Ciprian Streza

• Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu

The purpose of this article is to demonstrate that patristic theology has resolved the problem of God’s immutability, which is affirmed paradoxically Holy Scripture. This resolution has been achieved through clarifying of the distinction between God’s essence and his uncreated energies. The Eastern Fathers successfully synthesized key theological c...

Secularism is a very popular topic in social sciences and in theology. Father Alexander Dmitrievich Schmemann (1921–1983) addressed this topic and raised many questions, which are still very relevant in today’s Eastern European context. He presented the distinctive vision of the Eastern Church, according to which all the solutions to overcome the a...

Secularism is a very popular topic in social sciences and in theology. Father Alexander Dmitrievich Schmemann (1921–1983) addressed this topic and raised many questions, which are still very relevant in today’s Eastern European context. He presented the distinctive vision of the Eastern Church, according to which all the solutions to overcome the a...

Migration, as the displacement of peoples, triggered throughout the centuries by wars, natural disasters, political oppression, poverty and famine, religious persecution is a profound human experience and an intimate part of the biblical saga from the beginning, along with the social, anthropological and spiritual issues it raises. The history of I...

Saint Basil the Great wrote one of the most important and widely acknowledged Eucharistic texts in the Eastern Orthodox Church, a liturgical anaphora that bears his name. Before the dawn of the second millennium, this was the main Eucharistic text used in Constantinople and in the territories under its authority. In the modern time of digital media...

The Mystery of Marriage has always been understood by the Eastern Orthodox as a divinely mandated holy act, in which the grace of the Holy Spirit is communicated to the affianced man and woman, whose natural bond of love becomes thus elevated to the state of representation of the all-encompassing spiritual union between Christ and His Church. Accor...

The history of the Romanians in Transylvania acknowledges Saint Metropolitan Andrei Şaguna's shepherding of the Church as a reference point, that had crucially contributed to the creation of the Romanian people's unity of conscience, which ultimately led to the Great Union in 1918. The great Metropolitan knew that a people enlightened through cultu...

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The post-modern secular society is questioning all traditional Christian values in an attempt to create a new kind of religious life and through the transformation of old religious elements in something else than religion. This new “religious life” is characterized by a process of an overall re-shaping of the whole human world through re-absorption...

The two expressions: «The Wholesome Faith» [r (,ytcdvouoa 311aT11] and cThe Kerygma of Piety that the great Cappadocian hierarch used throughout his work, talk about the strategy that he employed in his quest to defend and promote the living and tangible truth of the Gospel. Saint Basil the Great explained the dogma starting from the liturgical and...

As the modern world oscillates between powerful contrasts and profound discords, while promoting an individualistic relativism and placing excessive value on the biological life, seen as the only means towards fulfillment for a human existence reduced almost exclusively to the material plane, as the modern secularist views dispute Christian spiritu...

Father Dumitru Staniloae’s complex and integral vision on the Holy Liturgy comprises all the dimensions of life in the church; it constitutes the object of this study, which intends to re-interpret, systematize, and evaluate the teaching of St. Cyril of Alexandria concerning the importance of the Eucharistic Synaxis in the life of the Church. The E...

For the Orthodox tradition the whole act of salvation appears like a revelation and activation of this treasure hidden in the depths of our hearts, like a perpetual updating of the death and resurrection with Christ, Whom we have clothed ourselves with at the Baptism. The patristic theology has always admitted to the connection between the Holy Spi...

In the modern society, despite all technological progress, addictive behaviour has become a real concern for scientists, practitioners and theologians. The tendency of pains reduction and awareness, the search for enhanced sense of control and self-esteem satisfaction, the wish for escaping the social and psychological problems of the modern world...

Illness and suffering have marked the human existence ever since Adam. Due to the great impact that these afflictions have always had on human life, the Church has directed her attention towards them, has theologised about them, and has included them in her rituals in an attempt to help men understand and defeat them through a life of communion wit...