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Addenda la Memorii

Author(s): Constantin Petrea / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 01/2017

The text is a chronic to the volume „Recollections of Metropolitan Bartolomeu Anania” (RenastereaPublishing, 2016) by Professor Mircea Gelu Buta. The amount of emotional stories, a confession,becomes an addenda to the Recollections, and wears, under the spell of the Metropolitan’s livingword, about the same stylistic garment. Although with many chronological dislocations, the bookhas a double merit: that of re-confi guring an era into the pages of the Recollections; and of capturingthe profi le of an intellectually and morally impressive man and hierarch.

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The Lost Antiquity and Permanent Present: Understanding of History in the "Western and Middle Eastern Tradition

Author(s): Kaspars Kļaviņš / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2017

Nowadays the Western mass media continue to explain many processes in the world (including the tragic events in the Middle East) "historically", linking them to a certain tradition, type of culture, etc. However, how important is actually the past in the collective consciousness of the Middle East? And to what extent historical identity is only an ideological construct of the West? The task of the article was to compare the place and meaning of history (and the past) in the intellectual tradition of the Middle East (Islam) and the West (Christianity). For this purpose, the historical method was used, and conclusions were made on the basis of historical reasoning. At the same time, hermeneutic approach of textual analysis was used when analysing religious texts, that can be interpreted differently, concrning sources related to specific religious and philosophical traditions.

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Miturile, cultele misterice, filosofia Greciei Antice, front comun pentru construirea artei de a educa

Author(s): Gabriela Fulvia Horobeț / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 3/2019

Originality, dynamism and elitism are the features that characterize the ancient Greece. Even the political and administrative domains point to this competitive characteristic aimed at overcoming challenges that will generate the best opportunities and solutions for Greece to achieve its most potential in those times. Thus, Greece evolves as a federation of states always racing to be the best at everything be it cultural, political, philosophical, scientific, economic, sports domains in order to ensure their country’s prestige. The religious dimension had a huge influence on Education that was cherished by the ancient Greeks. Myth and artistic instruction mutually influenced themselves, moreover, he training bettered, ennobled the mythological heroes and heroines humanizing them. Athenian education was the standard training model in all Greece and aimed at a noble life that of aristocrats who could permanently relate to the mythological high standards of legendaryGods found in the pre-classic age. In Greek society Education for men mainly targeted virility mixed with wisdom inspired by Homer’s ideal masculine type of hero who fitted the profile. The feminine archetype in the noble courts was essentially characterized by refined beauty due to the cultural model of distinguished manners, gentleness, sensitivity based on the chivalrous ideal woman always promoted in those times and the middle ages.

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Zalmoxis și practicile de dobândire a nemuririi potrivit textului lui Herodot

Author(s): Daniela Luminita Ivanovici / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 3/2019

The present study examines the passage from Herodotus Historiae IV, 93-96 where the Greek historian describes the Getaean god, Zalmoxis, and the practices connected with his cult. I will focus my research on two topics: the nature of Zalmoxis and the getic rituals of achieving immortality. Zalmoxis is resented as a man, as a daimon and as a god. In order to clarify this ambiguity, it is imperative to look at the Greek image of “Other”, and a t the projection of Thracians between the civilized Greece and a mythological North. As for the rituals regarding immortality, I`ll start with two rituals described by Herodotus: the sacrifice of a messenger, which was performed every five years, and thedescending of Zalmoxis into an underground chamber. This descent is assimilated with a journey in Hades, a practice connected with Greek mysteries. So, immortality was achieved in two ways: through human sacrifice, or through initiation into the mysteries discovered by Zalmoxis. Herodotus connects this initiation with Pythagora`teachings about metempsychosis. Archaeological discoveries unfold a certain believe in the survival of the soul after death in all Thracia. The findings show that the figure of Zalmoxis is partially constructed on the Greek representation about world. The information about his doctrine of immortality is real, since it exists not only among the Getae tribe, but also among other Thracian tribes.

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Az iszlámról, sztereotípiák nélkül

Author(s): / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 08/2020

Klaus von Stosch: Az iszlám mint kihívás – Keresztény megközelítések. Magyar Kurír Új Ember Kiadványok 2019. ISBN 9789639981751

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FAUSTUS. THE MYTHICAL MEMORY

Author(s): István Józsa / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2020

The figure and story of Faustus is part of the European cultural heritage, and as it usually, even inevitably happens with legends, it lives further in the adaptations of later periods and authors. It is mainly linked to Goethe’s name, his figure became well known and immortal in his works. Ever since Goethe, all authors – who respect themselves – in German literature must write a new Faustus, while in other nation’s literatures newer and newer paraphrases were born, which on their turn gave rise to further adaptations, and the scientific, aesthetic etc. literature also has gotten richer. However the canonized, more precisely, classicisized framework of interpretation is not transgressed by any of the newer writers and poets of the past centuries, moreover it is only the form of the legend that is rewritten – naturally with the aim of modernization. All of that as part of the literary heritage. As far as the problem of original sources is concerned: what can be regarded as a source and what is adaptation, which are the works that motivated writers, are just a matter of the preliminary work of the interpretation. On the other hand the problem that within the ancient, mythical tradition there is an original, ancient Faustus legend, does not raise any attention as that is “mere raw material”. The truth is ... that the beginning that has been preliminarily, yet directly definitory for centuries, is that original force that is given in the topic and thus it is difficult to bring it to the surface, preferably independently from the heritage that was built upon it. As far as the time dimension is concerned, we are searching in an undefineable, open past, moreover it is most probable that the legend itself is not entirely original, so to say, but it is the adaptation of a more ancient idea or topic. And by this its symbolism and hidden semantics lose their European characteristics.

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L’oeuvre de traduction de la Septante

Author(s): Stefan Munteanu / Language(s): French Issue: 9-12/2020

The various studies on the text of the Septuagint (LXX) tried, through the comparison of the variants which separated it from the Masoretic Text (MT), to provide for each book a “critical view” on the way the translators have been working. These studies indicate that inside every book we find a certain freedom in the choice of the method. From couple of examples, we are going to see in this article how the earlier translators of the LXX have used these various translation methods in a concrete manner all along their work. It will allow us to understand better why the differences that we find in the LXX in comparison to the MT are not all due to particular readings, nor of the translation mistakes and don’t come from the lack of knowledge or care of the translators.

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Chenoza lui Hristos şi chenozele zeilor păgâni: fond comun, forme şi finalităţi diferite

Author(s): Alexandru Nicolae Agignoaei,Gabriela Fulvia Horobeț / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 9-12/2020

The kenosis of the Christ and the kenosis of the pagan gods: common fund, different forms and purposes. Speaking about the different parallels between our Savior Jesus Christ and the gods of the pagan religions, the emphasis most often falls on the themes of conception, birth, baptism, miracles, sufferings, resurrections from the dead and ascension to heaven, all of which have in common the doctrinal and mythological concepts of ʺmessianismʺ and ʺsoteriologyʺ. However, although it does not appear in the foreground either in the field of comparative theology, but, unfortunately, in the field of postmodernist denigration of the Divine-Human Person of Christ by associating It to its identification and even to ʺplagiarismʺ with various pagan deities or with the founders of religions, the theme of kenosis, emptiness, desertion, humility of the deity until receiving a human form, is not, on a closer look, an exclusive factor of Christian origin. Even in the ancient pagan mythologies we find reflections of the concept of kenosis: Certain gods, for various reasons, either voluntarily change their initial state of divine splendor and omnipotence, or change it in a way that is often unintentionally harmful. The present research aims to analyze some of the most well-known such kenotic pagan examples, highlighting their common background with Christian kenosis, but at the same time emphasizing the different forms and purposes of the firsts versus the latters.

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The Economic Globalisation and the Religious Mutation in the Post-Industrial Society - The Pseudo-Religious Meaning of the Global Economy

Author(s): Stelian Manolache / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2017

Juxtaposing on a world that claims its autonomy in relation to God, the ideaof divinity being opposable to the modern concept of individual freedom, theeconomic globalisation is synonymous to a society, in a desacralizing process, rejects programmatically the three essential coordinates of the traditional Christianlife - based in the evangelical support: a. the confessing community, the divinehuman Church, based, supported and actualised by the principle of the apostoliccontinuity and of the Holy Ghost, bringing into the present liturgically and sacramental the sacrifi ce and the resurrection of Christ; b. the authentic spirituality,based on the complete and unaltered revelation of a Trinity God, refl ected by theHoly Gospel and the Holy Tradition - the base and the guarantee of the evangelicTruth; c. the eschatological expectation, the fi rm belief of the ontological fulfi lmentof the human being at the end of times in God. Starting from these considerations,our study aims to present some aspects related to alienating relation between theglobal economy and religion, during the progressive passage to the post-industrialphase of the economic development, together with its effects - the globalisationof the markets, infl uencing, as estrangement, the religious consciousness of thepostmodern man, as well as the manner he understands to believe and practice hisconfession. Our study will relate mostly to the aspects related to the Orthodox faith

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THE ORTHODOX RELIGIOUS PUBLICATIONS IN ROMANIA FROM THE CLASSICAL PRINTING TO ONLINE EDITIONS

Author(s): Nicolae Dascălu / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2020

A research on the rise and decline of the Romanian Orthodox religious media in the last 30 years cannot ignore the paradigm shifts caused by the emergence of new information and communication technologies and the global Internet network. The theological and spiritual contents do not instantly adapt to technological innovations and, therefore, the printing press remains a space for reflection in religious communication, between the opportunities and risks of rapid change. The transition of religious publications from print editions to online editions is necessary. However, by virtue of spiritual discernment, it requires a balance between tradition and renewal. This balance is kept due to three elements: the respect for the heritage of the printed sacred culture, the pastoral care for the older generations and the awareness of the responsibility for the unaltered transmission of the spiritual content of faith to the generation of digital natives.

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Sfântul Antonie cel Mare și paideia antică greacă

Author(s): Daniel Lemeni / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1-4/2021

In this paper we will discuss the relation between the spiritual wisdom of the desert, embodied in an exemplary manner by Abba Anthony the Great, and the Greek ancient paideia. We divided this paper in two sections. In the first section we will point out the theme of the spiritual guide in Late Antiquity from a double perspective: philosophical and Christian. Briefly, we tried to argue that the spiritual master in ancient philosophy was a prefiguration of the elder from early Egyptian monasticism. In the next section we placed antique education and the wisdom of the desert within a wider „competition” between the philosophical paideia and Christian ascesis. The thesis which we argued in this section considers that the true sage is no longer the antique philosopher, but elder ora abba in the Egyptian desert.

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Rolul și situația socială a femeilor în China daoistă

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Rolul și situația socială a femeilor în China daoistă

Author(s): Constantin Adrian Neagu / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 7-9/2020

Daoism emerged and developed in the territorial space of today’s China, and, although this philosophical tradition is considered extinct it managed to transcend borders in the last century and had a major global impact on the existing socio-political and religious systems. The art of arranging objects (feng shui), the ecology, the martial arts and Chinese medicine are all part of Daoism. Being born hundreds of years before Christianity, this religion brings a change to the traditional mentality with regard to the role and social situation of women. Starting from a patriarchal structure, in which the man was the pillar and leader of the household, and the woman a simple servant, Daoism succeeded to give women a special status. Thus, women were recognized not only as being equal to men, but, in some cases, they were considered superior in social and spiritual grounds, being the representatives of the yin force, the feminine principle of Dao. In this paper we observe the evolution of women’s position in China, as well as its impact on the encounter with the Western mentality and Christianity.

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Gué Sant. Continuidad religiosa prehispánica entre los zapotecos del Sur de Oaxaca

Author(s): Edgar Pérez Ríos / Language(s): Spanish Issue: 29/2019

This article deals with the origin of the stones known as gué sant (sacred stones or guardamontes), located in the Zapotec municipality of San Jerónimo Coatlan, Oaxaca, Mexico. These stones are usually located at the highest points of the hills. I will explain how until the last century these stones received offerings from farmers, hunters and healers, but due to the change in economic activities (now focused on coffee monoculture and forestry exploitation) these practices are now carried out less frequently. Currently guardamontes are undergoing a systematic destruction without any authority intervening in the case, but the stones are still there and are evidence of a religious continuity in this region.

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The Relation between the Consciousness and the Phenomenal World.

Author(s): Raghuraman Vasantharaman / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2021

The inquisitiveness about the relation between Consciousness and the phenomenal world has long existed in the area of philosophy and science. Philosophy tries to understand it subjectively whereas science tries to understand it materially. The nature of inquiry differs in both fields. In this paper, I will try to explain the relationship between Consciousness and the phenomenal world from a metaphysical aspect in the view of Advaitic Tenet. The Advaitic tenet is the essence of the Upanishadic explanation. The Upanishads generally form the last portions of the Veda and are the positive culmination of its philosophy.The consciousness and its relation to actions can never be understood only philosophically unless the power and form of will are properly understood. According to the Upanishads, the whole apparatus of perception is distinct from the Self (Consciousness) and is a manifestation of the physical. Since superimposition of the spirit and non-spirit on each other is the root cause of transmigration , we are unable to distinct ourselves (Consciousness) from the phenomenal world. Philosophy, religion, and ethics deal with only human beings. The Upanishads assert their independence in action but since they are limited in their apparatus of perception and expression, they are limited as well. Knowledge is the limiting factor. With the help of knowledge, we will be able to remove misery and bring a happy and relaxed state. Since we are identified with our body-mind complex, we are unable to remove misery and bring a happy relaxed state. This ignorance leads us to misery again. Here comes the significance of the scriptures. In this paper, I will try to define, how to discriminate Consciousness from the phenomenal world? I will define the nature of Consciousness and the phenomenal world according to the Advaitic tenet. The main topic i.e., the relation between Consciousness and the phenomenal world will be discussed according to the Advaitic tenet. The main purpose of knowing this is to realize Self Consciousness. Hence, this paper will be concluded by introducing the methods to discriminate the Consciousness and the phenomenal world and to realize Self Consciousness.

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The Influencer Role of Charismatic Renewal in the Spirituality of Post-Covid Society

Author(s): Beniamin Gavril Micle / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2021

In studies of charismatic movements, an essential aspect is often overlooked: any authentic religion requires assumption by faith, (to have no other Gods other than Me!). Or precisely this kind of mentality is promoted in the charismatic movements, of spiritual openness, which is willing to give credit to everything, is specific to culture, not religion. The religious dimension of the charismatic believer is of the syncretic type, unity in diversity, not of assumption, but based on the notion of option, and not on dogma, which leads him to donjuanism. Or it is precisely this danger that is underlined by St. Gregory Senaite, who warns us not to receive, if we see, anything sensitive or intelligible, inside or outside, whether it appears to you in the image of Christ, as an angel or a saint, or if it is shown to you as a light. For the mind itself has the ability to imagine things and can change, beware of receiving or rejecting those that do not know for sure come from the Holy Ghost.The problem of discerning between truth and lie, spiritual or devilish work, is the purpose of this scientific approach. The diverse plethora of charismatic offerings, as well as the interference with traditional Christianity, make us, like Pilate, ask: what is the Truth? or, rather, how can the Truth be distinguished among so many truths?

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Uloga čovjekovih misli u svakodnevnom životu u djelima Ronde Bern

Author(s): Haris Islamčević / Language(s): Bosnian Issue: 3/2020

Ovaj rad predstavlja autoricu Rondu Bern i njezina djela u kontekstu uloge čovjekovih misli u njegovome svakodnevnome životu. Posebna pažnja je usmjerena na njezino djelo Tajna budući da ono predstavlja temelj iz kojega je moguće konstruisati njezino učenje. Također, kroz ovaj rad je istražena recepcija Tajne u zemljama bivše Jugoslavije.

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ИДЕНТИТЕТОТ И МЕДИУМИТЕ: ТЕОРЕТСКИ АСПЕКТ

Author(s): Biljana Rajcinova-Nikolova / Language(s): Macedonian Issue: 13/2015

Identity is an umbrella term – a term which in different contexts and discourses gets a different sense. The motive of making this work is the desire, based on the (theoretical) determination (identification) of the terms identity and media, to determine their mutual/reciprocal relation. On the theoretical elaboration of the term identity we define two general models /concepts of identity: an essentialistic /a modern concept of identity and a non-essential/a constructivists concept of identity. The main (general) hypothesis which will cover the entire subject of our research is that: the identity is (a) construction and the media are tools for its temporary stabilization which is (directly) under the influence of the dominant discourse. The main purpose of this research is to investigate in which way, through the media can / can not be constructed the identity and to define, thus temporarily have its content and sense stabilized, i.e. to inspect the role and function of the media in the (re) creation and the stabilization of certain elements of the identity. The methodology which will be applied is the hermeneutic – interpreting the terms identity and media and their relations in different theoretical forwarding and different discursive practices. A possibility for realization of the set goal is forwarding the national (printed electronic) media, which not only strive to satisfy the demands of their current audience, but to create and progressively gain new audience.

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Family, education and social life. Seven inputs regarding the contemporary paradigm

Author(s): Benedict (Valentin) Vesa / Language(s): English Issue: 18/2021

In this article I will analyze the effects that the ideas propagated by the ‘sexual revolution’ of the 60s and 80s have on the family institution today. In my analysis I will consider two main effects: the first one deals with the vulnerability of axiology in the matter of philosophy of life and lifestyle. In this frame, the subjective takes the first place before the objective, experience before the essence, personal before the communitarian. The second element is a consequence of the first one and it refers to the crisis of authority and respect. By using excessive discourse regarding social equality, today's man seeks to get rid of everything that is considered an outdated lifestyle. From this perspective, I will analyze both the changes produced within the family (redefinitions, roles), as well as the behavioural changes and the way in which they could be improved. I will consider character education, emotional investment, forgiveness, and family life accompanied by prayer.

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Grija față de cei adormiți în ortodoxie reflectată în gândirea teologică și în practica liturgico-pastorală a părintelui profesor Nicolae D. Necula (18 martie 1944 — 3 septembrie 2017)

Author(s): Viorel Sava / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 9-12/2021

Our article deals with the theological thought of Father Nicolae Necula concerning Funeral services in the Orthodox liturgical tradition and several aspects which arise in the parish practice today. We started underlying the place of the work of Father Necula in the context of romanian liturgical research, continuing with some main aspects he focused on his research, ending with a few considerations traying to find out the main characteristics which define his theological work. Concluding we pointed out that in his writings Fr. Nicolae Necula, our great liturgist, is deeply rutted in the Orthodox doctrine, patristic thinking and liturgical experience and practice.

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