Nicolae Nicolescu, Viaţa cultului şi filosofia luiLumina Lina. Gracious Light, Nr. 2, 2012, pp. 11-22
Dan Anghelescu, Artele şi nostalgiile lor către muzică
Lumina Lina. Gracious Light, Nr. 2, 2012, pp. 27-32
Aurel M. Cazacu, Eminescu în apărarea lui Titu Maiorescu
Lumina Lina. Gracious Light, Nr. 2, 2012, pp. 39-48
George Liviu Teleoacă, Restituiri în anul dragonului
Lumina Lina. Gracious Light, Nr. 2, 2012, pp. 91-97
Dan Anghelescu, Mihaela Albu şi Terapiile memorieiLumina Lina. Gracious Light, Nr. 1, 2012, pp. 21-28
Constantin Miu, Motivul miresei în lirica lui Eminescu
Lumina Lina. Gracious Light, Nr. 1, 2012, pp. 44-47
Mihaela Albu, Limba - unic reper identitar în literatura exilului românesc (?)
Lumina Lina. Gracious Light, Nr. 4, 2011, pp. 55-61
Constantin Miu, "Ortodoxie şi românism" în concepţia lui Nichifor Crainic şi Dumitru Stăniloae
Lumina Lina. Gracious Light, Nr. 4, 2011, pp. 63-64
Aurelia Al. Constantinescu-Cazacu, Problematica românismului în viziunea lui Lucian Blaga
Lumina Lina. Gracious Light, Nr. 3, 2011, pp. 13-25
Nicolae Nicolescu, Taina cultică şi slujirea bisericească. Definire hristologică şi antropologică (II)
Lumina Lina. Gracious Light, Nr. 2, 2011, pp. 13-16
Daniel Gligore, Legăturile Mitropoliei de la Vicina cu Ţara Românească
Lumina Lina. Gracious Light, Nr. 2, 2011, pp. 23-27
Nicolae Nicolescu
Taina cultică şi slujirea bisericească. Definire hristologică şi antropologică (I)
Lumina Lina. Gracious Light, Nr. 1, 2011, pp. xxxxxxxxxx and Nr. 2, 2011, pp. 13-16.
Abstract: The Mystery of Worship and the Church Service: Historical and Anthropological Definitions
Serving
the Church must be experienced in liturgical acts and in the light of
the gifts of the Holy Spirit, shared through the Sacraments.
Within
Christ’s “One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic” Church, “Pillar and
Foundation of the Truth”, we go through the phases of communion and love
and we grasp the spiritual meaning of performing the official worship
in the Church, experiencing prayer in liturgical acts and particularly
in the holy sacraments, having the Holy Eucharist as their crown.
The
spiritual truth taken from the Revelation of the Holy Scriptures and
the Holy Tradition, having its sacramental foundation in the martyrdom
of the Holy Apostles, of the Holy Fathers and of all saints in history,
represents the real basis for meeting the living Person of the Son of
God Incarnate, Crucified and Resurrected.
The
human being restores the divine image of light and joy, an ontological
gift in his being, uniting the two worlds in the spring of Grace and
eternal Communion of the Holy Trinity. Today, more than ever, we need to
restore that image by promoting authentic goodness, renouncing
selfishness, and by discovering brotherly love.
M.N. Rusu
190 de ani de la revoluţia lui Tudor Vladimirescu. Carol Wallenstein, primul scenograf al teatrului în limba română
Lumina Lina. Gracious Light, Nr. 1, 2011, 17-23
Mihaela Albu
Spaţii identitare în memorialistica românească: oraşul (I)
Lumina Lina. Gracious Light, Nr. 1, 2011, pp. 27-32
Abstract: Space as a Face of Identity in Romanian Memoires and Diaries: the City
Memoires
(and literary diaries as well) can be perceived as very precious
documents about many geographical places, besides their value as
documents of the inhabitants’ life.
In
this paper we propose a recollection of several territories/ cities
from the point of view of some Romanian writers such as Constantin
Argetoianu, Cella Delavrancea, Constantin C. Giurescu, Gh.
Jurjea-Negrileşti, Virgil Ierunca, Monica Lovinescu, I. D. Sirbu. The
spaces they portrayed are cities such as Bucureşti, Brăila, Craiova,
Focşani, Galaţi. Each of them, as they are described from the
perspective of the moment of writing, turns out to be almost mythical
territory. From the perception of the writers, they receive a legendary
aura, bearing a certain stamp of distinctiveness. On the other hand,
when the writer notes in his diary the quotidian life, his description
is more objective and it can be ironical or even sarcastic.
Aurel M. Cazacu
Câte ceva despre începuturile retoricii româneşti
Lumina Lina. Gracious Light, Nr. 1, 2011, pp. 33-39
Stelian Gomboş
Câteva referinţe despre Biserica Ortodoxă şi societatea românească actuală (II)
Lumina Lina. Gracious Light, Nr. 4, 2010
Cristina Tamaş
Conotaţii biblice în romanul românesc modern
Lumina Lina. Gracious Light, Nr. 4, 2010
Dan Anghelescu
Horia Stamatu - poeticul între Filozofie şi Religie (II). Poemul ca vibraţie a sacralităţii
Lumina Lina. Gracious Light, Nr. 4, 2010
Mihaela Albu
Virgil Ierunca – un scriitor şi o conştiinţă
Lumina Lina. Gracious Light, Nr. 4, 2010
Dan Anghelescu
Horia Stamatu - poeticul între filozofie şi religie (I)
Lumina Lina. Gracious Light, Nr. 3, 2010
Stelian Gomboş
Câteva referinţe despre Biserica Ortodoxă şi societatea românească actuală (I)
Lumina Lina. Gracious Light, Nr. 3, 2010
Dan Brudaşcu
Octavian Goga. Noi lămuriri
Lumina Lina. Gracious Light, Nr. 2, 2010
Stelian Gombos
Despre omul de azi din Biserica, intre Hristos, existentialism si secularizare
Lumina Lina. Gracious Light, Nr. 1, 2010, pp. 11-18
Abstract: În
studiul de fata, plecand de la conditia si statutul celor doi talhari
care au fost rastigniti pe cruce odata cu Mantuitorul nostru Iisus
Hristos, am ajuns la observatia ca cei doi reprezinta umanitatea
intreaga de astazi si dintotdeauna, vis-a-vis de Domnul Iisus Hristos.
Aceasta introducere m-a ajutat foarte mult sa dezbat problema omului de azi din Biserica, intre Hristos, existentialism si secularizare,
ajungand astfel, la cateva observatii si concluzii cu privire la
aspectele secularismului, ce influenteaza si afecteaza intr-o mai mai
mica sau mai mare masura viata spirituala a credinciosilor contemporani
si, implicit viata sacramentala ori doctrinara a Bisericii.
Concluzia
esentiala a studiului este aceea a redesoperirii si reiterarii
tezaurului patristic, liturgic, canonic si dogmatic al Bisericii cu
scopul fortificarii duhovnicesti a oamenilor si consolidarii vietii
bisericesti misionare, in vederea combaterii desacralizarii vietii
crestine si a relativismului religios, care constituie factorii
principali ai afirmarii si extinderii secularizarii in contextul
globalizarii lumii acesteia postmoderne.
Drept
urmare, intoarcerea la originile invataturii bisericesti inseamna
intarirea cuvantului Mantuitorului nostru Iisus Hristos – care ne
asigura ca “Biserica este cetatea pe care nici portile iadului nu o vor
birui!...”
Ioan N. Rosca
Opozitii sau interferente culturale intre occidentul si rasaritul european?
Lumina Lina. Gracious Light, Nr. 1, 2010, pp. 19-24
Constantin Miu
Spriritualitatea geto-daca in Memento mori
Lumina Lina. Gracious Light, Nr. 1, 2010, pp. 31-36
Ioan N. Rosca
Comunicare interculturala intre similitudini si diferente specifice
Lumina Lina. Gracious Light, Nr. 4, 2009, pp. 11-18
Dumitru Olarescu
Artele plastice in imagini filmice. Opere si destine (studiu de sinteza)
Lumina Lina. Gracious Light, Nr. 4, 2009, pp. 19-29
Mihaela Albu
Presa literara a exilului romanesc. Contributii eseistice in revista Luceafarul: Mircea Eliade
Lumina Lina. Gracious Light, Nr. 4, 2009, pp. 35-39
Nicolae Iuga
Religion and ethnicity with S. P. Huntington
Lumina Lina. Gracious Light, Nr. 4, 2009, pp. 45-51
Abstract: In this article we analyze the relation between religion and ethnicity, as it is developed by S. P. Huntington in The Clash of Civilizations.
We have particularly chosen this author because, in our view,
Huntington is constantly referring to the religion - ethnicity
relation, as it can be found all around the world nowadays. Religion
becomes a factor of differentiation between civilizations and it will
have a great/ an amazing impact in a possible clash of civilizations.
Huntington performs the most structured and complete analysis of the
matter, which is relevant for the present moment and holds an obvious
predictive dimension.
Keywords: religion, ethnicity, civilization, nationalism, Occident, Turkey, Japan, Christianity, Islamism.
Baki Ymeri
The Albanian-Romanian phenomenology ― a miracle of history
Lumina Lina. Gracious Light, Nr. 4, 2009, pp. 53-58
Abstract: The
Albanians are the Romanians’ only relatives from the
Dacian-Thracian-Illyrian family. We will uncover here a fascinating
terrain of interlinkages dating back to the beginning of history and
which have not yet been sufficiently explored. Our Roman-ness did not
begin with Trajan’s invasion (101–106 AD), nor did it begin with
Decebalus or Burebista. It started much earlier, by means of pastoral
farming. We will analyze here its linguistic, ethnographic, and
ethnological elements. The ethno-spiritual relationships between the
Thracian-Romanian and Illyrian-Albanian pastoralism date from the
proto-Roman and proto-Latin periods.
Petru Adrian Danciu
Origen si numele divin in lucrarea Contra lui Celsus
Lumina Lina. Gracious Light, Nr. 3, 2009
Aurelia Roman
Centenarul Eugen Ionesco: controverse, obsesii si glorie planetara
Lumina Lina. Gracious Light, Nr. 3, 2009
Mircea Itu
Conceptul de spirit la Constantin Noica raportat la Mircea Eliade
Lumina Lina. Gracious Light, Nr. 3, 2009
Adrian Gh. Paul
Adolescenta si tentatiile ei intr-o lume desacralizata. Noi alternative crestine
Lumina Lina. Gracious Light, Nr. 3, 2009
Adrian Gh. Paul
Teologia –viata noastra in Hristos
Lumina Lina. Gracious Light, Nr. 2, 2009, pp. 11 ff.
Abstract:
The scientific approach of theology cannot be ever finalized. It is ever new. Theology itself is a science in that it relates not only to God, but also to God's work in the world. At the same time, theology is not pure intellectual speculation; it is intimate and profound living and appropriation by the believer of God's presence in the world. It has, evidently, a Theo-centric and Christo-centric character. Theology is also science, because it is not based only on human reason but om the divine reason as well.
Laura Enache
Triadologia Sfantului Ioan Damaschinul sau Teologia fiintei
Lumina Lina. Gracious Light, Nr. 1, 2009
Abstract: The Triadology of St. John of Damascus or the Theology of the Being
The
texts that are put together in this volume represent the Damascenian
synthesis concerning the Trinity dogma that this last Father who puts an
end to the Patristic age places in the core of the general presentation
of the Orthodox belief. The presentation of the Trinity dogma in the
case of St. John of Damascus reflects a scholastic-syllogistic manner
which had also been used in other works too, the syllogistic approach
being always determined by the universal-particular relationship. Our
work describes the way in which the Saint Father structures his speech
concerning God-The One generic being, the incomprehensible character of
the godlike being and also the absolute impossibility of its knowledge
and definition according to its absolute ineffable. The study insists
upon the fact that St. John of Damascus’ dogmatism aims at giving an
answer to the new Christological controvercies that were coming out when
these treaties were born.
Cristina Otovescu-Frasie
Cultura drepturilor omului in Romania
Lumina Lina. Gracious Light, Nr. 1, 2009
Abstract: The Culture of Human Rights in Romania
Analyzing
the structure of human rights in the contemporary world, the paper
underlines the fact that in the Romanian educational system the study of
human rights is included in the general education system of youths. The
paper informs about the results of a research study done in 2008 using
1,200 subjects from Sibiu and Craiova about people’s level of
information regarding the institutions that are in charge of regulating
human rights.
Zenovie Carlugea
Eminescu in lumina meditatiei crestine
Lumina Lina. Gracious Light, Nr. 1, 2009
Abstract: Eminescu in the Light of Christian Meditation
The
main idea of this paper starts from the increasingly popular tendency
in some studies on Eminescu to discover in his works not only a poet of
religious sensitivity, but also a poet whose creation focuses on
Orthodox spirituality.
As
all Romantic poets, Eminescu was interested in universal mythologies
and he made use of referrential images and metaphores taken from the
impressive diversity of humanity’s old cultural traditions. The study
demonstrates that this Orthodox complex identifiable in the great poet’s thought is only one part of the great imaginary architecture built through his works.
Mircea Botis, Radu Botis
Activitatea desfasurata de catre preotul Vasile Lucaciu in America in scopul realizarii Marii Unitati Nationale
Lumina Lina. Gracious Light, Nr. 1, 2009
Abstract: The Activity Developped by Priest Vasile Lucaciu in America with an Aim at Achieving the Great National Union
A complex political personality of his age, Vasile Lucaciu
placed himself in the activity which he had developped, in the
foreground of the great socio-political and national events. Among other
ideas, our study brings into light his participation in the achievement
and activation of The Memorandum (1892), the activation of the
Transylvanian Romanians’political spirit on the occasion of the
Conference in Sibiu (1905), the entry of Romania in the war together
with the Entente, the organizing of the 25000 Transylvanian refugees in
Romania in a volunteer unity of the Romanian army. One of the most
important actions of Priest Vasile Lucaciu was the one which he had
developped as a head of the political mission sent by the Romanian
Government in USA in 1917, when, at the White House, he had the
opportunity to address himself at a high level ceremonial mentioning the
patriotic purpose of the Romanian mission (July 2, 1917).
Andrei Paunescu
Scriitori si politica in Romania. Romanii, intre apogeul individual si abisul colectiv
Lumina Lina. Gracious Light, Nr. 4, 2008
Abstract: Writers and Politics in Romania: The Romanians between the Individual Climax and the Collective Abyss
The
assumption the present study starts from is that ”politics has never
been for Romanians (in their millenary existence) a habit which has been
practiced in a natural way and on a long term fully-experienced basis.
It is rather an exception, a concession of the destiny, a temporary
caprice, a fashion, an obsessive temptation, an ability which has never
turned into a normal phenomenon...” Under these circumstances the study
proves that, for the great writers of Romania, the involvement in
politics was almost a fatality in the conditions in which through
politics one has never succeeded - and not even now does the same one
succeed – to rule reality in a proper way as well as to rule the whole
economical social mechanism. As a consequence, for the writers politics
has been an assumption of certain risks, of a permanently awaken
consciousness at the service of the public interest. In their work,
among other main things, one can distinguish defence, the conservation
or recuperation of the kinship, language and cultural identity. The
study even talks about the notion of illuminated nationalism as a
radical and distilled form of patriotism which can find its expression
in many of the great Romanian writers’works.
Petru Adrian Danciu
Origen si numele divin in lucrarea „Contra lui Celsus“
Lumina Lina. Gracious Light, Nr. 4, 2008, pp.
Mircea Itu
“God was born in Exile”. Mircea Eliade and the Recuperation of the Sacred
Lumina Lina. Gracious Light, Nr. 4, 2008, pp. xxxxxxxx
Abstract: The
study reveals the place of the exile in Romanian culture and talks
about one of the most important example of both inner and exterior
exile, Mircea Eliade. The recuperation of the sacred is presented as the
solution to it.
The
author outlines the examples of important personalities from Romanian
history and culture for whom „God was born in Exile”, as they were
forced or they chose to live and create abroad. He then shows the
importance of their creations, many of them being well recognized in
their adoptive countries.
Then
he gives the example of Mircea Eliade which proves the complexity of
exile and reveals both inner and exterior exile. He explains the
diversity of expericences that Eliade had. He expressed his ideas in
different languages, being well appreciated for his outstanding concepts
in comparative religion.
The
author says that Mircea Eliade taught about the liberation of man from
the terror of history and the abolition of time, he wrote that there is
an exile of human being from the profane time and from the fear of
death. The solution which Eliade proposed is the exit from profane time
while rediscovering, through true knowledge, the sacred aspect of time,
the cosmical and reversible time. He suggests the trip towards the
origin for the recuperation of the sacred time.
Anca Codruta Stanisoara
Religious Matters in the Anglo-Saxon Society. Old English Heathenism and the Introduction of Christianity
Lumina Lina. Gracious Light, Nr. 4, 2008, pp. xxxxxxxx
Abstract: During
the Anglo-Saxon period English schools were among the finest in Europe
due to the fact that learning and Christianity went hand in hand.
Religious matters were first related to the English Heathenism and later
on after the introduction of Christianity they influenced the
development of learning, which started in the monasteries. The wealth of
learning brought by Christianism produced a true Anglo-Saxon
Renaissance by the 8 th century and gave birth to the first pages of
Christian epics as well as to the famous poems in the four Old English
manuscripts and of The Cynewulfian School.
Cristina Otovescu-Frasie
Cultura drepturilor omului in Romania
Lumina Lina. Gracious Light, Nr. 4, 2008, pp. xxxxxxxx
Abstract: The Culture of Human Rights in Romania
Analyzing
the structure of human rights in the contemporary world, the paper
underlines the fact that in the Romanian educational system the study of
human rights is included in the general education system of youths. The
paper informs about the results of a research study done in 2008 using
1,200 subjects from Sibiu and Craiova about people’s level of
information regarding the institutions that are in charge of regulating
human rights.
Gheorghe Macarie
Preliminarii la baroc
Lumina Lina. Gracious Light, Nr. 3, 2008, pp 11-19.
Abstract: The
study introduces the reader to the history of the concept of "baroque"
and places it in the artistic context of the times, while analyzing its
development and spreading to different nations and cultures, including
the Romanian principalities.
A number of essential characteristics of this art is also presented.
Andrei Paunescu
Maiorescu si Eminescu, capete de pod catre noul secol
Lumina Lina. Gracious Light, Nr. 3, 2008, pp 23-27.
Gabriela Rusu-Pasarin
Cultura presei si paradigmele identitatii
Lumina Lina. Gracious Light, Nr. 3, 2008, pp. 39-42, and Nr. 4, 2008, pp.
Abstract: The Culture of the Press and the Paradigm of Identity
The
study analyses the data of the present mediatic phenomenon which, in
the contemporary world, is in an aggressive expansion phase contributing
to the appearance and settlement of a new cultural form, the Medi Culture.
It acquires more and more the form of what one can foreshadow to become
a future culture of a global unity. At the same time we have to do with
an environment which can bring its contribution in an effective way to
the building up of the Self, of the individual identitites, of the
social identity and last but not least of the national and cultural
European identity.
Aurel M. Cazacu
Sofismul in practica argumentativa
Lumina Lina. Gracious Light, Nr. 3, 2008, pp. 43-52.
Abstract: Sophism in the argumentative practice
The
critical evaluation of the argumentations or of the argumentative
chains implies both the analysis of arguments as well as the use of the
varied methods of each argumentation technique category. Such an
endeavor which is neither final nor easy to achieve, strives to outline,
often in a similar way to the demonstration examination manner, whether
or not the grounding of the thesis was performed according to the
requirements of accurateness. Not always such requirements are observed.
The qualification of some argumentations as “erroneous” or ”faulty” or
the consideration there of as “logic juggling” and “logical tricks”
leads us to our topic The Sophism in the Argumentative Practice.The sophism (sophisma in Old Greek or fallacia
in Latin) has the meaning of “trick”, “cheat” and points to a series of
logical errors found in the practice of idea justification through
demonstrations or argumentations, irrespective if they are deliberate or
not. However the researchers have tried to distinguish these logical
errors also in relation to their deliberate or non-deliberate
perspective, hence the common distinction between “sophisms” (deliberate
logical errors) and “paralogisms” (non-deliberate logical errors).
Starting
with Aristotle and continuing with John Stuart Mill in the modern age,
and with the contemporary researchers Irving M. Copi, Daniel J.
Sullivan, Barbara Warnick and Edward S. Inch, Christian Plantin, C.L.
Hamblin, John Woods and Douglas Walton, Frans H. van Eemeren and Rob
Grootendorst etc. sophisms have been submitted to analysis and
systematization attempts.
There
are many aspects which make us reject the exclusivity of such attempts,
whereas the table of argumentation errors is much more extended and
before all open. However we shall hereinafter ponder only on those which
are considered frequent in almost all fields or argumentative
situations.
Keywords: argumentation, argument, error, logic, sophism
Constantin Miu
Personajele in absentia in teatrul lui Caragiale
Lumina Lina. Gracious Light, Nr. 3, 2008, pp. 53-58.
Abstract: In Absentia Characters in the Plays of Caragiale
When there were references to the characters from the plays of Caragiale, there were brought into discussion the ones in absentia too. In the following lines we will talk about this class of characters.
There are two types of in absentia characters in Caragiale’s plays: the ones that are partially absent and the ones that are totally absent.
Rica Venturiano and Nae Catavencu belong to the first category. Each of
the two men show up in the second act – Rica in the second scene (O noapte furtunoasa – A stormy night) and Catavencu in the seventh scene (O scrisoare pierduta – A lost letter). Until then, there are discussions about them. In the second category belong Ghita Ţircandau and Tache the shoemaker (O noapte furtunoasa – A stormy night), Garibaldi and Mita (Conul Leonida fata cu reactiunea – Master Leonida facing the reaction), Popa Pripici and his son, Trahanache (O scrisoare pierduta – A lost letter).
In absentia characters are characterized through the comic dialogues reproduced by other characters.
Theodor Coresi
Dramaturgia si retorica muzicii in liturghie, in cantul vocal cultic crestin (Partea I)
Lumina Lina. Gracious Light, Nr. 1, 2008, pp. 15-34
Abstract: This
study discusses the functions of the liturgical music in pre-Christian
times as well as in the Byzantine and Western traditions. It explains
the concepts of "drama" and "rhethoric" in the context of the music,
using Christian-Patristic literature to clarify their meanings and
implications in the spiritual life of the worshipping community.
Aura Al. Constantinescu-Cazacu
Reflectiile tanarului Mircea Eliade despre semnificatia ortodoxiei
Lumina Lina. Gracious Light, Nr. 1, 2008, pp. 37-45.
Abstract: The Thoughts of Young Mircea Eliade on the Significance of Orthodoxy
The
present survey evidenced a less known aspect of Mircea Eliade’s
preoccupation during the initiating period of “his spiritual itinerary”,
when he encouraged young generation, which he himself was a part of, to
crystallize its own ideal. Not accidentally, for the future savant in
the history and philosophy of religions, the ideal may only be
identified on the dike of orthodoxy, the core of the authentic
Christianity. But the path is one of obstacles, not anyone and anytime
can pass through it, and it only materializes at the end of a number of
experiences of existential nature.
At
the age of 20, Mircea Eliade admits in public that he is beginning to
fill attracted by the orthodox tradition, a precious part of the
Romanian history and culture and he sustains that you are not borne, but
you become an orthodox, thesis that shall, during the era, give rise to
intense discussions. His arguments of a physiological nature, with a
significant existential-Christian and intuitive philosophy character,
gave rise to powerful reactions from the coevals Nae Ionescu, Mircea
Vulcanescu, Paul Sterian, Serban Cioculescu and others. Therefore in the
pages of “Viata Literara” (“Literary life”) two ways of philosophical
comparison to orthodoxy confronted: the classical one, where the faith
acts almost fatalistic, as something inevitable, and the Eliadistic one
(but with certain neo-protestant and oriental mysticism influences),
whereby faith is reached (or not) based on our free choice and depending
on the way of understanding the relation between transcendent and the
material world.
Zenovie Carlugea
Eminescu in atentia serviciilor secrete
Lumina Lina. Gracious Light, Nr. 1, 2008, pp. 47-55.
Mihaela Albu
Un reprezentant al „poeziei inchisorilor”: Zahu Pana
Lumina Lina. Gracious Light, Nr. 1, 2008, pp. 63-66.
Abstract: Zahu Pana and the „Poetry of Prisons”
A
very important name of the Romanian writers who suffered under the
communist regime, managing to emigrate and live in the last part of his
life in the United States, was Zahu Pana. In exile, he published a
volume of poetry Cu acul pe sapun (With a Needle on a Soap), but more important is his Antology - Poezii din inchisori (Poems from Prisons).
About
his life in the Romanian communist prisons, about his poetry and also
about many other poets who could create (with enormous sacrifices)
tragic poems in those hard conditions, Zahu Pana spoke in an interview
published in Lumea libera, the anti-communist newspaper published in New York.
This article put in the light for today readers the most important issues of this interview.
Theodor Damian
Origen, Theologian and Philosopher: On First Principles
Lumina Lina. Gracious Light, Nr. 4, 2007, pp. 17-24.
Abstract: This article intents to present one of Origen's most important books, On First Principles,
and to indicate its relevance for the development of Christian theology
after him. Starting with a brief introduction where Origen's
personality is brought to the reader's attention, the paper focuses on
the method the author uses in elaborating his work, and then discusses
shortly a series of main theological topics of the book, such as those
related to Christology, Pneumatology, Creation, Free Will, the Holy
Scriptures, and concludes by presenting Origen's legacy in the Christian
world.
Aurel M. Cazacu
Titu Maiorescu - contemporanul nostru
Lumina Lina. Gracious Light, Nr. 4, 2007, pp, 27-33.
Abstract: Titu Maiorescu – Our Contemporary
The author presents the complex personality of the one who was the mentor of The Junimea Society,
of the one who directed the theoretical researches of his time by the
means of his University lectures and who also had a defining
contribution in the establishing of the Romanian orthography, in the
orientation of the Romanian literature, in the political and diplomatic
sphere. In the above-mentioned study one talks about the logic
professor’s contribution, Titu Maiorescu, the one who in 1876 published
in his Logic a sort of a schoolbook. The study brings into
discussion the value of this work considered from the perspective of the
contemporary thinking in this field.
Mihaela Albu
Ziarul Lumea libera - document si memorie a exilului romanesc
Lumina Lina. Gracious Light, Nr. 4, 2007, pp. 53-56.
Abstract: The Free World Journal – A Document and a Memory of the Romanian Exile
This work is focused on one of the most important publications of the Romanian exile - The Free World Journal
in New York, being registered in the vast area of the researches in the
history of the press of our exile. The analysis highlights the
particularly special part played by this publication in the life of the
Romanian emigration both in America and on other meridians in the world.
At the same time the research emphasizes the fight of this publication
against the communist totalitarism. The value of The Free World Journal
is also underlined through the contribution of some high-rank
personalities from the Romanian and international sphere of politics and
culture.
Catalin Vatamanu
Fundamentele biblico dogmatice ale teologiei Învierii in opera Sfantului Ioan Gura de Aur
Lumina Lina. Gracious Light, Nr. 3, 2007, pp. 9-22.
Abstract: The Biblical-dogmatical Foundations of the Theology of Resurrection in the Writings of John Chrysostom
The
approach of the biblical - dogmatical foundations of the Theology of
Resurrection in the Writings of John Chrysostom is not the result of a
speculative reflection and, even this approach is systemic and
methodical, it doesn’t derive from scientific analyses, but it denotes
an intense personal inner feeling.
The
Resurrection is the essence of our faith and the base of the Church, is
the mystery of human salvation, it is the basis of our renewal through
baptism, the guarantee of our resurrection and of our eternal life. Even
our Christian life is the proof of the presence of the Resurrection
gifts and a foretaste of the eternal life.
Zenovie Carlugea
Ecouri precrestine ale Isihasmului
Lumina Lina. Gracious Light, Nr. 3, 2007, pp. 23-29.
Abstract: Isihasmul
(practică a liniştirii sufleteşti), apare în tradiţia paleo-creştină
(sec.III –IV), ca virtute a purificării şi iluminării harice. Ulterior
dobândeşte structurare, identitate şi fundamentare teologică (sec. XIV).
Ca sitem doctrinar se bazează pe exerciţiu meditaţiei întru desăvârşirea noetică şi ontologică.
Ideea
de ascetism isihast, practicată de misticii ortodoxiei nord-dunărene
vine de la o tradiţie pre-ceştină mai veche a preoţilor geto-daci.
Mircea Itu
The Hermeneutics of Myth
Lumina Lina. Gracious Light, Nr. 3, 2007, pp. 33-49.
Abstract: The
article outlines the significant role which the hermeneutics of myth
played in the philosophical approach towards religion in general.
The
author follows different interpretations of the myth and relates them
to other theories of myth, both traditional and modern.
The
author shows some definitions of the myth and the view on the myth of
different scholars who studied this field. Myth is not a false story,
but a sacred history. He points out that myth is complementary to
science and to history. He then describes the categories of myth and its
meanings.
Afterwards, he reveals the perception of myth in the modern world and the negativistic theories against myth.
He
concludes by showing what the aim of demythisation should be and that
myth serves as a model, with its sacred and repetitive nature, being a
ground for human behaviour.
Nicolae Iuga
Teologia lui Dumitru Staniloaie in contextul spiritualitatii europene contemporane
Lumina Lina. Gracious Light, Nr. 2, 2007, pp. 19-28.
Abstract: Modernitatea
a început cu o afirmare a a raţiunii şi a sfârşit cu o saturaţie
raţionalistă. Dar, totuşi, se afirmă, trăirea mistică este esenţială şi
constitutivă omului.
În
eseistica franceză s-a vorbit insistent despre o “dezvrăjire” a lumii
(désenchantement), prin lucrarea lui Marcel Gauchet, în care se relua un
termen al lui Max Weber ce pretindea că în lumea modernă magia a fost
eliminată.
Pe de altă parte M.Eliade vorbeşte despre perenitatea lui homo religiosus.
Dumitru
Stăniloaie este considerat unul dintre cei mai importanţi teologi
europeni, autor al unui curs de Ascetică şi Mistică la facultatea de
Teologie din Bucureşti. Ascetica echivalând cu purificarea de patimi şi
dobândirea de virtuţi, Mistica fiind unirea cu Dumnezeu, stare la care
se ajunge prin epuizarea tuturor posibilităţilor raţiunii.
Theodor Damian
The Longing for God in Eminescu’s Poetry
Lumina Lina. Gracious Light, Nr. 2, 2007, pp. 37-44.
Abstract: This
paper is an attempt to demonstrate how a series of fundamental values
of the Christian Tradition as reflected in the Romanian Orthodox history
were integral part of Eminescu's thinking and implicitly present in
his works.
In
doing that the author starts an argument with one of Eminescu's
interpreters, Alexander Melian, who explains some of Eminescu's direct
or indirect references to religion in non-religious terms. The paper
concludes with the idea that Eminescu was much more of a theologian than
he appears to have been.
Andreea Chelu
Poezia religioasa eminesciana: Rugaciune, Dumnezeu si om, Rasai asupra mea
Lumina Lina. Gracious Light, Nr. 1, 2007, pp. 13-19.
Abstract: Poezia şi religia – se afirmă în lucrare – reprezintă, fiecare în felul său, acte de comunicare.
Poezia
religioasă apare mai întâi ca zestre spirituală. Ea va fi percepută fie
ca literatură, fie ca operă de credinţă. Între ipostazele lirice
eminesciene trebuie relevată dimensiunea creştină.
Opoziţia
dintre credinţa simplă şi sinceră şi opoziţia ştiinţifică este evidenta
în texte şi reflectă viziunea lui Eminescu asupra credinţei şi a
raportului acesteia cu timpul.
George Liviu Teleoaca
Lykantropia de la proslavirea unicului ziditor la apologia carnasierului sau Mircea Eliade contra lui Mircea Eliade
Lumina Lina. Gracious Light, Nr. 1, 2007, pp. 25-31.
Abstract: Fascinat
de arhaismul atestat al lupului în simbolistica religioasă, Mircea
Eliade a încercat să integreze într-o singură viziune toate
manifestările cultice ilustrate de imaginea lupului.
Monumentalitatea
unei opere nu poate servi – susţine autorul – suport pentru acreditarea
unei erori. În acord cu subtitlul Istorie şi semnificaţie în religie,
se pune în valoare ideea că istoria religiilor ar putea avea o
contribuţie importantă la formarea unui nou umanism la scară mondială.
Mircea Itu
Îndumnezeirea omului in viziunea lui Dumitru Staniloae
Lumina Lina. Gracious Light, Nr. 4, 2006, pp. 15-23.
Abstract: Man's Deification in Dumitru Staniloae's Vision
Dumitru
Staniloaie is one of the most important Christian Orthodox theologians
from the XXth century. The author intends to outline that he also has a
mystical approach to religion. Thus, following the theories of other
important Christian theologians such as Saint John Cassian, Gregoy of
Palamas and Nikolai Berdiaev, Staniloaie insists upon the image of God
in man.
The author presents Staniloaie’s concepts of theosis and kenosis. In conclusion, one should not confront theology and mysticism.
Keywords: image of God in man, image of man in God, theosis, kenosis.
George Liviu Teleoaca
Brasov – capitala ecumenica
Lumina Lina. Gracious Light, Nr. 4, 2006, pp. 25-29.
Abstract:
Braşovul pune astăzi problema unor noi contribuţii lamişcarea ecumenică
în vederea atingerii marelui ideal pe care autorul îl numeşte unitatea
credinţei.
Biblia care va trebui respectată în întregul ei, prevede pentru preoţia lui Iisus Hristos o singură rânduială.
Pe
plan general există temeiuri ontologice pentru a accepta unitatea
Biserici, întoarcerea la unitatea originară prin regăsirea de sine a
fiecăruia întru ascendenţa sa.
Daniel Dascalu
Binecredinciosul Voievod Ştefan cel Mare si Sfant: cateva consideratii pe marginea canonizarii
Lumina Lina. Gracious Light, Nr. 3, 2006, pp. 15-27.
Abstract:
La ceas aniversar (500 de ani de la trecerea la cele veşnice), sunt
prezentate motivele care au determinat canonizarea domnitorului. Între
acestea sunt enumerate – sub titlul de ortodoxia vieţii – trei mari
virtuţi creştine: credinţa, nădejdea şi dragostea care l-au călăuzit
de-a lungul vieţii.
Între
alte virtuţi sunt pomenite ascultarea faţă de dohovnic, condiţie de
primire a ajutorului lui Dumnezeu şi împlinirea rânduielilor Bisericii
şi cea de ctitor de lăcaşuri sfinte.
Zenovie Carlugea
Brancusi – reverberatii liturgice
Lumina Lina. Gracious Light, Nr. 3, 2006, pp. 29-32.
Abstract: Nepot
al cioplitorului în lemn, Constantin cel care ridicase biserica din
Hobiţa cu hramul Sf. Dumitru. În cimitirul din vecinătatea ei dorm
somnul de veci părinţii şi neamurile în frunte cu cioplitorul al cărui
nume e trecut în proscomidarul din altar.
Constantin
Brâncuşi – se spune în articol –avea în suflet duhul rugăciunii şi
afirmase că i-a văzut pe tată şi pe bunic „rugându-se înainte de a
ciopli lemnul cu barda pentru a face din el cruci.”
Templele şi bisericile, potrivit mărturiei sale reproduse în articol, au rămas lăcaşuri ale meditaţiei.
La Craiova, ca elev şi apoi ca mic slujbaş cânta în strana bisericii Madona Dudu şi trăgea clopotele.
Ulterior,
în Franţa, va fi şi cântăreţ şi paracliser la Capela Română din
Jean-de-Beauvais alături de preotul-paroh Chesarie Ştefanu. Între
aforismele şi textele lui Brâncuşi: „Divinitatea e pretutindeni!...este
chiar aici şi putem cu toţii să facem parte din ea….noi nu reprezentăm
nimic”.
Constantin Miu
Spiritul nastratinesc in La lilieci
Lumina Lina. Gracious Light, Nr. 3, 2006, pp. 33-39.
Abstract: The Nastratinian Spirit in La Lilieci
In the series of The Bats, the
dialogue, the elliptical formulations and the onomatopoeic
interjections or the ones with verbal value (specific to the peasant,
that makes the best of a bad bargain) give orality to a writing that
exploits the virtues of the nastratinian spirit. The spectacle of the rustic humanity is similar (but not identical!) with the one from The memories of Creanga. If in Amintiri din copilarie (Childhood memories) of Creanga we find the game with masks,
in a play that is similar to a carnival, performed by Nica and his
brothers, the story-teller being both actor and director, in Morometii (first volume) by Marin Preda, and in the books that make the epic La lilieci written
by Marin Sorescu, the way that the rural world is seen as a spectacle,
proposes a different manner from that of Creanga. In Morometii,
the protagonist – Ilie Moromete – becomes, along with the reader, a
spectator of the things that happen, but there are moments when he is
director and actor in the same time. The sorescian rural humanity is
presented by a discrete director, that leaves the impression that the
world is self presenting. That explains the presence of dialogue, which
reveals the spontaneity of speaking and the fact that the play is
performed right under the reader’s eyes. This trait belongs to the
nastratinian spirit.