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EDITORIAL

Patriarch Justinian Marina (1901-1977) – A Providential Personality of the Romanian Orthodoxy

Rev. Prof. Ioan Tulcan, PdD.

STUDIES AND ARTICLES

HE Emilian Crișanul, Vicar Bishop of the Diocese of Arad

Faith and Theological Knowledge in the Book Acts of the Apostles

Caius Cuţaru

A Moment of the Christian – Islamic Inter-Religious Dialogue. The Sirian-Jacobit Patriarch, John I, in Dialogue with the Emire ʼAmr Ibn al-ʼAs (639 d. Hr.)

Teofan Mada

The Methodology of the “Original” Sin and Grace Dogmatics According to Blessed Augustine

Ştefan Negreanu

The Church of Ireland during the Viking Invasions from the 9th – 11th Centuries

Valentin Ilie

The Tzadik: Mystical Behaviour and Community Responsibility

Casian Rușeț

The Living Icon of Christ as A Paradigm of Justice

Vicențiu Românu

Patristic Fundamentals of the Dogmatic Thought of Father Justin Popovitch

Traian Nojea

Contemporary Challenges in Romanian Religious Education: Values – Norms – Legislation

BOOK REVIEWS

Pr. Josiah B. Trenham, Căsătorie și feciorie în gândirea Sfântului Ioan Gură de Aur, trad. Lucian Filip, Editura Doxologia, Iași, 2016, 353 p.

(Stoienescu Teodor-Daniil)

Georgică Grigoriţă, Sfintele și Dumnezeieștile canoane: între tradiție eclezială și necesitate pastorală. O analiză a izvoarelor teologiei canonice în actualul context ecleziologic, Bucureşti, 2017, 432 p.

(Petru Ursulescu)

Ulrich Rudolph, Islamische Philosophie. Von den Anfängen bis zur Gagenwart (Islamic Philosophy. From Beginning until Today), C.H. Beck, München, 2013, 128 p.,

(Adrian Popa)
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EDITORIAL

Theology of Icon in the 20th Century Neo-Patristic Synthesis
Rev. Cristinel Ioja

STUDIES AND ARTICLES

Ioan Tulcan
Elements of Orthodox Anthropology in Vladimir Lossky’s Thinking and Their Relevance to the Contemporary Man

Vasile Bîrzu
Scholastic Order vs Symbolic Order. Protestant Reform as Expression of a Language Crisis

Teofan Mada
Love as Principle of Knowledge in the Eastern Fathers

Vasile Vlad
From Slavery to the Freedom of the Will – An Exegesis to the Prodigal Son’s Parable from the Perspective of Moral Theology

Lucian Farcaşiu
Epiphanism in the Orthodox Worship and Its Relevance to the Church Theology and Life

Casian Rușeț
Legislation Regarding the Responsibility of the Employees of the Romanian Orthodox Church, Depending on Their Work Duties, during the Communist Regime (1948-1989)

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

Teodor-Daniil Stoienescu
The Unity of the Church according to St. Cyprian of Carthage

BOOK REVIEWS

Vasile Rojneac, Sfântul Niceta de Remesiana. Viaţa şi activitatea (Saint Nicetas of Remesiana. His life and activity), Cluj-Napoca, Cluj University Press, 2017, 330 pp.

(Răzvan Perşa)

Zachary Chitwood, Byzantine Legal Culture and the Roman Legal Tradition, 867-1056, Cambridge University Press, 2017, 248 pp.

(Traian Nojea)

Rev. Constantin Dron, The Current Value of the Canons, Editura Doxologia, Iaşi, 2016, 168 pp.

(Petru Ursulescu)
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The Orthodox Dogmatic Theology in the 21st Century. A Decade of Inter-Orthodox Dialogue on Dogmatic Issues

Rev. Prof. Cristinel Ioja

STUDIES AND ARTICLES

Nicolae Moşoiu

Some Considerations Regarding the Lutheran Doctrine of Justification with Special Reference to Father Dumitru Stăniloaes View and to Two Important Documents

Cristian Sonea

The Issue of Women Ordination. A Challenge for Orthodox Theology in the 21^st Century

Nicuşor Beldiman

An Overview of Romanian Sermon from the Beginnings to the 20th Century

Adrian Murg

The Benefits of Reading the Holy Scriptures, according to Saint John Chrysostom

Dieter Brandes

The Need for Reconciliation in Europe. Part II

Tiberiu Ardelean

Gheorghe Mandicevschi – Oratory -“And It Was at Six o’Clock”. A Theological and Musical Analysis

Vicenţiu Românu

Ecclesiological Aspects in the Theology of Father Justin Popovitch

Nicolae Preda

L’Hymnographie de la fete de la Nativite du Seigneur (reperes theologiques et liturgiques)   

BOOK REVIEWS

Mark D. Chapman (ed.), Hope in the Ecumenical Future, Palgrave Macmillan, Oxford, 2017, 226 p.

(Traian Nojea)

Donald Bolen, Nicolas Jesson, Donna Geernaert, Towards Unity. Ecumenical Dialogue 500 Years after the Reformation, introduction by Cardinal Walter Kasper. New York/ Mahwah NJ, Paulist Press, 2017; 382 pp. (ISBN 987 0 8091 5349 7)

(Iuliu-Marius Morariu)

Rev. Associate Professor PhD Cristian Sonea, Missionary paradigms. From Edinburgh to the Council of Crete, Presa Universitară Clujeană, 2016, 248 pp.

(Casian Ruşeţ)
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The Specificity of Orthodox Theology in the University 25 Years of Orthodox Theological Education in Arad

by Rev. Prof. Cristinel Ioja

STUDIES AND ARTICLES

Caius Cuțaru
Desacralization and Resacralization in Mircea Eliade’s Vision

Sebastian Moldovan
Addictions and Orthodox Spirituality. Towards a Model of Human Behavior

Dieter Brandes
The Need for Reconciliation in Europe (Part I)

Daniel Lemeni
Holiness and Power: The Nature of Ecclesiastical Guidance in Early Byzantium

Iuliu-Marius Morariu
The Romanian Delegations to the Holy Pan-Orthodox Synod of Crete (2016) and to the its preliminary assemblies and their importance for theological discussions

Nicolae Preda
Le Trisagion pour les défunts (analyse historico-liturgique)

Traian Nojea
The Reformes of Pope Gregory VII (1073-1085): Some Canonical Considerations

BOOK REVIEWS

Dr. Iustin Popovici, The Canonic Law of the Romanian Orthodox Church in force and its springs. Critical analysis based on the Holy Canons (Dreptul Canonic al Bisericii Ortodoxe Române în vigoare și izvoarele sale. Analiză critică pe baza Sfintelor Canoane) [Το ισχύον δικαίο της Ορθόδοξης Εκκλησίας της Ρουμανίας και οι πηγές του. Κριτική Θεόριση επί τη βάσει των ιερών κανόνων], Grēgorē Publishing House, Athens, 2017, 230 p.

(Marcel Tang)

Michiel Decaluwe, Thomas M. Izbicki and Gerald Christianson (eds.), A Companion to the Council of Basel, Brill, Leiden, 2016, 556 p.

(Rev. Traian Nojea)
Paul Evdokimov, The Mystery of Love. The Holiness of Marital Union in the Light of the Orthodox Tradition, Bucureşti, Sophia Printing House, 2016, 247p.

(Vasile-Eugen Suciu)
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EDITORIAL

The Holy And Great Synod – Sinodality and Co-Responsibility in the Current World

by Rev. Prof. Cristinel Ioja, PhD

STUDIES AND ARTICLES

Benjamin Simon

Justice, Zedeka and Ubuntu –A Relational Understanding

Mihai Iordache

Faith, Divine Grace and Human Freedom in the Thinking of the Protestant Theologian Karl Barth

Daniel Alic

Church Personalities from the Diocese of Caransebeş Who Supported the Great Union

Olivia Andrei

Theological and Moral Principles as a Foundation for a Christian Education. The Vision of Paul Evdokimov (1901-1970)

Marcel Tang

St. Isaac the Syrian in the Spiritual and Experimental Consciousness of the Contemporary Athonite Fathers

Cosmin Santi

The State of The Souls between the Particular Judgement and the Universal Judgement according to the Orthodox Cult Books

BOOK REVIEWS

Sorin Șelaru, Unity and Communion in the Church, Orthodox Ecclesiology Studies, Eikon Publishing, 2015, 235p.

(PhD student, Rev. Cristian Rădulescu)

Cristinel Ioja, Marcel Tang, Orthodox Theological Education in Arad. Itinerary. Forms. Perspectives, Publishing House of the Archdiocese of Arad, 2016, 298p.

(PhD student, Rev. Cristian Rădulescu)

Veronica della Dora, Landscape, Nature, and the Sacred in Byzantium, Cambridge University Press, 2016, 294 p.

(Daniel Lemeni)
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