Religie și știință în opera Mitropolitului Alexandru Nicolescu
Religion and science in the work of bishop Alexandru Nicolescu

Summary/Abstract: Alexandru Nicolescu is better known as a Greek Catholic bishop and metropolitan, but he was also an interesting church writer. After studying in Blaj and Rome, he was a missionary in North America (in the USA but apparently also in Canada); returned to Transylvania, he worked as a teacher in Blaj.Alexandru Nicolescu was one of the few Romanian clerics in the Austro-Hungarian Empire or in the Kingdom of Romania at the beginning of the 20th century who had contact with North American civilization and had a thorough knowledge of English.In Nicolescu's writings we can detect this double influence: the rigor of theology of Western origin - as a result of his studies in Rome - and an apparent American "modernism", both raised on the Transylvanian Greek Catholic tradition. Certainly the model of bishop - or rather of the Christian that Nicolescu cultivated - was influenced by the Christian of the "New World".That is why his literary production was an original at the time of its appearance in the Romanian cultural space, with many elements of novelty in the theological approach to many problems of daily life. Probably this type of theological approach would have developed in the Greek Catholic Church in a certain specific direction if the rupture of 1948 had not intervened. All these details make us believe that Alexandru Nicolescu's writings are all the more interesting. for today's reader as they mark a moment of uniqueness in the history of Greek Catholic theological literature in Romania.

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