the Descent of the Holy Spirit

Studia Theologica No. I (XIII) / 2022 The Pneumatological Teaching of Saint Symeon the New Theologian Rev. Dr. Mercurie-Daniel Apostol

Saint Symeon the New Theologian’s theology of the Holy Spirit is presented in close connection with the Father and the Son, emphasising the unity and inseparability of the Persons of the Holy Trinity. Through images such as the key in Catechesis 33, the wine in Catechesis 23 and the divine seed, Saint Symeon demonstrates that the grace of the Holy Spirit is essential for purification, deification and the conscious perception of the divine presence in the human soul.

Studia Theologica No. II (IX) / 2019 ‘It was the Lord’s will that it should be printed’ by ‘the humble Antim Ivireanul’, a book ‘to be given as a gift to the Orthodox’ concerning ‘the schism of the Papists’ Hieromonk Antim Motorga

The study analyses The Book, or Light, with Clear Proofs from the Dogmas of the Eastern Church Concerning the Schism of the Papists, printed by Saint Antim of Ivirean at Snagov Monastery in 1699, a translation of the work by the hieromonk Maxim of the Peloponnese, produced against the backdrop of the spread of Catholic propaganda in Transylvania. The anti-Roman arguments concerning papal primacy, the procession of the Holy Spirit, unleavened bread and purgatory are presented, emphasising the polemical and catechetical value of the printed work, which remains, to this day, untransliterated into modern Romanian.

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