ANTIM IVIREANUL - INFLUENȚE ȘI CONFLUENȚE ÎN SPAȚIUL GEOCULTURAL SUD-EST EUROPEAN

Author(s): George Niculescu / Language(s): Romanian Publication Year: 0

Through its entire cultural, pastoral, typographic, religious, diplomatic and philanthropic activity, Anthim the Iberian is always a living example, but also a personality of rare complexity. It is distinguished by vision, European dimension and active involvement in improving the lives of others. To highlight his great role in the epoch, I will appeal to the term „soft power” invented by Joseph Nye in the book of the same name to describe the ability to attract and persuade through the power of cultural, religious, moral values, etc. Soft power is the ability to attract others by our force of persuasion. Seduction is always more effective than constraint, and values such as democracy and human rights are profoundly.

SURSELE FILOSOFICE ALE DIDAHIILOR SF. IERARH MARTIR ANTIM IVIREANUL

Author(s): ANA OCOLEANU / Language(s): Romanian Publication Year: 0

St. Anthim the Iberian was a great founder of Romanian culture. He was not only concerned with the sacred books but also with the accessibility of the Romanian people to the words of God. This has been done, among other things, through philosophy. The examples he gives from the wisdom and life of ancient Greek philosophers lead to a better understanding of Christian morality but offer the opportunity for believers to meet philosophy.

PATRU DOCUMENTE DE LA ANTIM IVIREANUL (1707-1716)

Author(s): Laurențiu-Ștefan Szemkovics / Language(s): Romanian Publication Year: 0

Cette présentation se propose de faire savoir quatre documents, écrits en roumain aux caractères cyrilliques, émis par l’Antim Ivireanul, évêque de Râmnic et puis métropolite de la Valachie (1708-1716). Les documents proviennent des Archives nationales historiques centrales de Bucarest, des fonds „Mitropolia Țării Românești”, „Episcopia Argeș”, „Episcopia Râmnic”, de la collection „Suluri” et sont chronologiquement présentés. La reproduction de ces documents est effectuée à la fin de la chaque transcription (faite au langage de l’époque) précédée à son tour d’un bref résumé. Un document est authentifié au grand sceau rond du métropolite imprimé à l’encre de Chine et un autre document est prévu, dans son frontispice, avec une composition héraldique impressionnante. Pour la description du sceau et des armoiries, nous avons appelé à la sigillographie et à l’héraldique.

REALIZĂRILE SFÂNTULUI ANTIM IVIREANUL LA RÂMNIC (1705-1708)

Author(s): Laurențiu Rădoi / Language(s): Romanian Publication Year: 0

Par son activité pastorale, impression et missionnaire à Râmnic et plus tard à Bucarest, St. Anthim a incarné le vrai berger qui met l’âme „pour ses brebis”, s’élevant au-dessus d’elle tous les hiérarques qui ont passé avant et après lui sur la banquette de la métropolitaine de la Valachie. En plus de livres imprimés, beaucoup d’entre eux en roumaine, s’est révélée pour être un bon gestionnaire de l’église, préoccupé par les besoins des fidèles et les prêtres dont il a passé. En plus de s’occuper du peuple romain, a contribué à restaurer, reconstruire et embellissement et même les temples de la construction du Saint, au moment qu’il a passé le diocèse. Documents à portée de main il nous s’asseyait sur son implication pour augmenter la richesse du primat du diocèse, par l’achat de terres, d’où elle procède avec des peintures et la réparation des églises, tandis que d’autres construisent au sol. Dans un signe d’appréciation d’activités et son sacrifice, notre Église l’a passé parmi les saints, célébré le 27 Septembre

MITROPOLITUL ANTIM IVIREANUL, MISIONARUL CULTURII TEOLOGICE ROMÂNEȘTI

Author(s): Florin-Mihai Iliescu / Language(s): Romanian Publication Year: 0

Saint Antim was the hierarch constantly sustained by Prince Constantin Brâncoveanu, but to the same extent by Metropolitan Teodosie Veştemeanul, both in the typographical activity and in the ascension of the ecclesiastical steps, as follows: abbot, episcope, metropolitan. All the skill and all the knowledge that he has accumulated during his life as a slave, but also within the Ecumenical Patriarchate, he put them in the service of the church culture and the Romanian faithful who received it with all the affection.

SFÂNTUL ANTIM IVIREANUL ȘI LOGOSUL DESĂVÂRȘIRII MORALE ÎN VIAȚA COMUNITĂȚII

Author(s): Vasile Gogonea / Language(s): Romanian Publication Year: 0

Născut pe meleagurile de tainică legendă ale Georgiei, instruit la Constantinopol și având o biografie de excepție în lumea ecleziastică răsăriteană, apreciat ca un dăruit și neobosit ostenitor pentru aproape un sfert de veac în Ţara Românească, Sfântul Ierarh Martir Antim Ivireanul ocupă un loc de cinste în calendarul sfinților cu inima curată, pentru că numele său e scris cu litere de aur în cartea nemuririi jertfelnice a istoriei noastre naţionale şi al slujirii bisericeşti

MOȘTENIREA SPIRITUALĂ A ANTIMULUI: MODELUL „RUGULUI APRINS”

Author(s): Dragoş Ursu,Ioana-Zoia Sandu (Ursu) / Language(s): Romanian Publication Year: 0

The Burning Bush Movement at the Antim Monastery represented a unique case of symbiosis between laic intellectuals and monasticism, which promoted a spiritual form of anti-communist resistance centred on the practice of the Prayer of the Heart. The activity of the “Burning Bush of the Mother of God” Association during the mid-1940s consisted in weekly conferences on various subjects of theology and apologetics. Debates were doubled by participation in religious services and prayer, which created both a specific spiritual ethos and functioned as a missionary coordinate. While exploring the missionary and monastic ethos belonging to the “Burning Bush”, the paper attempts to inquire the validity and importance of such a model to nowadays monasticism.

Tryptyk rzymski Jana Pawła II jako forma tzw. theologia fabulosa. Glosy do dyskusji o metodologii badań

Author(s): Jakub Z. Lichański / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

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Proroczy głos soboru w sprawie islamu

Author(s): Alfred Marek Wierzbicki / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

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U podstaw problematyki narodu. Perspektywa ekumeniczna

Author(s): Andrzej Piotr Perzyński / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

JHWH jako Bóg miłosierny w Księdze Wyjścia 34,6-7 w ujęciu narracyjnym i teologicznym

Author(s): Sebastian Smolarz / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The aim of this article is to present various perspectives on the problem of mercy of God in the ontext of his justice. The first part briefly relates actions following the Golden Calf incident in Ex. 32, which led to the declaration of attributive formula in 34:6-7. Then, a fuller consideration is given to the etymology of rahûm, the first of seven positive adjectives describing YHWH’s character, which in a sense is principal. It is observed that the presence of two negative descriptions relating to the character in Ex 34:7 probably safeguard against a claim that God can become indifferent to justice in showing mercy. The third section presents a table which shows the way attributive formula is used in various traditions of the Hebrew Bible. It discloses that the predominant accent in those is on mercy. The following part presents a few theological perspectives which may help to unravel a mystery of merciful God, who at times is pictured as violent and unjust in his judgements. A consideration is given to the notion of evolutionary nature of divine revelation. Two proposals are given, i.e. that it is worth‑considering a collective view of God’s people as one persona who experiences some loss in her body in order to receive mercy, and that it may be that in order to fully grasp the bright of divine mercy, first one needs to see the dark of judgement. Finally, it is offered that viewing God as a passionate Divine Husband who faced adultery on the part of his wife can aid in understanding his burning anger which leads to violence. Yet, at the same time it is argued that the principle of imitatio Dei would be unacceptable for modern men in such a context (physical abuse of the woman by her husband). In conclusion, it is reaffirmed that accent in Exod. 32–34 is on divine mercy. But this mercy cannot be taken as a given but should be regarded as God’s act of free will.

Miłosierdzie w poglądach Cypriana z Kartaginy

Author(s): Stanisław Ciupka / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Mercy is one of the main thread of the history of Christianity. This topic is also important to write down the Fathers of the Church. An important period in the evolution of the concept of charity in the Christian life was a historical time in which to live and work came to the bishop of Carthage, or holy Cyprian. The approach to the problem of mercy was more practitioner than a theorist, and therefore in his works, we see how the historical realities shaped his view of the virtue of mercy.

Miłosierdzie względem ubogich w nauczaniu Jana Chryzostoma i aktualność jego przesłania dzisiaj

Author(s): Angelika Maria Małek / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

John Chrysostom was teaching exceptionally often about poverty and relationships between rich and poor people – besides a radical condemnation of the oppression and injustice, he has ordered the alms and another works of mercy as necessary means of Salvation. His beliefs was rooted in the theological anthropology, which emphasized the dignity of man – who has rights as being created in the image and likeness of God. Teaching of this Church Father living at the turn of the 4th and 5th century in spite of civilization changes is still current and worthy of conducting an analysis.

Rozumienie miłosierdzia Boga w wybranych soteriologiach średniowiecza

Author(s): Jacek Kempa / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The notion of mercy entails the problem of its relation to justice. It has been a subject explored by many theologians. The problem is deepened especially in the field of soteriology. The article discusses selected conceptions of God’s mercy in the scholastic presentations of the saving significance of Christ according to Anselm of Canterbury, Peter Abelard and Thomas Aquinas. Generally posed problem has been profiled by raising a question about the difficulty of coherent understanding of the mystery of merciful God (“confronted with God”) and the nature of salvific impact of mercy on human being (“confronted with human being”). Thoughts of three authors presented in this way reveal three different notions of the nature and effects of God’s mercy.

Sakrament miłosierdzia w refleksji księdza Tadeusza Fedorowicza, spowiednika i kierownika duchowego Jana Pawła II

Author(s): Adam Raczkowski / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The specific form of experiencing God's mercy is the Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation. That is what John Paul II repeated many a time and what, in the bygone year, Pope Francis called to mind in his conversation with Andrea Tornielli («Mercy is God’s Name»). In our homeland such an example, quite little‑known, is undoubtedly pr. T. Fedorowicz, the perennial chaplain of the Institution for the Blind in Laski and the chaplain of the Franciscan Missionaries of the Helpers of the Cross, as well as the confessor and spiritual confidant of Karol/Charles Wojtyła, later Pope John Paul II. The following article is an attempt to remind of this charismatic confessor and spiritual leader and to recapture his reflections concerning the sacrament of forgiveness. The present reflection will consist of two parts. The first one will try to show confession in pr. T. Fedorowicz’s articles/speeches. The other one will focus on the confessor's most important characteristics (on the basis of the available correspondence between John Paul II and pr. T. Fedorowicz, as well as on the basis of the interview with pr. T. Fedorowicz).

Jezus Opuszczony jako objawienie miłosiernego oblicza Boga: refleksja w świetle pism Chiary Lubich

Author(s): Katarzyna Wasiutyńska / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Chriara Lubich’s (1920–2008) experience of the infinite God’s love towards a man is most completely expressed by Jesus’ cry on the Cross: “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” (Mk 15:34). Words drawn from Psalm 22 express the profoundness and radicalism of the Son’s Kenosis which is realized in the act of incarnation and salvation. However, the key to understand those is rather not the greatness of suffering, but the inconceivable vastness of love leading to Christ ‑ to the encounter and identification with the misery of human sin. This consideration, fitting into the Church’s Extraordinary Jubilee, is a look at the Forsaken through the lens of God’s mercy. Its starting point are the first years of the Focolari community when Chiara slowly discovered His peculiar nature ‑ her letters, published mostly in 2010 by an Italian publishing house Città Nuova and dated 1943–1949, are the witness of that time. A major part of this spiritual journey is also the summer of 1949 which opened a chapter of particular mystical light in Chiara’s life ‑ known as Paradiso ‘49. Further on, a question arises on the ways and message of merciful God’s revelation in Jesus Forsaken: on the possible path leading a man to the intimacy with the Father and on the status of sin and suffering in this context. The final part describes Chiara’s existential attitude which began in her experience: her going out to the world, the nature of her relationship with people and with the universe.

Miłosierny Samarytanin w refleksji teologicznej Josepha Ratzingera/Benedykta XVI

Author(s): Andrzej Lwowski / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

In his interview with Jaques Servais the pope Benedict XVI spoke in a very positive way bout the fact that pope Francis preaches so often about God’s mercy. Commenting on this pastoral method, he said that the story of the Good Samaritan is especially attractive for a modern man. According to him, it stems from the inner desire of the heart to meet the Good Samaritan who will take care of him and lead him to safety. In the end, this is a desire to experience God’s mercy and loving care. This article looks at other teachings of Joseph Ratzinger/Benedict XVI on the parable of the Good Samaritan. The pope invites us to set out on the way of forming our hearts by asking ourselves “How to live?” After cleaning up our relationships of love with God and with other people we should stop analyzing who do I own love and become neighbors to others. The process of shaping our hearts will be complete once our hearts become “the heart that sees”. Sees the needs of others and notices the spiritual poverty. In both of those situations the Christian who lives the program of the Good Samaritan will try to fulfill those needs.

Wybrane aspekty miłosierdzia w nauczaniu papieża Franciszka

Author(s): Przemysław Sawa / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

Contemporary times are the kairós of grace and Pope Francis is its prophet who gives an example of how to be a person of mercy by his words and actions. His teaching has a solid base in the Bible and theology, and fits into the theology of John Paul II and Benedict XVI. Another of its important aspects is its being grounded in humanism, human sensitivity and experience. In this way, spreading the truth about mercy carries a strong message and is an answer to the needs of contemporary people. Being the heart of the Gospel, acts of mercy are the center of life and mission of the Church. Thus, the announcement of The Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy, a time to experience God’s mercy through people, to show mercy towards one’s neighbors and to make people conscious about the necessity of mercy, is not a surprise. Mercy is one of the main motifs of Francis’ teaching. It covers topics such as: mercy as the key to understand Christianity, theological foundations of the truth about mercy, various dimensions of mercy, signs of mercy and mercy as present in the everyday life of the Church. Still, it all comes down to the importance of grace and of accepting God’s love which precedes, anticipates and redeems. God’s greatness allows justice and mercy to coexist and shows God’s omnipotence. Christians should take the example of God and the Son. It fits evangelization in its broad understanding and it shows itself in forgiveness, generosity, fighting against indifference, helping those in need and reaching out to people of different religions. The service of the missionaries of mercy, which has been prolonged for indefinite time, is a special sign of the mercy as taken up by the Church. Mercy should be also celebrated in the liturgy, especially in the sacraments of Eucharist, Penance and Holy Orders. There, mercy is celebrated as well as put into effect leading to the change of a baptized. In this way, God gives His love to His people, which is always first and sets no spiritual nor moral conditions. It also becomes necessary to stick to the Bible. Acts of mercy are also: evangelization, pastoral services (testimony, homily, catechism, biblical apostolate) as well deeds and works of mercy. Finally, a mission of giving hope, closeness and support is also vital as it gives an answer to suffering, lack of understanding and other life difficulties. Mercy should therefore be expressed in the co‑participation in others’ experiences.

Eucharystia „miejscem” kultu i doświadczenia miłosierdzia Bożego

Author(s): Stanisław T. Zarzycki / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The article indicates the necessity of combining the message of revelations given to Saint Faustine with an in‑ depth theological reflection and with the liturgy of the Church, i.e. the holy sacraments, in particular with the Eucharist. At the beginning it explains liturgical worship as a work of Jesus Christ, a reliable and merciful Priest, and of the people of God. It presents mercy as a ”real sacrifice” which must not be left out of the properly understood Christian worship. It then describes the Eucharist in historical terms as a sacrament of mercy in its fuller and fuller understanding. It analyses Mass orations on mercy aimed at introducing participants of the liturgy into the experience of the mystery of Redemption. It explains the notion of Christian spiritual experience and provides two examples of the mystic experience of the Eucharist as a sacrament of mercy (Saint Faustina Kowalska and Saint Vincent Pallotti).

Kilka uwag na temat charakteru i statusu miłosierdzia w nauce prawa finansowego

Author(s): Mateusz Langer / Language(s): Polish Publication Year: 0

The issue of mercy is still unexplored in the science of financial law. As a category from the sphere of axiology can lead to many complications, especially when trying to apply it directly to financial operations. The mercy phenomenon for many is so specific that it can not be understood without taking into account the religious order. Hence, some researchers need to delve into the theological heritage, to more clearly elucidate the reflection contexts, because they can provide inspiration to think in a slightly different paradigm. The goal of this article is to describe the problem of mercy on the grounds of financial law.