No. 5-8, May-August 2014

Contents

CONFESSION OF CHRIST IN CHURCH AND SOCIETY

Andrei MACAR Faculty of Evangelical Theology, Department of Ecumenical Theology and the History of Eastern Christianity, Georg-August University, Göttingen, Germany
The Martyrdom of Saints Brâncoveni reflected in the writings of contemporaries and in the popular consciousness of the Romanian people
This study aims to illustrate the martyrdom of Saints Brâncoveni as it appears in the descriptions…
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Rev. Lect. PhD. Stelian MANOLACHE Faculty of Orthodox Theology, "Ovidius" University of Constanța
St. Constantin Brancoveanu and the liturgical books donated to the Church „St. Nicholas” from Schei Brasov
During a time when the three Romanian Countries, Moldova, Ardealul and Tara Româneasca, where…
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Conf. PhD. Carmen-Maria BOLOCAN Faculty of Orthodox Theology "Dumitru Stăniloae" of Iași
Aspects of sacred text religiosity by the Saints Metropolitans Dosoftei and Varlaam
The work of Holy Metropolitan Dosoftei is one of the most successful transpositions of biblical…
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Deac. Lect. PhD. Cătălin VATAMANU Faculty of Orthodox Theology "Dumitru Stăniloae" of Iași
Holy Hierarch Ilie Iorest, confessor and defender of Orthodoxy
In 2014, proclaimed from the Holy Synod of the Romanian Orthodox Church as „Commemorative Year of…
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Rev. Asist. PhD. Liviu PETCU Faculty of Orthodox Theology "Dumitru Stăniloae" of Iași
Romanian Pious and Witnesses — examples of patience and prayer for the sufferers
Romanian confessors and martyrs who endured the torments of the communist prisons, due to invented…
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Rev. Prof. PhD. Ioan C. TEȘU Faculty of Orthodox Theology "Dumitru Stăniloae" of Iași
The image of „spiritual father” in the writings of Elder Paisios the Hagiorite (I)
The study entitled The image of the spiritual father in the writings of Elder Paisios the Athonite…
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PhD. Oana-Mădălina POPESCU "Nicolae Iorga" Institute of History of the Romanian Academy, Bucharest
Aspects from the teaching activity of Iosif Naniescu
Our study presents, based on the published speeches and works and also on unpublished manuscripts,…
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Archim. Mihail DANILIUC Faculty of Orthodox Theology "Dumitru Stăniloae" of Iași
Life and work of Archbishop Emilian Antal
This study deals with the personality of a bishop less known in the tumultuous history of the last…
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Rev. PhD. Cand. Constantin CENUȘĂ Faculty of History and Geography from Suceava
The Metropolit Vladimir Repta (1841-1926)
Vladimir Repta is the last metropolitan bishop of Bukovina during the domination of the Austrian…
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Rev. PhD. Cand. Cristinel Ștefan TANASĂ Faculty of History, "Alexandru Ioan Cuza" University of Iasi
Bishop Visarion Puiu of Hotin, founder of large civil and ecclesiastical social work
Romanians across the Prut river have always found love for the Orthodox church and nation in which…
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TRANSLATIONS

PhD. Cand. Nicolai ZAGNAT
„Gramota” of Ivan the Terrible to Alexander Lapusneanu
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PhD. Cand. Nicolai ZAGNAT
Historical References about Wallachian rulers in the diplomatic correspondence of the Orthodox Muscovite state with Orthodox from Balkans, in the first half of the sixteenth century
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REVIEWS

Claudiu-Ioan COMAN „Al.I. Cuza” University, Iasi
Prof. PhD. Mihail DIACONESCU, The Orthodox theology and the art of word
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Prof. Emeritus PhD. Constantin MARIN Faculty of Letters of the University „Al. I. Cuza” from Iași
PhD. Rev. Liviu PETCU, Suffering and spiritual growth
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Valentin-Radu TRANDAFIR Faculty of Evangelical Theology, Department of Ecumenical Theology and the History of Eastern Christianity, Georg-August University, Göttingen, Germany
Rev. Ilie MACAR, The end of the world and man, between truth and utopia. Eschatology and heresy
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