Teologie iasi dumitru staniloae biography
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Great Romania – ‘The Garden of the Mother of God’ and the ‘patriarch’ of Romanian Theology and Spirituality, Father Dumitru Stăniloae
"Touching Saints in a Kiss" or the Icon Experience in Professor Father Dumitru Stăniloae "the Confessor"
Abstract. Father Dumitru Staniloae, state of the art interpreter and fine connosseur of patristic literature, based his meditation and theological feeling on Holy Fathers writings combatting the iconoclasticism, bringing forth the outstanding contributions of patristic authors before and after the iconoclastic period, beginning with St. Athanasius the Great, Capadoccian Fathers, St. Maximus the Confessor, ending up with St. Gregory Palamas and St. Simeon of Thessalonic. For the foresitter of romanian theology, the real presence in the world of Jesus Christ as a human being is the argument forte within theology of icon's foundation. Paradoxically, the saints astounding aspect, embodied in their iconic infused of divine powe
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A Theology of the World: Dumitru Stăniloae, the Traditional Worldview, and Contemporary Cosmology
‘A Theology of the World: Dumitru Stăniloae, the Traditional Worldview, and Contemporary Cosmology.’ Pages 205-22 in Orthodox Christianity and Modern Science: Tensions, Ambiguities, Potential. Edited by Vasilios N. Makrides and Gayle Woloschak. Science and Orthodox Christianity 1. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2019. A Theology of the World: Dumitru Stăniloae, the Traditional Worldview, and Contemporary Cosmology Doru Costache St Cyril’s Coptic Orthodox Theological College Sydney College of Divinity Introduction The greatest Romanian Orthodox theologian ever, Father Dumitru Stăniloae (d. 1993) was a traditional thinker guided bygd patristic wisdom, whose theological enterprise, ecclesially minded, was ultimately motivated by the pursuit of helighet. Scholars have emphasized his holistic cast of mind and nuanced approach to all things, tillsammans with his contributions to a variety of field
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From the perspective of man’s relation to the transcendent God, a central concept in the thought of father Dumitru Stăniloae is that of "transcending", of self-transcendence, of man going beyond himself towards his neighbours and towards his deeper self, towards the mystery of the world and of existence in general, culminating with the fundamental act of transcending towards the divine Absolute. He uses this concept in almost all areas of theology: gnoseology, anthropology, cosmology, ecclesiology, mysteriology, eschatology, spirituality, as well as when discussing ideas of important existentialist and personalist philosophers of the 20th century. According to Stăniloae, God’s transcendence reveals itself as holiness, while Christ, the God-Man, who makes possible man’s convergent and unitary act of transcending, is the "true transcendence". The real correspondence between transcendent and transcendental emphasizes the Christological fo