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Metropolitanate of Moldavia and Bukovina

THEOLOGY AND LIFE
REVIEW OF CHRISTIAN THOUGHT AND SPIRITUALITY
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CONTENTS

RELIGIOUS VALUES IN A MODERN SOCIETY

Rev. Lect. PhD. Ioniţă APOSTOLACHE, The theology of existence at Vladimir

Solovyov, Pavel Florenski and Sergei Bulgakov ................................................. 5

Rev. PhD. Cand. Marius-Emanuel OBREJA, Sickness and healing:

A multidisciplinary perspective ......................................................................... 27

PhD. Cand. Ana-Maria BODAI, Abortion — sacrilege or

birth control method? .......................................................................................... 45

Gra]iela Teodora VLAD, The post-communist Romanian space:

between secularization and the rediscovery of faith .......................................... 62

PhD. Cand. Filaret RUSCAN, The feasts — moments of spiritual reinforcement

in the century of speed ........................................................................................ 70

Rev. PhD. Marin BUGIULESCU, Fasting and prayer — gracious conditions

of the communion of man with God ................................................................... 89

Rev. PhD. Mihai IORDACHE, God's law and freedom

in the thought of Protestant theologian Rudolf Bultmann.............................. 104

PhD. {tefan MUNTEANU, The Psalter of the Septuagint ............................. 116

Asist. drd. Răzvan PER{A, The need for a new Greek critical edition
of the Orthodox Church Canons and the issues of textual criticism .............. 135

Diac, PhD. Nicolae PREDA, Kutia in commemoration of the dead,

or the ceremony of the alms made to commemorate the departed.................. 163

PhD. Cand. Gheorghe DIACONU, The relations of Patriarchate of Antioch

with the Romanian lands and the concession of the Saint Nicolas Princely
Monastery Popăuţi (II) ...................................................................................... 181

Rev. PhD. Cand. Justinian-Remus COJOCAR, 1882 - year of the first issue
of „Candela” - Metropolitan of Bukovina .......................................................... 241
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TRANSLATIONS

Rev. Conf. PhD. Ioannis G. SKIADARESIS, Aesthetic and theological analysis

of the Byzantine icon of the Birth of Jesus Christ
(Rev. PhD. Nicolae N. BURĂŞ) ........................................................................ 251

Archim. Placide DESEILLE, About the Orthodox origins of France

(Prof. PhD. habil. Felicia DUMAS) ................................................................... 267

REVIEWS

Prof. PhD. Mihail DIACONESCU, Lainici. A masterpiece of Romanian

and European art (Rev. Claudiu-Ioan COMAN) ............................................. 279

Donald B. SNOW, English Teaching as Christian Mission:

An Applied Theology (PhD. Ana-Magdalena PETRARU) ............................... 293