Violeta Barbu: Biserica şi provocările secularismului: corpul şi etica lui

Body and ethics stands at the intersection of moral theology, anthropology, sociology and even culture in the broad sense of the term. In this article, Professor Violeta Barbu presents an anthropological perspective, the issue of body and of ethics, which has undergone many changes over the past five decades. Starting from the presentation of the Christian vision of the body during history, from St. Paul’s anthropology to the theology of the body of John Paul II, is now revealed the rift between body and soul that evolved to highlight the growing body in society and acquiring an overly important role. One common fronts of the Christian worldview and post-modern, but also a bone of contention, is the importance of body health and off-line medical and ethical biology. However, two problems are analyzed morally and socially,  euthanasia (mercy killing) and abortion. In conclusion, Prof. Violeta Barbu includes all processes related to the ethical vision issues associated body and the phenomenon of secularization, a phenomenon increasingly entering in our country.

DT271_Violeta Barbu

Mărtinaş Daniel

• Familia şi fenomenul emigrării

Iacovici Isidor

• Familia şi fenomenul imigrării

Tiba Felician

• Preotul şi familia creştină, formatori prin vocaţie sacră

Iulian Faraoanu: Aşteptarea creştină a venirii Fiului omului (Lc 17,26-30)

The eschatology problem is present everywhere in Saint Luke gospel. But, the tension and the eschatology waiting are in a close relationship with the history.
The fragment from Lc 17,26-30 is included in the same eschatology domain, more precise the theme related to the waiting of Jesus second coming. The comparison with the days of Noah and Lot have an exhortatory function, inviting the people of the Saint Luke community to look at the heavenly realities. The delay of Christ’s second coming does not have to determine a life orientated only to the humanly activities, in this forgetting God. The waiting of Christ’s coming must always be alive, knowing that the Lord may come soon and his coming must find us ready.

DT288_Iulian Faraoanu

Iulian-Valerian Ianuş: Conceptul de persoană la Jacques Maritain

The Christian anthropology has at its base the concept of the person. The anthropologic oration of Jacques Maritain is focused on the human person as well, with its own characteristics. Maritain, commentator of Tomas de Aquino, takes from Thomism the general structure of his anthropology. His oration starts from the distinction between „specimen” and „person”, present distinction since first works. For the Maritain anthropology is characteristic that it is a metaphysical base. In this respect, we find in the texts of the French thinker a profound analysis of the ontological structure of a person: subsistence, understood as that, in its specific nature, has its being in and for itself; and personality (in a metaphysical sense, not psychological), seen as a balance between subjectivity and objectivity, between independence and dependence, through which the child is growing up and accepts actively the human condition.

DT287_Iulian Ianus

Iosif IACOB: Căsătoria, sacrament al noii alianţe

Documents of Vatican II as Lumen Gentium, Apostolicam Actuositatem, Sacrosanctum Concilium, and especially Gaudium et Spes highlight the interest that the Church manifests for the Sacrament of Matrimony, in the context of developments and new vision proposed by the present society (divorce, abortion, feminist movements etc.).The contemporary society, following a long and reinforced theological tradition of marriage, is called to implement into the family life of our times, the principles proposed by the gospel in order to live a married life “in Christ”.The biblical vision of the human person, the way the nature and the grace are perceived are points of departure and reference for a complex and objective view on the sacrament of marriage. The nature, the value, the effects and purposes of marriage proposed by the ecclesiastical tradition are fundamental aspects that give consistency to the consent of sacramental marriage.The conjugal morality has its ultimate foundation not in human laws but in the divine laws that man cannot change according to its own interests. The state, as representative and guardian of the community wellbeing, is charged with promoting the values and principles for the good of the family and implicitly of the society itself, whose basic unit is the family. In this regard the Council encourages the closeness between the values of the doctrine and the spirit of today’s society, as well as raising public awareness to doctrinal lasting values of faith. The personalist vision proposed by the council, as well as the vocation to holiness in married life, along with what love and procreation represents in a full and stable community of conjugal life corresponds to the values proposed by the Church as a sacramental reality of marriage, according to Christ’s will for the wellbeing of the person and all mankind.

DT286_Pr Iacob

Daniel Mărtinaş: Familia şi fenomenul emigrării

In this article, the author examines the family in the context of increasingly  widespread phenomenon of migration, based on existing realities in the local Church of Iasi. First, he talks about the changes in society with the fall of the communist regime and the need to impose family migration. Then he  summarizes the implications of migration on the family. He still refers to the
harsh reality that many families emigrated collide, in reality much different
from what they had been promised before departure. In these dramatic circumstances, the author wonders how the Church works, both the local and the
universal context. All he replied by concrete examples involving the Church for
spiritual and material support to the immigrants. Not overlooked consequences
of migration for family institution, is actually shown some of these, with a particular focus on the case of young people who live without marrying, bringing
some arguments and remedies to this situation. The article ends with the
report-labor of emigration.

DT285_Daniel Mărtinaş

Isidor Iacovici: Familia şi fenomenul imigrării

Assuming that none of the family who went abroad did not choose this way of looking at God, to the saints, but to earn money, which is the author analyzes the phenomenon of immigration issues and the impact of this phenomenon on family. First, the author indicates that the family is forced to emigrate and highlights the reasons for this need, but also dangers involved. Another painful reality treated by Fr. James I. Nonconformity is the promise to reality in the sending country. In this context, the author talks about church involvement in immigration phenomenon by sending priests to spiritual care of their countrymen by helping immigrants and different cultural and spiritual manifestations. Further, the author analyzes the family in the context of migration and its consequences, among which is that of coexistence sacrament against which they are made some arguments and remedies. Finally, it deals with immigrants and jobs they provide in the host country.

DT284_Isidor Iacovici

Felician Tiba: Preotul şi familia creştină, formatori prin vocaţie sacră

The author of the article which follows, examines issues priest and the Christian family as trainers through sacred vocation. First, Fr. F. Tiba deals with the genesis of this reality that is called „family”, seeking his roots on her moments of glory, and the fall, identifying his needs. The author states that the natural family is the first institution that goes beyond Christianity, Christ is love novelty and establishing the sacrament of Matrimony. Further, based on the symbolism bones, Fr. F. Tiba emphasizes the dignity of women, but also its role in the knowledge of God by man. After speaking of the influence of sin on the relationship between man and God, man, woman, the author deals with the establishment of the sacrament of Matrimony by Jesus Christ, and then make a picture of the contemporary family. After analyzing the relationship between priest and family, talking about his childhood and youth as two stages in the preparation of marriage, then discusses the newly created family. Finally, before talking about forming family, the author presents some coordinates of family formation.

DT283_Felician Tiba