VOLUME 7(1) • 2019
Faithful and devoted physicians – Heavenly people / Earthly angels
ABSTRACT. In ancient and more recent writings of Orthodox Spirituality, there is an emphasis on the greatness of the faithful unmercenary physician before God, the welcome physician with love for man. Our Good God works through the physician to heal the sick most of the time. In my paper, I wish to ..
“I feel illness as the love of Christ”
ABSTRACT. For the world, the Holy Mountain of Athos represents the homeland of holiness, an academy of deification, and the dwellers of this earthly heaven are the lights who lead us from the darkness and labyrinth of sins, to the harbour of salvation. Such a sublime example of deified life is Saint..
The silent sound of the stone: The sculpture of the “Three Holy Hierarchs” Monastery of Iasi
ABSTRACT. Unprecedented in the tradition of our architecture, this church was the most important and most spectacular edifice built up until then in Moldova. In 1642, the voivode Vasile Lupu and the Holy Metropolitan Varlaam completed the painting and masonry of the Princely Church of the new monast..
Some biblical considerations on the relationship between experience and education
ABSTRACT. Spiritual life cannot be seen in a theoretical way, man passes through several stages that build him and transform him, not only in an outward manner. It is then highly necessary to mind the inward changes. Otherwise, though religious, the person is not yet spiritual. Inner changes involve..
School-related stress in the postmodernist mirror
ABSTRACT. The educational process is extremely stressful for the student, at a psychological as well as a physiological level. In order to achieve a functional balance between the pupils’ well-being and the efficiency of the learning process, the school curriculum has to match pupils’ potential, wit..