Jean-Claude PERISSET: Mesaj

Christianity is an essential element of the European identity, but unfortunately this aspect was not admitted in the project for the European Constitution. This refusal gave birth to many polemic discussions and to diverse interpretations. In his message, the Apostolic Nuncio Jean-Claude Périsset transmits a cordial and fraternal salute, proposing also to consider thoroughly the valences of this Christian identity, which has to brink “flowers and fruits” also in the contemporary Europe

DT192_Jean-Claude PERISSET Mesaj

Wilhelm DANCĂ: Identitatea creştină şi valorile Europei de astăzi

Nowadays European society is registering passionate debates about the role of the Christian roots and of the religion in the structure of the new Europe, about the dialogue between Church and State, about the role of the lays both in the Church and in civilian society. Trying to put attention to this challenging problems, the Theological Roman-Catholic Institute of Iaşi organized the International Symposium “Christian identity and the values of the nowadays Europe”. In the introductory study, we can find out the objectives of the symposium and the framework of the discussions it occasioned: the orientation of the efforts in order to obtain an Europe – community of values, the discovering of new ways of practicing the historical memory in order to safeguard our religious tradition and culture, the contribution to the axiological edification of the good Romanian in order to become a good European. Finally, the author urges to the meeting with Jesus Christ, the Person – Event who founded the Christian values, whose aim is to give sense also nowadays people.

DT191_Wilhelm DANCĂ

Dumea Claudiu

• Diavolul şi exorcismele
• Constituţia despre liturgie Sacrosanctum Concilium
• Aplicarea reformei liturgice
• De la liturgia iudaică la Euharistia creştină
• Cântul în liturgia romană. Muzica cerească şi muzica pământească
• Sfânta Treime în liturgia romană
• Chipul maiestuos al Tatălui în liturgie
• Epicleza euharistică

Segatti Ermis

• Tendinţe în reînnoirea teologică din India. Despre Dumnezeu. Premise şi precursori

Nemoianu Virgil

• Două aspecte ale catolicismului american

Cagin Michel

• Génèvieve Fondane. O viaţă închinată misterului lui Israel

Petercă Vladimir

• Sursa nedreptăţilor şi a dezordinii din lume: nebunia. Comentariu la Ps 14
• Templul de la Ierusalim
• Protoevanghelia sau vestea bună a speranţei şi a aşteptării mesianice
• Noţiunea de sărăcie în Biblie şi în lumea de astăzi
• Reflecţii asupra Conciliului al II-lea din Vatican
• Revelaţia trinitară în învăţătura paulină
• Pedagogia lui Isus în parabolele evanghelice
• Un tată care ascultă
• Conceptul de Duh în cărţile sapienţiale

Wilhelm Dancă: Benedict al XVI-lea şi iubirea. Eros, agape şi philia în enciclica Deus caritas est

Saint John gave God an excellent definition: God is love. But, what can expressed these words today, when “love is one of the most used and abused word”? The author of this study, following closed the biography and the first encyclical letter of Benedict XVI, dispels the shadow of contempt which glided on the term eros, showing that there is a God’s eros, eros benevolentiae (different from eros concupiscentiae), which is in the same time agape. These two forms can not be separated they both setting up the nature of the true love. Philia (friendship) harmonises whit eros (the ascendant love) and agape (the descendent love), being the fulfilment of the communion both with God and with people. In the conclusion of this theological approach, the author gives the man’s mission a dynamic note: agape is the fundamental law of his life, and this love is not a conquered state but a permanent increase.

DT209_Wilhelm Dancă

Claudiu Dumea: Diavolul şi exorcismele

The contemporary society feels the Evil’s existence as presence and action, but avoids often attributing it the name “Devil”, this subject belonging to the category of taboos. The study surpasses these clichés and tries to underline the different form of Devil’s presence and to expose the main arms we have against him: exorcisms, as it results from the new Ritual of exorcism. The author indicates the exorcist’s qualities, the manifestations of the exorcised person before, during and after exorcism, the content of exorcisms’ prayers, and finally highlights that Devil’s existence is not a reality which depends on the opinion of the majority, but a hostile force which can influence the decisions and actions of nowadays people.

DT208_Claudiu Dumea

Emil Dumea: Cultură, cult şi interculturalitate: repere istorice şi ideologice europene contemporane

At the beginning of 2007, Romania joined UE, belonging in this way to the great intercultural family of the European states. This social-political context, which has also religious implications, explains the appearance of this essay. The author exposes the plenty of signification of the term culture applying it in the present times, bringing out into bold relief the relation with cult: culture without cult is cold and empty; cult without culture is the unjustified limitation of the human person. In the context of the European community the inter-cultural dialog is both a duty and an occasion of reciprocal knowledge and of communicating values. This dialog is able to eliminate tensions and schisms caused by the ignoring of the other partner, remaining in this way a permanent and reciprocal requirement.

DT207_Emil Dumea