VOLUME 8(2) • 2020
Saint John Chrysostom – the quintessential, preeminent rhetorician and preacher of the Christian Church
ABSTRACT. Chrysostom had a profound knowledge of the human soul and for this reason his speeches were so indelibly ingrained in the Christians’ consciences and had a profound impact on their souls. In my paper, I wish to emphasize, starting from the writings of St. John Chrysostom, that the homilies..
De hominis dignitate in St. Gregory of Nazianzus’ Poetry
ABSTRACT. Entitlement can be understood in two different ways: first, you do something meritorious and somebody gives you a title or entitles you in some way; second, you inherit a title without having done great things necessarily. In St. Gregory of Nazianzus’ poetry we find both kinds of entitleme..
“Tears of Saints”. Aspects of the Persecution against Faith in the Romanian Concentrationary System
ABSTRACT. The study “Tears of Saints” considers some of the humiliations and sufferings endured by the Romanian Orthodox Church, during the second half of the last century, caused by the atheistic communist regime. The author emphasizes the brutality of the “reeducation” and of the “Pitești experime..
The Logos and the Incarnation in St. Cyril of Alexandria’s Commentary on John
ABSTRACT. St. Cyril’s Christological preoccupations focus on the doctrine of the divine Logos turned into man in a πρόσωπον. The starting point, but also the end of his Christology, is the truth contained in the text of the Gospel of John: “And the Word was made flesh” (John 1:14). One of the questi..
Dysthymia. The Case of George Bacovia
ABSTRACT. With half a mind to George Bacovia (1881-1957), early onset dysthymia with melancholic features is associated with alcohol abuse and complicated by episodes of major depression in 1913, 1928, 1930, 1936 – at such grim times the clinical diagnosis being “double depression.” And yet, notwith..