chapter of the examination for a doctor’s degree (PhD thesis), called “Theology and organic intellectuals of the right wing – semantic dimensions of a discontinuous relationship”. The theme proposed within this article unloads, from the historical point of view, one of the directions of the PhD thesis, meaning the analysis within the theological oration, having the political function of historical concepts / reality – Orthodoxy and nation. Per the theological oration with political function, that symbolical universe stands out; it is a universe that coagulates around some public personalities, works, published works and themes. The study analyzes the report and the connection between the two historical concepts / realities – Orthodoxy and nation in the oration of an influent Christian philosopher of the interwar period, who was a promoter of the Romanian Orthodox Church’s values, thinker and journalist, Nae Ionescu. Thus, the text suggests the reading inserted in a zeitgeist of the époque that points out both the ideological and theological consistence of nation and Orthodoxy concepts, in the works of the above mentioned philosopher. At the same time, the article aims to decrypt the moment and evolution of the Orthodoxy ideological instrumentation in the Romanian political and cultural field, during the interwar period. The decryption of this type of Orthodoxy ideological instrumentation and also the philosopher’s relationship with the leaders’ projects or the political radicalism, establishes itself as a fertile direction of historical research. The novelty and originality of this historical step consists in an interdisciplinary approach of the subject. The urge to the new political history, to the fascism and nationalism theory, the history of ideas and the history of the Romanian press, outlines a holistic-historical perspective. Within the study I used edit sources, such as Theology – The complete works of religious publishing, managed by Dora Mezdrea, Deisis, Sibiu, 2003; or I reviewed articles published in Cuvântul newspaper, from 1926 and European Idea and Predania magazines.

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