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TEOLOGIA TEOLOGIA Orice corespondenţă se va adresa: Any correspondence will be sent to the fol- lowing address: FACULTATEA DE TEOLOGIE FACULTATEA DE TEOLOGIE 310096 ARAD 310096 ARAD Strada Academiei Teologice Nr. 9 Strada Academiei Teologice Nr. 9 Tel/Fax: 0040-257-285855 Tel/Fax: 0040-257-285855 Preţuri/ Prices: Uniunea Europeană (UE): 1 abonament (4 exemplare/ copies = 24 €; 1 exemplar/ copy = 6 €) Alte ţări/ Other countries: 1 abonament (4 exemplare/ copies = 40 €; 1 exemplar/ copy = 10 €) UNIVERSITATEA „AUREL VLAICU” ARAD FACULTATEA DE TEOLOGIE ORTODOXĂ TEOLOGIA ANUL XVI, NR.2 (51), 2012 Editura Universităţii „Aurel Vlaicu” A R A D EDITORIAL STAFF PUBLISHER The Orthodox Theology Faculty from “Aurel Vlaicu” University of Arad PRESIDENT OF HONOR: M.R. Ph D. TIMOTEI SEVICIU, Archbishop of Arad CHAIRMAN OF EDITORIAL BOARD: Rev. PhD. IOAN TULCAN, „Aurel Vlaicu” University of Arad [email protected] EDITOR IN CHIEF: PhD. CRISTINEL IOJA, „Aurel Vlaicu” University of Arad [email protected] ADVISORY BOARD: Rev. PhD. ŞTEFAN BUCHIU, University from Bucharest ([email protected]); Rev. PhD. CON- STANTIN RUS, „Aurel Vlaicu” University of Arad ([email protected]); Rev. PhD. DANIEL BUDA, “Lucian Blaga” Univeristy from Sibiu ([email protected]); Rev. PhD. ERNST CHR. SUTTNER, Uni- versity from Wien ([email protected]); PhD. IRINI CHRISTINAKIS-GLAROS, University from Athens ([email protected]); PhD. DIMITRIOS TSELENGIDIS, University from Thessaloniki (tse- [email protected]); PhD. ARISTOTLE PAPANIKOLAOU, Lincoln Theology Center of Fordham University (U.S.A.) ([email protected]); Rev. PhD. FADI GEORGI, University from Balamand (fadi.georgi@ balamand.edu.lb); PhD. PYOTR MIHAILOV, St. Tihon’s Humanitarian University of Moscow (locuspetri@ rambler.ru); PhD. MICHEL STAVROU, “Saint Serge” Institute from Paris ([email protected]); PhD. ANDREAS HEISER, Humboldt University from Berlin ([email protected]) EDITORIAL BOARD: Rev. PhD. CAIUS CUŢARU, „Aurel Vlaicu” University of Arad ([email protected]); Rev. PhD. ADRIAN MURG, „Aurel Vlaicu” University of Arad ([email protected]); Rev. PhD. FILIP ALBU, „Aurel Vlai- cu” University of Arad (fi [email protected]); Rev. PhD. LUCIAN FARCAŞIU, „Aurel Vlaicu” University of Arad ([email protected]); Rev. PhD. ŞTEFAN NEGREANU, „Aurel Vlaicu” University of Arad ([email protected]) Text collection, correction, English translation summaries: Prof. ANCA POPESCU, GEORGIANA COSTESCU Desktop Publishing: CĂLIN CHENDEA “Aurel Vlaicu” University of Arad Publishing House Romania, Arad, Complex universitar M, Etaj I, Sala 82, Tel. 0257/219555, http://www.uav.ro/ro/resurse/editura-uav Printing House: SC “TIPO STAMPA” S.R.L. Arad Tel. 0257.349.004 Email: [email protected] TEOLOGIA review is a quarterly scientifi c publication, recognized by CNCS Institution in B category TEOLOGIA review is indexed in the database Index Copernicus (cod 6666) e-mail: [email protected] website: www.revistateologia.ro ISSN 2247-4382 ISSN-L 1453-4789 CONTENTS EDITORIAL Secularism and Religious Spirit in Modern Times ........................................ 7 STUDIES AND ARTICLES Adolf Martin Ritter Altchristliche Ethik zwischen Bibel und stoisch-platonischer Tugendlehre Eine Einführung in die Lektüre von Clemens Alexandrinus Quis dives salvetur ....................................................... 9 Michael Welker Das Genie des Paulus und sein Beitrag zur interdisziplinären Anthropologie ...................................................................27 Cristinel Ioja Emilian Vasilescu – An Apologist of Orthodox Values in the Context of Interwar Society.................................................................. 42 Michael Kinnamon The Theological Basis of Conciliar Ecumenism. International Consultation of National Councils of Churches (NCCs) and Regional Ecumenical Organizations (REOs) February 6-10, 2012 .............57 Michael Kinnamon Baza teologică a ecumenismului sinodal (conciliar). Consultarea internaţională a Consiliilor Naţionale ale Bisericilor (CNB) şi a organizaţiilor regionale ecumenice (ORE) 6-10 februarie, 2012 ......... 66 Constantin Rus Provisions of the Constitution of 1866, 1923 and 1938 on the religious ceremony of marriage ...........................................................75 ΓΙΑΝΝΗΣ Θ. ΜΑΖΗΣ ΤΑ ΘΕΙΑ ΕΠΑΓΓΕΛΜΑΤA: Ο ΘΕΟΣ ΑΡΧΙΤΕΚΤΩΝ, ΠΟΛΕΜΙΣΤΗΣ ΚΑΙ ΓΡΑΦΕΥΣ (ΜΙΑ ΣΗΜΕΙΟΛΟΓΙΚΗ ΑΝΑΛΥΣΗ) .... 90 5 TEOLOGIA 2 \ 2012 Adina Roşu Maecenas: ipso suo facto ............................................................................... 110 Gabriel Valeriu Basa The Eastern Church in the 9th Century Theological Profi le ..................... 118 BOOK REVIEWS Rev. Ph.D. Dumitru Megheşan, Jesus Prayer: Therapeutic Means of Mind Purifi cation, Oradea, University Press, 2010, 277 p. (Rev. Ph. D. Sorin Cosma) ............................................................................... 136 Richard N. Longenecker, Introducing Romans: Critical Issues in Paul’s Most Famous Letter. Grand Rapids and Cambridge: Eerdmans, 2011. pap. XXVII + 490 p. ISBN 978-0-8028-6619-6. (Rev. Ph. D. Adrian Murg) ............................................................................... 138 David G. Bissias, The Mystery of Healing – Oil, Anointing, and the Unity of the Local Church, Orthodox Research Institute, Rollinsford, New Hampshire, 2008 (Rev. Ph. D. Lucian Farcaşiu). ......................................................................... 141 Rev. Prof. Ph.D. Ioan Tulcan, Ilarion V. Felea’s Contribution to the Development of Orthodox Dogmatic Theology, “Aurel Vlaicu” University Press, Arad, 2010, 283 p. (Rev. Ciprian Sălăvăstru) ................................................................................. 144 WRITING REQUIREMENTS FOR THE STUDIES INCLUDED IN THE “TEOLOGIA” REVIEW .........................................149 AUTHORS LIST ............................................................................................154 6 CONTENTS EDITORIAL Secularism and Religious Spirit in Modern Times Much has been written about the phenomenon of secularization that af- fects contemporary religious space, this process was defi ned and its causes were analyzed, looking for the remedies as well. Based on these analyzes, we tried capturing some features of the secularization, features that drew our attention and which we consider to be the most important. In particular, Christian theology today faces the challenge of secular- ization phenomenon in the context of the postmodern and post-Christian society and the need to respond by resorting to the two sources of life that feed confession: the Holy Scripture and the Sacred Tradition, but the an- swer must be adapted to the postmodern human understanding. Although issues change during each historical epoch, the Revelation remains the same, because the world is God’s plan revealed in the incarnate Son of God accomplished in history. Theology is still meant to make intelligible the mystery of God’s descent to man to make him partaker of the divine nature (cf. II Peter 1, 4). In the science of religions, we have to say that beyond any fears meant to question the persistence of homo religiosus typology, the threat of the secular spirit, express our optimism about the survival of the human type, as it is stated in the very nature of man. Therefore, we venture to suggest that man is revealed to be human only in so far as it manifests itself as a re- ligious man, without the appearance of religiosity, the very survival of hu- man species on earth is threatened. Religiosity, seen as a sacred feeling and attempt to commune with him, gives the true measure of human dignity. The same opinion is Frithjof Schuon, showing that although, in our era, it is often spoken of humanism and its benefi ts, we forget, however, that the man «once abandoning the prerogatives in front of the matter, the car and of the quantitative science, ceases to be truly “human”». And in a footnote on the same page of the paper Understanding Islam. Introduction to the 7 TEOLOGIA Caius Cuţaru 2 \ 2012 World of Muslim Spirituality adds: “fully” human “is only what gives man maximum opportunity for the world beyond, which in fact, meets his deep- est nature”. There were previously two types of anti-religious attitudes. In com- munist countries in the East it was hoped that the religious uniformity and convergence will be achieved by abolishing or denying religion. Ex- ample in this regard was Albania where the atheist uniformity was forc- ibly imposed. In the sphere of the so-called free and democratic countries, it is hoped that religion would be abolished together with the scientifi c and technological progress, the religious dimension lacking to the new man, who will explain everything in a purely rational approach. Thus, it was argued that religion will die due to decay or suffocation. Modernism meant more than these two antireligious trends. It is enough to remind the precursors of modernism: the Enlightenment, positivism, scientism, Marxism, Kant that proposed that “religion within pure reason” the left Hegelian with Feuerbach and Marx, who denied God, considering religion as alienation or “opium” for the