Dumitru Stăniloae
and
His Philocalical Vision

author: Maciej Bielawski
title: Dumitru Stăniloae and His Philocalical Vision
pages: 240
published by: StreetLib
year of publication: 2017
ISBN: 9788826402482
euro: 10.39

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Table of contents
 
 
I. Life and work
 
II. Framework
Neo-orthodox theology
Romania
Communism
Bible
Fathers of the Church
Language
 
III. The World in the lightof God
Creation of the world
The motive and the goal of creation
Transcendence of God and His relation to the world
The movement of God towards creation
 
IV. Structures of the World
Finitude
Rationality
Unity
Time
Space
 
V. World, Man, God
Sobornicity
Micro and macrocosm
The world as a place of dialogue
Towards the final dimension
 
VI. The Philokalical Vision
 
Appendix
The Philokalia of Stăniloae

​Father Dumitru Stăniloae is certainly
the greatest Orthodox theologian of today.
(Olivier Clément)
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​DUMITRU STĂNILOAE was born in 1903 in Vlădeni, a village close to Braşov, in Romania. After his studies of literature and theology in Cernăti, Bucharest and Athens, he married Maria Mihu and in 1932 he was ordained priest in Romanien Orthodox Church. He was a prolife writer, gifted teacher and rector of the Theological Academy in Sibiu, yet under the communist regime he had to renounce to his position and years between 1958 and 1963 he spent in prison. The last three decades of his life Stăniloae dedicated to writing, translating and teaching. He died in 1993.
 
THE WORK of Dumitru Stăniloae is immense. He wrote and published over a period of more than 60 years. The bibliography of his writings lists: 90 books, 33 translations, 275 articles, 437 short journalistic articles and many others texts.
 
THIS BOOK, talks about life and work of Dumitru Stăniloae and designes a general framework of the vision of reality elaborated by this thinker in dialogue with Greek Fathers and byzantine mystics from Philokalia, hance I talk about the philokalical vision of Dumitru Staniloae in which he brings back and renews the ancient theme of Cosmic Christ and contributes to a so much sought today Cosmic Christianity.

It is a NEW EDITION of the book The Philokalical Vision of the World in the Theology od Dumitru Stăniloae (1997) which included also a study about Stăniloae'e Philokalia.