psychosomatic anthropology

Studia Theologica No. I (XVII) / 2024 The Death of Contemporary Society. The Link between Pastoral Care and Science, Using the SARS-CoV-2 Virus as a Pretext Associate Professor Dr Nicolae Xionis

The article argues, drawing on the teachings of Saint Gregory the Theologian and Saint Maximus the Confessor, that the Church cannot be isolated from medical and political issues, as it perceives the human being as an integral psychosomatic entity. Through a theological analysis of death as disintegration and of the Covid-19 pandemic, the author demonstrates that compulsory vaccination and the social and moral divide between the vaccinated and the unvaccinated constitute a form of social death, to which the Church must oppose the unity of sacramental life.

Studia Theologica No. I (XIII) / 2022 Anthropological Insights into the Theology of Saint Gregory Palamas. The Role of Prayer in the Inner Formation of the Human Person. His Eminence Varsanufie

The anthropology of Saint Gregory Palamas is analysed in its ascetic and mystical dimensions, with an emphasis on the image of God in man, the relationship between νοῦς and καρδία, the trichotomy of body-soul-spirit, and the role of uncreated grace in deification. The deified human being, understood as homotheos, participates in the life of God through the uncreated energies, the body itself becoming a partaker in this eschatological transfiguration.

Studia Theologica No. I (XIII) / 2022 The Biblical and Patristic Theology of Prayer and its Existential Necessity Lecturer, Dr Ioniță Apostolache

This article analyses prayer in Holy Scripture, tracing its roots in the Jewish tradition (the synagogue, Temple, Shema Yisrael, Amidah) and in the Psalms of David, drawing on patristic exegesis by Saints Basil the Great, Ephrem the Syrian and John Chrysostom, and culminating in its liturgical, confessional and Eucharistic dimensions within the life of the Church.

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