Ştefan Lupu: Moştenirea spirituală a Fericitului John Henry Card. Newman

In this article it is analyzed the life and the activity of the Cardinal Newman and also a few theological ideas. In the first part of the article, the author refers on the life of the Cardinal, his spiritual life in different phases of his conversion. First he was a protestant converted to the Evangelic Church, then to the Anglican Church, and finally reached to the Catholic Church. In the second part of the article, Pr. Stefan Lupu presents Newman’s view on holiness, starting from the motto printed on his emblem as Cardinal: Cor ad cor loquitur – Heart speaks to heart. There are presented the Newman’s notions on the necessity of holiness, both on the concrete one and the offered one, then on holiness as challenge, and finally on the personal holiness in Newman’s theology. At the end of the article, it is analyzed the sanctity of Newman, declared Blessed by the Pope Benedict the XVIth on 19th September 2010.

DT261_Pr Stefan LUPU

Sorondo Marcelo

• „Veritas liberavit vos”! Chiesa e secolarizzazione. Sfide e strategie pastorali

Dumea Emil

• Religie şi valori în era globalizării
• Biserică şi stat în România contemporană
• Cultură, cult şi interculturalitate: repere istorice şi ideologice europene contemporane
• Misiunea catolică din Moldova în secolul al XVIII-lea
• Creştinism şi istorie
• Monumente paleocreştine din Dobrogea
• Centesimus Annus

Possenti Vittorio

• Chiesa e secolarizzazione. Il cortile dei gentili
• Misterul lui Israel. J. Maritain şi Conciliul al II-lea din Vatican
• Fondamenti religiosi e laici della democrazia
• Noi che non sappiamo affatto che cosa sia la persona umana
• Cambiare la natura umana? Biotecnologie e questione antropologica

Minnerath Roland

• L’évangélisation et la postmodernité

Barbu Violeta

• Biserica şi provocările secularismului: corpul şi etica lui
• Memoria totalitarismului dintr-o perspectivă catolică. O dezbatere istorică
• Sinoadele locale din Ucraina, Polonia şi Constantinopol în epoca Contrareformei

Marcelo Sorondo: „Veritas liberavit vos”! Chiesa e secolarizzazione. Sfide e strategie pastorali

In this article, the author examines the biblical verse „Veritas vos liberavit” – “The truth will set you free” and the pastoral challenges and strategies in the secularization of the Church. The reference point in this study is the relationship between faith and reason, the ratio between them, being two forms of evangelization: from faith to reason, and from reason to faith. Based on this report, the author talks about the conflict between the objective and philosophical reflection in the human practice. In first place, Msgr. M. Sorondo analyzed the neurological sciences and self-interpretation, then talks about conflict in the brain, the mind, the soul and being, and finally to refer the issue of evolution and creation for human beings as a third place of conflict. In the treatment of the subject, the author makes use of both the Bible and the Magisterium of the Church, but also from different philosophers in different periods of history.

DT275_Marcelo Sorondo

Emil Dumea: Religie şi valori în era globalizării

In this article, Fr. Emil Dumea proposes a reflection on globalization and the influence of this complex phenomenon on religion. The first part is an overview of globalization, which includes multiple spheres of human activity: economic, social, technological, cultural, political, environmental, etc. After this general reflection, the author presents several historical stages of cultural globalization with reference to regional and local examples. In the last part there are opened to question values of the process of globalization in the context in which they differ from one culture to another, from one individual to another, both by training and continuity.

DT274_Emil Dumea

Vittorio Possenti: Chiesa e secolarizzazione. Il cortile dei gentili

In this article, the author examines the relationship between secularization and the Church in terms of „the court of the Gentiles” which is inserted in the report delicately between Church and secularization. Liberal democracies, different religions were equated time, that is why the public should take from them a position of indifference and neutrality, this is true for universal religions, which were required to be limited to long private sector. Such democracies have abandoned the Hegelian scheme in which religion is incorporated and abstracted in the evolution of society and true within the state; in Europe, in addition, they are removed the American scheme, in which religion is a foundation independent of the company, remaining separate politics. For all that, a significant change is unfolded in secular thinking of the environments.

DT273_Vittorio Possenti

Roland Minnerath: L’évangélisation et la postmodernité

From the beginning, Christianity has interacted with cultural elements that have ensured a greater ease in preaching and spreading the Gospel. Christianity entered a world where religion was part of the culture. Taking the starting points the cultural elements, Mons. Roland Minnerath wants to capture those key points that can be used in contemporary evangelization. First, there are highlighted the Christian elements that contributed to the formation of Western culture. Next, we analyze trends and principles which have replaced Christian culture with a secular culture, a phenomenon that led to the need for a new evangelization. In the last part, are brought to light deficiencies in the post-modern culture, among which the lack of future prospects and human helplessness in the face of death problem.

DT272_Roland Minnerath