Mărturisitori ai ortodoxiei în timpul regimului comunist, editor Mihai Săsăujan, Editura Cuvântul Vieții, București, 2018
Studiul lămurește împrejurările în care a fost arestată maica Teodosia Lațcu de la Vladimirești, ... more Studiul lămurește împrejurările în care a fost arestată maica Teodosia Lațcu de la Vladimirești, motivele arestării, căile încurcate ale procesului de care a avut parte, proces încheiat cu achitare după ce mai mai mulți ani monahia poetă a stat în arest, în spitalul închisoare de la Văcărești și în domiciliu obligatoriu. Se clarifică astfel un moment puțin cunoscut și neînțeles al biografiei maicii Teodosia.
Analele Universităţii „Dunărea de Jos” din Galaţi, Seria 19, Istorie, 2023
The study starts from Cyril Hovorun's book: Political Orthodoxies: The Unorthodoxies of the Churc... more The study starts from Cyril Hovorun's book: Political Orthodoxies: The Unorthodoxies of the Church Coerced and analyzes several concepts present in the book: "Political Orthodoxies", "Unorthodoxies", "Heresies", "Church Coerced", "civil religion", "political religion", "ideology", "conservatism", "fundamentalism", etc. Once these concepts are clarified, it is shown that Hovorun does not define some concepts well, in many situations it is confusing, and the work presents many shortcomings from the point of view of historical documentation. The situation is even more complicated in the case of the Romanian translation, which subtly tries to criticize the Orthodox Church from a Protestant perspective, by manipulating some concepts. At the end, the study proposes a new grid for understanding the relations between Orthodoxy, ideology and political power in the contemporary era.
... ar fi trebuit să fie luate de mai de mult; b. trebuiau adunaţi bandiţii chiar în timpul adună... more ... ar fi trebuit să fie luate de mai de mult; b. trebuiau adunaţi bandiţii chiar în timpul adunării de la Alba Iulia; astăzi ei ... pe şantierul Canalul Dunăre Marea Neagră se propagă misticismul religios; - să se exploateze şi să se utilizeze informativ foştii consilieri Sorescu Gheorghe şi ...
In this article, the great historian Peter Brown's conception of the origins and development ... more In this article, the great historian Peter Brown's conception of the origins and development of the cult of saints in Late Antiquity is presented. Peter Brown's contribution to defining the concept of "Late Antiquity" is also highlighted.
At the beginning of 1944, Romania had to evacuate Transdniester. Besides the army and the Romania... more At the beginning of 1944, Romania had to evacuate Transdniester. Besides the army and the Romanian public servants who had ensured the functioning of the occupation regime, they had to think of withdrawing the local population that had collaborated with the Romanian authorities in order to keep them away from the Soviet retaliation. The fate of these refugees is retraced based on the archive documents
The article presents the work of the secretary of the Bessarabian Metropolitan Church professor C... more The article presents the work of the secretary of the Bessarabian Metropolitan Church professor Constantin N. Tomescu, between 1918-1940 and 1941-1944. Born in Constanta, after his studies at the Iasi Theological Seminary and then at the Faculty of Theology in Bucharest, Constantin N. Tomescu was delegated as secretary of the Metropolitan Church of Bessarabia and fulfilled this function throughout the interwar period. In Chisinau he carried out extensive cultural activities: in parallel with the position of secretary of the Metropolitan, he collaborated in publishing several newspapers and magazines, actively participated in various Committees, Societies, Cultural Associations, schools, etc. In 1926 he actively participated in the opening of the Faculty of Theology in Chisinau, being involved until 1944 as a professor and dean of this faculty. In 1937 - 1938 he was Minister of Cults and Arts. With the Soviet army entering Bessarabia in 1944, he and his family fled to Romania. During...
Decree 177 of the 4th of August 1948 was the law that represented the foundation of the legislati... more Decree 177 of the 4th of August 1948 was the law that represented the foundation of the legislation which regulated the activity of religions and cults in Romania throughout the communist period. Due to this, Decree 177 is always mentioned in every analysis of the relationship between church and state in communist Romania. Unfortunately, no serious analysis of the text of the decree has been written until now. Many authors simply enumerated the stipulations of the text or focused on irrelevant aspects of the decree. It should be emphasized that the new Romanian legislation regarding religions and cults did not emulate the Soviet legislation, but rather it reinterpreted the older Romanian legislation from the Interwar Period. This can be proven by closely analyzing the text of Decree 177 and comparing it to the text of the 1928 Law which regulated cults and religions. By doing this, we can easily see how the communist authorities reinterpreted the "bourgeois" legislation by seeing the relationship between church and state in a new light, but, at the same time, giving the appearance of continuing the same legislation.
In the Orthodox tradition, there is no systemic theory on the issue of war. Some contemporary aut... more In the Orthodox tradition, there is no systemic theory on the issue of war. Some contemporary authors attempted to deduce a theory and to establish Orthodox regulations concerning war, but, in most cases, these attempts proved to be only personal reconstructions, based upon a particular pattern.This is the reason why historical research proves to be useful; it evinces all the concrete ways the Orthodox world dealt with war, in various temporal and spatial contexts.My communication focuses on the perspective Romanian Orthodoxy has had upon war, from the creation of the Romanian states (in the XIV-th century) until today. The organisation of the Orthodoxy into national churches, each having its own particular evolution, makes this attempt legitimate.My paper does more than selecting the references to war from the documents. The problem of war has never been an autonomous issue, but it is closely connected to the fate of a community, to the choices it makes, according to its major aspirations, to the ways the community represents itself and relates itself to the others. Therefore, war is discussed in the broader context of the relations between religion, church, society and state
Mărturisitori ai ortodoxiei în timpul regimului comunist, editor Mihai Săsăujan, Editura Cuvântul Vieții, București, 2018
Studiul lămurește împrejurările în care a fost arestată maica Teodosia Lațcu de la Vladimirești, ... more Studiul lămurește împrejurările în care a fost arestată maica Teodosia Lațcu de la Vladimirești, motivele arestării, căile încurcate ale procesului de care a avut parte, proces încheiat cu achitare după ce mai mai mulți ani monahia poetă a stat în arest, în spitalul închisoare de la Văcărești și în domiciliu obligatoriu. Se clarifică astfel un moment puțin cunoscut și neînțeles al biografiei maicii Teodosia.
Analele Universităţii „Dunărea de Jos” din Galaţi, Seria 19, Istorie, 2023
The study starts from Cyril Hovorun's book: Political Orthodoxies: The Unorthodoxies of the Churc... more The study starts from Cyril Hovorun's book: Political Orthodoxies: The Unorthodoxies of the Church Coerced and analyzes several concepts present in the book: "Political Orthodoxies", "Unorthodoxies", "Heresies", "Church Coerced", "civil religion", "political religion", "ideology", "conservatism", "fundamentalism", etc. Once these concepts are clarified, it is shown that Hovorun does not define some concepts well, in many situations it is confusing, and the work presents many shortcomings from the point of view of historical documentation. The situation is even more complicated in the case of the Romanian translation, which subtly tries to criticize the Orthodox Church from a Protestant perspective, by manipulating some concepts. At the end, the study proposes a new grid for understanding the relations between Orthodoxy, ideology and political power in the contemporary era.
... ar fi trebuit să fie luate de mai de mult; b. trebuiau adunaţi bandiţii chiar în timpul adună... more ... ar fi trebuit să fie luate de mai de mult; b. trebuiau adunaţi bandiţii chiar în timpul adunării de la Alba Iulia; astăzi ei ... pe şantierul Canalul Dunăre Marea Neagră se propagă misticismul religios; - să se exploateze şi să se utilizeze informativ foştii consilieri Sorescu Gheorghe şi ...
In this article, the great historian Peter Brown's conception of the origins and development ... more In this article, the great historian Peter Brown's conception of the origins and development of the cult of saints in Late Antiquity is presented. Peter Brown's contribution to defining the concept of "Late Antiquity" is also highlighted.
At the beginning of 1944, Romania had to evacuate Transdniester. Besides the army and the Romania... more At the beginning of 1944, Romania had to evacuate Transdniester. Besides the army and the Romanian public servants who had ensured the functioning of the occupation regime, they had to think of withdrawing the local population that had collaborated with the Romanian authorities in order to keep them away from the Soviet retaliation. The fate of these refugees is retraced based on the archive documents
The article presents the work of the secretary of the Bessarabian Metropolitan Church professor C... more The article presents the work of the secretary of the Bessarabian Metropolitan Church professor Constantin N. Tomescu, between 1918-1940 and 1941-1944. Born in Constanta, after his studies at the Iasi Theological Seminary and then at the Faculty of Theology in Bucharest, Constantin N. Tomescu was delegated as secretary of the Metropolitan Church of Bessarabia and fulfilled this function throughout the interwar period. In Chisinau he carried out extensive cultural activities: in parallel with the position of secretary of the Metropolitan, he collaborated in publishing several newspapers and magazines, actively participated in various Committees, Societies, Cultural Associations, schools, etc. In 1926 he actively participated in the opening of the Faculty of Theology in Chisinau, being involved until 1944 as a professor and dean of this faculty. In 1937 - 1938 he was Minister of Cults and Arts. With the Soviet army entering Bessarabia in 1944, he and his family fled to Romania. During...
Decree 177 of the 4th of August 1948 was the law that represented the foundation of the legislati... more Decree 177 of the 4th of August 1948 was the law that represented the foundation of the legislation which regulated the activity of religions and cults in Romania throughout the communist period. Due to this, Decree 177 is always mentioned in every analysis of the relationship between church and state in communist Romania. Unfortunately, no serious analysis of the text of the decree has been written until now. Many authors simply enumerated the stipulations of the text or focused on irrelevant aspects of the decree. It should be emphasized that the new Romanian legislation regarding religions and cults did not emulate the Soviet legislation, but rather it reinterpreted the older Romanian legislation from the Interwar Period. This can be proven by closely analyzing the text of Decree 177 and comparing it to the text of the 1928 Law which regulated cults and religions. By doing this, we can easily see how the communist authorities reinterpreted the "bourgeois" legislation by seeing the relationship between church and state in a new light, but, at the same time, giving the appearance of continuing the same legislation.
In the Orthodox tradition, there is no systemic theory on the issue of war. Some contemporary aut... more In the Orthodox tradition, there is no systemic theory on the issue of war. Some contemporary authors attempted to deduce a theory and to establish Orthodox regulations concerning war, but, in most cases, these attempts proved to be only personal reconstructions, based upon a particular pattern.This is the reason why historical research proves to be useful; it evinces all the concrete ways the Orthodox world dealt with war, in various temporal and spatial contexts.My communication focuses on the perspective Romanian Orthodoxy has had upon war, from the creation of the Romanian states (in the XIV-th century) until today. The organisation of the Orthodoxy into national churches, each having its own particular evolution, makes this attempt legitimate.My paper does more than selecting the references to war from the documents. The problem of war has never been an autonomous issue, but it is closely connected to the fate of a community, to the choices it makes, according to its major aspirations, to the ways the community represents itself and relates itself to the others. Therefore, war is discussed in the broader context of the relations between religion, church, society and state
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Once these concepts are clarified, it is shown that Hovorun does not define some concepts well, in many situations it is confusing, and the work presents many shortcomings from the point of view of historical documentation. The situation is even more complicated in the case of the Romanian translation, which subtly tries to criticize the Orthodox Church from a Protestant perspective, by manipulating some concepts.
At the end, the study proposes a new grid for understanding the relations between Orthodoxy, ideology and political power in the contemporary era.
Once these concepts are clarified, it is shown that Hovorun does not define some concepts well, in many situations it is confusing, and the work presents many shortcomings from the point of view of historical documentation. The situation is even more complicated in the case of the Romanian translation, which subtly tries to criticize the Orthodox Church from a Protestant perspective, by manipulating some concepts.
At the end, the study proposes a new grid for understanding the relations between Orthodoxy, ideology and political power in the contemporary era.