Jürgen Habermas | Martyria

Studia Theologica No. II (XX) / 2025 Critical pedagogy and religious education Professor, PhD Evanghel Pepés

This article analyses the relationship between critical pedagogy — based on Habermas’s theory and developed by Mezirow, Giroux and McLaren — and Orthodox Christian religious education, examining whether the principles of critical thinking are compatible with the teaching of Orthodox truth. The conclusion is that Orthodox epistemology, which defines the knowledge of God as an existential and personal encounter, does not contradict freedom and critical reflection, but rather presupposes them.

Studia Humanitatis No. I (XIX) / 2025 Orthodoxy in the Face of Contemporary Challenges Professor, PhD Constantin Cotziópulos

Taking as its starting point the death of Pope Francis and the current debates on the role of religion in the public sphere, this article analyses the contribution of the Orthodox Church and its theology to the cultural, social and diplomatic life of 21st-century Europe. It examines the themes of religious diplomacy, Europe’s Christian roots as reflected in the Treaty of Lisbon, and Orthodoxy’s ability to respond to the challenges of secularism, fundamentalism and transhumanism.

Studia Theologica No. II (IV) / 2017 The Icon in Postmodernity: The New Idolatry of Today’s World Pr. conf. univ. dr. habil. David Pestroiu

Pornind de la definiția postmodernității ca neîncredere în meta-narative, formulată de Jean-François Lyotard, articolul analizează provocările pe care individualismul hedonist, relativismul adevărului și cultura consumului le ridică în fața etosului comunitar eclezial și a misiunii Bisericii. Lectura critică a autorilor Philip Sampson, Jürgen Habermas, Stanley Grenz și Pam Smith conturează un răspuns pastoral și misionar articulat, chemat să redescopere sensul autentic al existenței în comuniunea cu Dumnezeu.