Late Antiquity | Martyria

Studia Theologica No. I (III) / 2017 ‘One soul in two bodies’. On Christian friendship in Late Antiquity Bogdan Tătaru-Cazaban

Genuine friendship, founded on virtue and communion in faith, is the central theme of this study, which examines how Saints Gregory the Theologian, Basil the Great and Augustine integrated the classical Aristotelian-Platonic ideal of philia into Christian spirituality, ranging from the emblematic experience of the two Cappadocians to John Cassian’s systematic treatment in the Collationes.

Studia Theologica No. I (III) / 2017 On spiritual charisms in the works of Saint John Cassian Archimandrite Nectarie Șofelea

This article analyses Saint John Cassian’s teaching on spiritual charisms, drawing on the Second Conversation with Father Nestor, and examines the foundations of thaumaturgy, the relationship between charisms and divine love, and the danger of false charismaticism. The reader comes to understand that, in the Cassianian view—rooted in the Chrysostomian and Philokalic traditions—love and freedom from passions surpass in value any spectacular gift of the Holy Spirit.

Studia Theologica No. II (II) / 2016 Saint Antim Ivireanul, Hierarch and Martyr, defender of the true faith and a pillar of Romanian culture His Eminence Varsanufie

This article analyses the theology of the confession of faith in the writings and work of Saint Antim Ivireanul, Hierarch and Martyr, Metropolitan of Wallachia, highlighting that true confession is the essential condition for salvation and the norm of Christian life. Through the Didache, through the printing of books in Râmnic and through his martyr’s death, Antim Ivireanul embodied the living confession of the Word of God in the service of the Church and the Romanian people.

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