INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM OF SCIENCE, THEOLOGY AND ARTS
Christian Education in a Pluralistic Culture: Growing Children in Today's World May, 4-6, 2020
The four panels of Issta 2021
THE ROMANIAN DIASPORA AND THE CHALLENGES OF DIVERSITY
In the common language, the term ”diaspora” indicates the voluntary or imposed scattering or spreading of a country’s citizens outside of its borders. In the Biblical langage, the term refers to the scattering of the people of Israel from one end of … read more
HOME IN THE DIASPORA: THE ROMANIAN ORTHODOXY ABROAD AS AN IDENTITY LANDMARK AND MISSIONARY VOCATION
This panel aims at recovering micro-monographically, but not only, pastoral-misionare models of the Orthodox communities in the diaspora, which prove to be an intelligent and fruitful formula whereby … read more
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PASTORATION ABROAD: MISSIONARY VOCATION AND IDENTITY
The various types of migration, and the increasing communities in the diaspora, are leading towards a new perception of the pastoral-missionary reality. This panel aimes at showing that the world is today in a permanent and rapid change, and is also challenging Orthodox theology to a serious debate … read more
BEAUTY IS DIFFICULT
Certainly, the Philocalic ideal is the beautiful and good man. Beauty can save the world because Christ the Good and the Beautiful is the Person. If man has Christ in himself, to an equal extent he also has the good and the beautiful, therefore with Christ he can “impregnate” everything that he … read more