Papers by Caius Claudius Cuțaru
Sittinā Maryam of the Muslims Honouring the Virgin Mary in Islam
Editura Universității Aurel Vlaicu, 2016
TEOLOGIA, 2019
In his study The Romanians. A Historical Summary, Mircea Eliade makes reference to the material a... more In his study The Romanians. A Historical Summary, Mircea Eliade makes reference to the material and spiritual culture of the Geto-Dacians and of the ancestors. Taking over the thesis of Vasile Pârvan, the Romanian historian of religions, believes that Zal-moxis and his cult will prepare the Daco-Romans for embracing Christianity. Characterizing the Romanian Christianity, M. Eliade shows that his specifi city is given by his presence on this teritory,by the Dacian-Roman heritage, by the serenity, naturalness and the absence of any excess. The Romanians are considered to be a faithful, human, natural, vigorous and optimistic people who disregard any sickening exaltation of the so-called "mysticism", having as a dominant feature the common sense, kindness, tolerance and hospitality, which they show through the long exercise of suffering during history, these being also considered characteristics of the Romanian spirituality. A fundamental feature of the Romanian Christianity in Eliade's vision is that of "the cosmic Christianity", which he mentions in an early writing: "The fi rst duty of man", he said, "is the fi rst parable of God: his cosmization" (Soliloquies, p. 20). For Eliade cosmization is the harmony of man with everything that is concrete and unique outside of him, the ordination and the matching of the human rhythm with the rhythms of nature, integrating into a hierarchy, cosmicizing all the chaotic experiences. Keywords Mircea Eliade, the Geto-Dacian religion, the spirituality of the Romanian people, the cosmic dimension of the Romanian Christianity TEOLOGIA 2 / 2019 43 STUDIES AND ARTICLES
Desacralization is an ongoing process, a process with a history, a complex process, taking place ... more Desacralization is an ongoing process, a process with a history, a complex process, taking place on many levels and with different consequences, most of them negative in religious terms. Mircea Eliade believes that man and the human society cannot be desecralized absolutely and forever, there may be occultation of the sacred in the profane, but we cannot speak about the total absence of the sacred. The scholar hopes that no religious behavior, no matter how old, can disappear completely. In Eliadeʼs view, human fulfi llment, the creative and comprehensive affi rmation of man can be achieved only within the relationship with the sacred and in a society shaped according to the religious principles. Dominated by an optimistic attitude, M. Eliade expressed his confi dence in the creative power of the human spirit and in the human success that will keep the creative freedom and power at all times and he also says that the desacration of the world will be followed by a period of resacration.
This study aims to present a few of the aspects regarding the honouring of the Virgin Mary in the... more This study aims to present a few of the aspects regarding the honouring of the Virgin Mary in the Christian theology and in the Islamic world, honour which, even if lacking the coordinates of Christianity, still has its importance, especially among Muslim women. This honour was based on the Qur'an, in the honour showed by Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, but it is confi rmed in practice, in the daily lives of the Muslims, in the true wonders that the Mother of God is doing in their lives.
Originar din Siria, Sfântul Ioan Damaschin provenea din celebra familie Mansur din Damasc. Crește... more Originar din Siria, Sfântul Ioan Damaschin provenea din celebra familie Mansur din Damasc. Crește la curtea califatului omeiad, cunoscând bine spe-cificul și obiceiurile lumii musulmane în plină afirmare. Intră în dialog cu teologii musulmani și scrie lucrări în care tratează din punct de vedere doctrinar noua religie, prezentând-o ca pe o sectă creștină. După o perioadă în care activează la curtea omeiadă de la Damasc, în înalta demnitate de prim consilier (πρωτοσύμβουλος), o demnitate asemănătoare cu cea de vizir, se retrage la Mănăstirea Sfântului Sava de lângă Ierusalim, dedicându-se studiului, scrisului și unei aspre viețuiri ascetice. Din această perioadă datează și polemica avută cu iconoclaștii din Imperiul bizantin, Sfântul Părinte fiind printre puținii care apără cu înverșunare cultul sfintelor icoane.
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