VOLUME 7(3) • 2019
Facing the troubles – a true spiritual art. Spiritual words of St. Porphyrios
ABSTRACT. The Holy Mountain of Athos testifies on the beauty and accessibility of the Christian ideal – salvation, through the known and consecrated saints from the calendar of Christian perfection, as well as through the humble labourers who conceived themselves, being known only by God Whom they w..
Time and transcendence: ethical values in theological perspective
ABSTRACT. Having in view that ethics is the vehicle that helps us live together in a much better and meaningful way, but that it is also our vehicle to transcendence and the absolute, to that which is greater than ourselves, and that individualism is such a demon that blocks our way apparently so ef..
The Jetztzeit in Benjamin’s Berlin Childhood around 1900
ABSTRACT. This paper discusses Benjamin’s Berlin Childhood in terms of its temporal¬ity namely the Jetztzeit which the philosopher theorized about in many of his writings. The first part of the article reviews various approaches to time in Benjamin’s work whereas the second part focuses on the way t..
The science of the interiority and the quantification of the self. The approach of orthodox theology and neurosciences to inner life in the age of technology supremacy
ABSTRACT. In this research paper, we aim to formulate some considerations regarding a possible meeting point of the approaches to the inner life, as specified in the philocalic spirituality, and most recent ones, in the area of neuro¬sciences, adding some final remarks regarding some novel aspects i..
Father Otto Canisius Farrenkopf, SJ – a “fool for Christ” in the Romanian communist prisons
ABSTRACT. The present article is a special contribution to the discovery of the Catholic history in Romania. Similar to numerous members of clergy or laity that lived in the second half of the past century, Father Otto Canisius Farrenkopf, SJ (1888-1967) was and will remain an authentic role model i..