Keywords: Église; Synaxis; Le nouvel Israël.
Le nouvel Israël dans la „maison de Dieu”. La conscience que les événements sacramentels et liturgiques que l’Église célèbre dans des édifices spécialement consacrés à ce but, a son origine à l’époque apostolique étant liée aux ressorts du patrimoine spirituel qui conditionnent purement et simplement la rédemption des hommes. Entre les deux signes expressifs du mystère de l’Église – le temple matériel et le temple vivant de l’assemblée des croyants –, le premier comme importance et, on pourrait le dire, le seul essentiel, reste l’assemblée (Synaxis) ou la communauté de ceux qui croient en Christ. C’este précisément cette réalité personnelle qui détermine et justifie l’existence de l’édifice du culte. En effet, Ecclesia en tant que Corps du Christ précède et en même temps crée le temple matériel. Tel but le cas à l’époque de l’Exode aussi: tout d’abord se coagula la communauté d’Israël, avec ses hiérarchies familiales et avec ce complexe de normes juridiques ou règles de vie qui, conjointement avec la Loi, ont eu la mission d’être „le pédagogue vers le Christ” (Galates 3, 24), et ce n’est qu’après que fut montée le Sainte Tente en tant qu’espace consacré à l’assemblée des israéliens en vue de leur participation aux actes du culte prescrits par la Loi. La Synaxe ou l’assemblée du culte de l’Église este l’espace spirituel où se réalise la communion de ceux qui sont née „d’eau et d’Esprit” (Jean 3, 5) et où l’on met en pratique tout le système de relations interpersonnelles par laquelle s’exprime la spiritualité évangélique. Et le centre et le moment culminant de la Synaxe ecclésiale est l’Eucharistie célébrée dans la „maison de Dieu”. Tout événement sacramentel et liturgique a comme base et comme point de départ la constitution de la Synaxe ou l’assemblée du Corps mystique du Christ dans propre „maison de prière”. Etant donné ce fait les assemblées liturgiques l’Église constituent le cadre idéal pour le développement de relations interpersonnelles accomplies dans l’horizon „de la foi agissant par l’amour” (Galates 5, 6). Ce qui signifie que ces relations dépassent les limites de n’importe quel conditionnement social et de toute nécessité biologique.
More...Today Banat appears as an ethnic, cultural and religious mosaic, due to the policy pursued in the Middle Ages by the Hungarian kings who aimed to catholicize the province and organized a Catholic diocese. In the eighteenth century, after the conquest of Banat by the Habsburgic Empire, Mercy’s plan was put into practice and they realized significant settlements, which led to consequences at the economic, political and cultural level and led to a strengthening of Catholicism in Banat.
More...Keywords: consumerism; Europe; challenge; New Testament; Old Testament; doctrine
In this brief discussion of a complex subject, it is my intention to review the pattern of discipleship in relation to money commended by the New Testament; secondly, we need to take account of the new circumstances relating to money which separate us in twenty-first century Europe from the economic world of the New Testament; thirdly, we shall examine what has been termed ‘the new consumerism’; fourthly, it is necessary to consider arguments which suggest that a simple denunciation of consumerism is not the answer; and finally, I shall argue that any Christian response to the economic circumstances in which we now live must include wisdom, simplicity of life and joy.
More...Keywords: Lille; The Superior School of Journalism; “Reşiţa”; cultural intermediary; travel memorial; Ecole Supérieure de Journalisme; intermediar cultural; memorial de călătorie
Intellectuals in Banat have cultivated themselves under the influence of German-speaking cultural environment for a long time. Few were those who looked to Latinity, though. George C. Bogdan was among them. He studied in France and then tried to become an intermediary by providing information from the two countries with the help of articles and conferences. His contributions represent an important moment in the history of Romanian-French relations.
More...The author realizes a rigorous geological (petrographic) study upon some epigraphic monuments (four sarcophagi and one votive altar from the Roman period (II-III centuries A.D.). They belong to the cultural patrimony of the museum and are exposed in the permanent exhibition of the institution (in the Lapidarium sector). The study establishes the nature and the origin of the lythical material from which these important historical vestiges were carved.
More...Keywords: Mărgăritare; restoration; conservation state; wooden covers; calf skin
The article presents the binding restoration treatment applied to an old book with great damages. Mărgăritare has a great historical and documentary value and belongs to the collection of the Metropolitan Church of Banat library.
More...Keywords: The Psalter; bind restoration; conservation state; damage; cover
The present essay introduces the bind and cover restoration for the book Psaltirea Sf. Proroc şi Ţar David, from the old book collection of the Timişoara Banat Museum library. This book was printed in the year 1705, at Maghiler, using black and red ink and written in Cyrillic font.
More...Keywords: Molitvelnic; old book restoration; Cyrillic font; empirical restoration; damage
The present essay introduces the restoration procedures performed for the book Molitveanic, from the old book collection of the Timişoara Banat Museum library. This book was printed in the year 1782, at Râmnic, using black and red ink. It was written in Cyrillic font. The essay comprises a short description of book, the description of the conservation state and the restoration phases. The restoration was complex because the volume had physical, mechanical, chemical damages and old empirical restoration. It required the restoration of each and every page due to the physical and mechanical, chemical and biological damages.
More...Keywords: Transylvania; Romanian Schools; Confessional Education; Priests Training; Seminars and Faculties of Theology;
The orthodox theological education from Transylvania finds its origins in the first half of the nineteenth century, although, descending on the thread of time, fierce initiatives of this kind, preparing the future priests and teachers of the Church, three major Romanian historical provinces. On the other hand, the courses of the first elementary schools themselves were, at their beginnings, after a known expression of time, "in the porch of the churches". As the whole Church was the one who spurred the opening, first of all, of the first pedagogical schools and of the first secular higher education institutions: the Romanian Gymnasiums (in Transylvania and the western parts of the country, with a few decades ago outside the Carpathian arch).
More...Keywords: Contemporary Romanian Literature; reviews; Suceavă; Pilchin;
A collection of books reviews: Bogdan Suceavă „Republica”, Maria Pilchin „Realitati poetice in zigzag”, Monica Rohan „Translucid”, Păun Ion Otiman „Almăjul”.
More...Keywords: Catholicism; spirituality; introduction; Oxford University press; theology;
This is a book review of:Gerald O’Collins, Catholicism. A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2017, 168 p.
More...Keywords: Mircea Gheorghe Abrudan; Ioan Muntean; Dumitru TOmoni, Vasile M. Zaberca; Banat; Great Union;
Book review of:Ioan Munteanu, Dumitru Tomoni, Vasile M. Zaberca, Banatul şi Marea Unire. Bănăţeni la Alba-Iulia, Timişoara, Editura Partoş, 2018, 626 p.
More...Keywords: St. Sebastian; Titian; Averoldi Polyptych; martyrdom; iconography;
“St. Sebastian” painting in the Brukenthal European Art Gallery in Sibiu (inv. 1202) proves to reproduce the first version of the martyrdom of “St. Sebastian”, painted by Titian in 1520 (version considered lost since the end of the 17th. century). Since ca 1520, there are still preserved a few preparatory drawings for the final panel depicting “St. Sebastian”, part of the Polyptych of Resurrection (also known as “Averoldi Altar”, after its commander’s name). The altar was intended to be placed in the Basilica church of Santi Nazzaro e Celso in Brescia, and was dated and signed by Titian in 1522. There are obvious concordances, and some differences between the first version of “St. Sebastian” painting – documentary described –, and his representation on the final panel of the altar in Brescia, items that we analyze in the current study in relation to the painting of “St. Sebastian” from Sibiu.
More...Keywords: culture; scientist; ethnographic question; encyclopedism;
Brilliant scientist and academic, gifted both for the exact sciences and the human sciences, Traian Lalescu remains more than an excellent mathematician. Interested in the elegance of ideas and the logic of demonstration, he symbolized the figure of the exuberant and charismatic teacher, a founder of the Romanian school.In this context, our approach reveals the scientific activity of Traian Lalescu in the pages of the prestigious Parisian magazine "La Roumanie".
More...Keywords: Nicolae Popovici; Teodor Savu; patriarch Justinian Marina; Theological Academy; clerical exile; anti-communist resistance;
The memoirs of former political prisoners continue to offer valuable information about topics of particular importance for understanding the recent past in Romania. Such an example would be Deacon Teodor Savu, a prominent Orthodox cleric from Bihor area. The manuscript that we edit sketches the picture of Teodor Savu’s theological evolution in Oradea and Chernivtsi, his activity as a professor at the Theological Academy with some important geopolitical changes caused by the loss of northwestern Transylvania and the establishment of communism as background. Perhaps the most important event described in these pages is Teodor Savu’s taking part in the attempt to bring some orthodox hierarchs to Paris, where a clerical resistance was being established. The failure inevitably led to the priest’s arrest, followed by a whole series of hardships caused by the actions of the communist political police. We have focused on this issue by studying various documents in the CNSAS archives and we have been able to emphasize the attempt of the Romanians in exile to bring Bishop Nicolae Popovici of Oradea among them.
More...Keywords: Jelena Anđelković Grašar; Femina Antica Balcanica;
Review of: Jelena Anđelković Grašar, Femina Antica Balcanica, Arheološki Institute, Ed. Evoluta, Belgrade, 2020, 281 pag.
More...Keywords: Costin Feneșan; The sources of Horea's revolt;
Review of: Costin Feneșan (edit.), Izvoarele răscoalei lui Horea. Seria A. Diplomataria – vol. XII „Lumea lui Horea” în Banat și la sud de Carpați, Ed. Academiei Române, București, 2020, 351 pag.
More...Keywords: roman fort; landscape archaeology; topo survey; non-destructive archaeology; archaeological prospection; woodland archaeology;
This paper reports the non-invasive research on the archaeological site in Cornuţel. The Roman fort, located deep in the woodland, is not visible in the freely accessible remote sensing data, i.e. maps, low-resolution digital surface models, and aerial and satellite imagery. We present here the results of a topo survey in and rendered high-resolution topographical models of the fort. The research was conducted in March 2015, as a part of the “Tibiscum Project” – a Polish-Romanian research project, funded by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education in Poland within the Diamond Grant program . Based on the results of the survey along with the analysis of previous materials, we have established that the earth and timber fort measured 45 x 45 m and it was located in the vicinity of the roman road between villa rustica from Brebu, excavated by Ovidiu Bozu, and the large castellum from Tibiscum-Jupa (the present day Archaeological Reservation).
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