Eduard Ferenţ: Apărarea identităţii noastre creştine, prilej de maturizare umană şi spirituală

History was and remains Mater et magistra. It teaches always while the world is elder and elder, while the faith in God darkens and the morality of the society softens. It teaches that, while the fervor of life debilitates, God as the permanent Lord of the humanity, in the mystery of his goodness, raises new personalities, because he is being concerned with both the strengthening of the faith and the reforming of the conduct of the society. In this article, Fr. Eduard Ferenţ emphasizes the events and the personalities who evoke the spirit and the mentality of the predecessors. In this mentality can be remarked that during the recent history the vivid need to defense the human and the Christian identity determined many people to resist even with the sacrifice of their own life. This resistance constitutes the moment of the maturation as human being and Christians.

DT252_Eduard Ferenţ

Alexandru Zub: Aspecte spirituale în închisorile regimului comunist

The resistance to the oppression and the moral survival in the prisons of the communist regime were rooted especially on faith, no matter the confession, and the confessional membership was not an impediment for the dialogue and the fraternal cohabitation. Despite the immense bibliography, the author evokes in this article only some examples from an enormous casuistic whose analysis is just at the beginning. In the first part of this article, there are mentioned a series of memorials studies and the modalities of recuperating the data from the communist period which highlighted especially the horrors, the cruelty, the actions of that system. In the second part there are presented the examples of the people who had the tragic destiny through supporting the Calvary of the detention.

DT251_Alexandru Zub

Ferenţ Eduard

• Strigătul unui păstor patern în vederea evanghelizării credincioşilor săi
• Apărarea identităţii noastre creştine, prilej de maturizare umană şi spirituală
• Cristologia lui Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905-1988)
• Un nou suflu în teologia dogmatică
• Noua evanghelizare a Bisericii Romano-Catolice de Iaşi de-a lungul Sinodului Diecezan de la Iaşi (08.12.2001 – 08.12.2004)
• Euharistia, taina Preasfintei Treimi şi a Bisericii
• Preasfânta Treime mântuitoare
• Misterul lui Cristos în contextul cristologiilor actuale
• Dimensiunea kerigmatică a colocviului teologic
• Persoana Tatălui în lumina învăţăturii sfântului Toma de Aquino
• Motivaţia teologică a angajării sociale
• Un Duh şi două pneumatologii

Dancă Wilhelm

• Biserica şi Statul la Mons. Anton Durcovici
• Rugăciunea şi căderea comunismului în România
• Rezistenţa anticomunistă prin valori spirituale
• Educaţia ca armonie între credinţă şi cultură, astăzi
• Pentru promovarea valorilor etice şi spirituale în activităţile economice
• Omul şi economia de piaţă astăzi
• Formarea permanentă: Când şi pentru cine?
• Benedict al XVI-lea şi iubirea. Eros, agape şi philia în enciclica Deus caritas est
• Identitatea creştină şi valorile Europei de astăzi
• Dumnezeu, Europa şi religiile. Identitatea creştină şi pluralismul religios
• Moştenirea Conciliului al II-lea din Vatican
• Constituţia dogmatică despre Biserică Lumen gentium
• Decretul despre Bisericile Orientale catolice Orientalium ecclesiarum
• Decretul despre ecumenism Unitatis redintegratio
• Declaraţia despre relaţiile Bisericii cu religiile necreştine Nostra aetate
• Ce facem cu adevărul în spaţiul public?
• Morala comunicării adevărului. Dialogul dintre filozofie, teologie şi ştiinţă
• Dialogul dintre artă şi credinţă
• Evanghelizarea şi îndreptarea privirii spre Cristos
• Omul recent şi noua evanghelizare
• Ce lucru bun să fac, ca să am viaţa veşnică?
• Pentru adevăr: Petru sau Pilat?
• Conciliul al II-lea din Vatican, izvor de reînnoire
• Cercetarea teologică şi sinodul diecezan de la Iaşi (2001-2004)
• Predarea religiei în şcoală
• Creştinismul este o religie?
• Familia ca formă de rezistenţă la ideologii. Introducere în operele de tinereţe ale papei Ioan Paul al II-lea
• „Familia creştină” în magisteriul papei Ioan Paul al II-lea. Antologie de texte magisteriale
• Euharistia şi întruparea după sfântul Toma d’Aquino
• Omul ca imagine a Sfintei Treimi după Sfântul Augustin
• Dimensiunea cristologică a dialogului teologic
• Dumnezeu fără Dumnezeu
• Doctrina sau învăţătura socială a Bisericii?
• Drepturile şi obligaţiile părinţilor în educaţia copiilor
• Sfântul Duh şi religiile necreştine
• Pentru dialog

Grocholewski Zenon

• Verità e libertà. Un problema fondamentale

Eduard Ferenţ: Strigătul unui păstor patern în vederea evanghelizării credincioşilor săi

Through a dogmatic approach to the theme of secularism, pr. prof. Edward Ferenţ analyzed the context and the coordinates of the evangelization as it is seen by the Second Council of Vatican and by the first bishop of Iasi, Nicolae Iosif Camilli, and then is looking for an answer that is given by secularism to the new evangelization of people from the third millennium. Firstly, starting from the documents of the Second Council of Vatican, the author shows which is the social context of the new evangelization – secularization of the human life, that is the removal of people from God. Then the author exposes the coordinates of the evangelization of the first Shepherd of the Dioceses of Iasi, Bishop N.I. Camilli, presenting the paternal shout of this bishop as it is presented in a discourse addressed to the Catholics from Paris. Finally, the author, starting from the text of the bishop of Iasi, shows that even in that time the Dioceses of Iasi intended to answer to secularization through a new evangelization of man. In conclusion, pr. prof. E. Ferenţ shows what the new evangelization should defend: identity of the Christ, the primacy of the Kingdom and the centrality of salvation, the identity of the church, the Sacramental identity of the church, and the human dignity.

DT266_Pr Eduard FERENŢ

Wilhelm Dancă: Biserica şi Statul la Mons. Anton Durcovici

Starting from eighteen declarations of Msgr. Anton Durcovici in the prison of the Ministry of Interior Affairs from Bucureşti, pr. prof. Wilhelm Dancă analyses the relation between Church and State as it result from the declarations of the Bishop of Iasi, underlining the problem of secularism. The author’s intention is to discover how Anton Durcovici opposed to the invasion of the State-Party in the life of the Church, analyzing firstly the soviet archetypal of relation between Church and State, archetypal where there is a difference between status de iure (separation between Church and State and School) and status de facto (the pressings on the Catholic and Orthodox Church), and in the second part the implementation of this model to the Romanian area conforming to his declarations from prison; from this declarations results that the great preoccupation of the communist regime in the period 1947-1948 was to eliminate the presence of the Catholic Church from the public life. In conclusion, the author mentions that the motivation received from Msgr. Anton Durcovici in front of secularization and secularism can be characterized through two words: education and charity.

DT265_Pr Wilhelm Dancă

Flavio Pajer: L’educazione religiosa tra identità confessionali, dialogo interreligioso e spiritualità secolari

The theme of this article is the religious education, seen in the view of the religious identity, of the interreligious dialogue and of the secular spirituality, in the context of a multicultural and globalized word. In the first part of the article, the author analyzed the religious identity in front of the “different”, identity that is considered to be more fragile. That is why, in the second part, he is asking what kind of identity has to be promoted in a pluralist context, trying to give an answer to this important question of our society. In the third part, Prof. Flavio Pajer shows that public education has to be like a chamber of dialogue, a stimulus for living together, which does not lead to uniformity, but rather to responsibility. Finally, there are exposed the new religious competences necessary for living in pluralism.

DT264_Prof. Dr Flavio PAJER

Zenon Grocholewski: Verità e libertà. Un problema fondamentale

In the allocution presented in the occasion of receiving the title of Doctor honoris causa from the University „Al.I. Cuza” of Iaşi, his Eminence Card. Zenon Grocholewski analyzed the fundamental problem of today’s society, the one of truth and liberty. In the beginning, the author notices that man, by his unique nature, aspires to these two great values, interconnected values, because the fidelity to truth determines the exercise of liberty, and this not only theoretically but also practically, in action, fact that leads to conquer the true human and social progress. Our model, worthy to be followed is Jesus Christ, the fulfillment of truth which liberates man. As the author mentions, Christian freedom assumes two valences: to follow the Christ and vivere in conspectu Dei. After analyzing liberty in the relation with the law of Decalogue, the Cardinal Grocholewski presents the figure of the Christ, who is truth, love and the new law for umanity; that is why only the Eucharist is the „food for the hungry man seeking for truth and liberty”.

DT263_Card GROCHOLEWSKI

Tarciziu Şerban: Profilul „omului nou” în Scrisoarea către Efeseni

Starting from the Saint Paul’s Epistle to Ephesians, the author of the dissertation analyzed the profile of the Newman as it is exposed by the Apostle to the Gentiles. The premise is the model offered by the people of present time, people of an impeccable moral behavior and of a strong faith, who are now saints. In the first part of this article, there is presented the metaphoric language from Ef 6,10-20, that is the Saint Paul’s way to present the spiritual fight of the Christian, by comparing it with a triumphal battle of a very well equipped soldier. In the second part, there are a few metaphoric notions, which sketched a profile of the addressees of the St. Paul’s Epistle to Ephesians, asking them to acquire the four virtues enumerated in the vv. 14-16 of the same chapter. In Conclusions, the author shows how the two semantic levels – metaphorical and metaphorised – joined and build a message.

DT262_PrTarciziu Şerban