Keywords: poetic art; sacred; memoirs
The first part attempts to identify the circumstances of the configuration of the poetic spirit of Valeriu Anania, by relating to the personality and work of the two writers who represented declaratively an aesthetic reference: Tudor Arghezi and Vasile Voiculescu. The literary exegesis situates Valeriu Anania as poet at the antipodes of the paradigm of the Romanian religious poetry: as a descendent of Nichifor Crainic’s poetic art, as “the theologian almost always overwhelms the poet, in the sense that the writer cannot afford to lose the track of the religious education in order to create a metaphysics, indeed of Christian inspiration, but with various ways of interpretation, in the manner of Lucian Blaga or Tudor Arghezi, both severely reprimanded by theologians” (Petrescu 1998: 6), up to the opposite opinion: “I would not place him as a poet near Nichifor Crainic, but rather as descendent of Arghezi, who thus proves, similarly to Paul Valery that yet creation is a making, a skill which attracts by any means a mystique, an ineffable mystery” (Pintea 2001: 196). Valeriu Anania, albeit difficult to place as poet in a certain formula of history of literature or in the context of present-day poetry, seems to slide between the aesthetics of the two religious poets whom he met in his literary “apprenticeship”. He takes over the idea of poetic creation as skill from Tudor Arghezi, while from Vasile Voiculescu he takes over the idea of prayer and Eucharist through poetry. This is a blending that will melt in the retort of his own ars poetica, in a supreme effort of homogenising the contraries, a genuine feature of Valeriu Anania’s entire biography and work. The content of the memoirs reveals the fact that the fundamental affiliation of Valeriu Anania’s poetic art is of Arghezian origin: “the poet’s altar, where every night there was the frightening mystery of bread’s turning into word.” (Anania 1995b: 14). The poetical creation understood as a liturgy of the Christian ritual, the assimilation of the function of the poetical word into that of the secret Eucharist from the Christic body and spirit, will determine the configuration of not few of Valeriu Anania’s poetic arts, definitely the most accomplished segment of his poetry from an aesthetical point of view. We must remember two of the exegete Valeriu Anania’s statements. On the one hand, the religiosity of the Arghezian stanzas must be understood through “the communion with God’s unseen presence in the miracle of the written word. Unable to grasp the mystery, the poet assumes it.” (Anania 1995a: 157). On the other hand, the vision upon the poet creator Vasile Voiculescu: “The poet is, indeed, the creator of his own poetry, but he can also be the instrument through which the utterance of the Logos becomes articulated, sensitive, and communicative.” (Anania 1995c: 191) Valeriu Anania finds the mutual paradigm for both poets to whose poetic art he has confessed as disciple.
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More...Keywords: regulation; disciplinary; court; trial; status;
As for matters of internal discipline, our Church has applied, in time, canonical provisions from modern Romania imbedded with norms foreseen in Disciplinary Court and Trial Regulations in 1926 and 1949. They have been issued by the church authority in compliance with Laws of Cults and Church Statuses in 1925 and 1948-1949. The 1949 Regulation was updated several times and was still enforced until 2015. A number of 17 sense and shape provisions present in this article have been acknowledged from amendments brought by the Timişoara Archbishopric.
More...Keywords: Christian woman; ministration; deaconate; history; church;
Starting from the words of the metropolitan Callistos Ware, found in the work entitled “Man, Woman and the Priesthood of Christ”, who considers it necessary to distinguish “the signs of time” (Mt. 16,3), and be prepared to discover the dough in the Gospel, we will try to analyze, within this work, the place that the Christian woman occupied within the Church and show how valuable revitalization of some of the old ministrations would be. That is why the main subject of this work shall be the female deaconate and the possibility of its revival. The work shall be divided into two sections. One of them shall discuss the official positions held by women within the Church until the 13th century, while the other will reflect the issue of female deaconate and its current implications.
More...Keywords: heresies; holy spirit; consubstantiality; church;
In the second half of the 4th century, the Church was going to be shaken, again, by one of the most virulent heresies, supported by Macedonia, the Constantinople bishop and, later on, by his deacon, Maratoniu, who were, at this point, in denial of the divinity of the Holy Spirit, Its equality and consubstantiality with the Father and the Son. Prevalent at first in the Eastern parts, this heresy would quickly take over the entire Church, causing disunions and confusion among believers. Historical sources during the period remember arguers of the Holy Spirit under the name of pneumatomachians, Macedonians or marathonians.
More...Keywords: bishop Nicolae Ivan; funeral of Bishop Nicolae Ivan; bishop Roman Ciorogariu; Fr. Ioan
Important personalities of the Orthodox church in Transylvania, Bishop Nicolae Ivan (1855-1936) of Vad, Feleac and Cluj (1921-1936) proved to be not only a model bishop, of high morality, but also a scholar and a man with an obvious sense of civic and social responsibility; for these qualities, he was conferred the rank of honorary member of the Romanian Academy; among his achievements, we mention only those from Cluj: obtaining the current eparchial residence, building the Orthodox Cathedral of Cluj and the church “Saint Nicholas” in the same city, establishing the University Theological Orthodox Institute of Cluj, where he promoted representative teachers, opening the diocesan Printing House and founding the religious journal Renasterea etc. He passed away on February 3rd, 1936, and was buried on February 6th, 1936, in the crypt under the altar of the Orthodox Cathedral of Cluj; during his funeral, important laymen and clergy honored through their words the significant achievements of Bishop Nicolae Ivan of Cluj, considered as the most representative bishop of the Romanian Orthodox Church in the first decades of the twentieth century.
More...Keywords: etnoarchaeology; thrones; sanctuaries; functionality; interpretations
In this study the authors would like to extend throne notion with examples from religious life of Neolithic and Copper Age communities. Throne with its symbols is present starting with the earliest Neolithic horizons of Anatolia until center of Europe, in 7-5 millennia. We have analyzed some important discoveries related with monumental pieces from sanctuaries, as well as those discovered in community altar or domestic sanctuaries. These monumental pieces from sanctuaries reflect the place of the divinity or her representation in the sanctuary and their role in religious ceremonies. For many of the presented pieces we offer new hypothesis and opinions regarding their functionality. We also refer to some idols types that are sitting on thrones representing divinities or priestess that represent the image of the divinity.
More...Keywords: anonymous creator; hero; dramatic character; historical events; song.
Based on direct field research, our investigation intends to reflect the reaction and the description made by the anonymous creator, in his oral works, of various historical events, and also reflects the creator’s representations of tumultuous episodes, dramatic attempts, and outstanding life aspects that he lived and faced. In our study we treated fragments of the anonymous creations related to the First World War, which recall moments and circumstances of the slaughter outbreak and some information reflecting the historical reality. We debated then one of the most dramatic episodes linked to the Second World War - the concentration of girls to forced labor to Germany, to replace manpower ruined by men going to war. The focus is on the tragic consequences of the lives of women who lived this episode. Regarding the tumultuous events that stirred the imagination of the people, we analyzed songs depicting the tragedy lived by Aurel Vlaicu, the great Romanian aviation pioneer. Another episode full of drama, which we analyzed in our investigation is related to the floods in 1970. It reflects how were immortalized in popular creation the dramatic consequences of that event which had affected so many people. The investigation part of our research is dedicated to some dramatic aspects of the reality of life, especially the peasants’ life during the communist regime. We paid attention to the abolition of the Greek Catholic Church, with all the consequences on both believers and priests. We analyzed more extensively the suffering and humiliation brought on the peasantry by collectivization of agriculture in mountain areas, when peasants were confiscated their entire fortune. We gave proper space to the use of folklore as a means of propaganda to in support and glorification of communism.
More...Keywords: union; country; state; national; ideal
The complete adherence of the inhabitants of the Banat, with regard to the decisions made during the Great Union in Alba Iulia, on 1 December 1918, demonstrates the moral un-withered force of the Romanian inhabitants in this ancient part of the country. The wide participation, accompanied by a storming enthusiasm which expresses the will of the Romanian people to unite into a national state called Romania, were just a few of the requisites having accompanied the ideal of such high achievement.
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Prezentul volum strânge laolaltă o parte dintre comunicările studenților doctoranzi prezentate în cadrul Școlii Internaționale de Vară a Doctoranzilor Teologi (cunoscută sub abrevierea SIVDT 2019).Eveniment ajuns la a VII-a ediție, întrunirea științifică anuală, organizată de Școala Doctorală de Teologie Ortodoxă din Universitatea „1 Decembrie 1918”, este deja una dintre manifestările științificecunoscute și așteptate de către tinerii studenți doctoranzi din întreaga țară.
More...Keywords: politics; administration; medieval Banat;
Zoltan Iusztin, Politică și administrație în Banatul medieval, Academia Română, Centrul de Studii Transilvane, Cluj-Napoca, 2018, 345 p.
More...Keywords: communion;communication;
Prezentul volum strânge laolaltă o parte dintre comunicările studenților doctoranzi prezentate în cadrul Școlii Internaționale de Vară a Doctoranzilor Teologi (cunoscută sub abrevierea SIVDT 2019).Eveniment ajuns la a VII-a ediție, întrunirea științifică anuală, organizată de Școala Doctorală de Teologie Ortodoxă din Universitatea „1 Decembrie 1918”, este deja una dintre manifestările științificecunoscute și așteptate de către tinerii studenți doctoranzi din întreaga țară.
More...Keywords: Christian unity; theological dialogue; ecumenical activity
Since the Decree on Ecumenism (unitatis redintegratio) — promulgated on 21 November 1964 by the Second Vatican Council — provided only some general principles and instructions for the upcoming ecumenical activity of the Roman Catholic Church on 25 March 1993, Pontificium Consilium ad Christianorum Unitatem Fovendam published the Directory for the Application of Principles and Norms on Ecumenism. In the present study we analyse the text of the Ecumenical Directory of 1993 from the Orthodox perspective, which is animated by the honest desire to contribute to a better understanding of the ecumenical theology of the Roman Catholic Church among the Eastern theologians and canon law scholars, and, ipso facto, to bring a real contribution ad fovendam christianorum unitatem.
More...Keywords: Banat; Timisoara; Arad; Ortisoara; motorway; rescue excavation; archaeological field survey; pottery; Prehistory; Neolithic; Copper Age; Vinca; Banat culture; Roundel type of fortification;
This paper is focused upon a significant quantity of archaeological finds discovered in one of the archaeological surface surveys in the summer of 2010, during my participation at the Timișoara – Arad motorway rescue excavations, next to the village of Orțișoara. Special attention is drawn to the pottery for domestic usage which, after a comparative analysis with other findings from the surrounding area, were identified as part of the Banat culture, phase II. After a careful reflection upon the satellite images, the shape and gates positioning, the possible settlement could be seen as a rondelle type fortification. This type of settlement is mapped in different areas from Romania (Iclod, Portărești) as well as Germany, Austria, Slovakia, and Czech Republic. The multitude as well as the diversity of the finds (pottery, a possible small clay figurine and the lithic materials) is suggesting a much wider periodization starting from Middle Neolithic to the Late Neolithic and most probably early Bronze Age. As a result of human intervention trough agricultural activities as well as natural transformations, the presumed settlement was levelled. A prompt rescue excavation either through a systematic or extended archaeological prospection would be necessary and it would bring much more insight upon this kind of settlements in Banat and the surrounding regions.
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