Sinodalitatea ca expresie a unită]ii Bisericii 191

Metropolitanate of Moldavia and Bukovina

THEOLOGY AND LIFE
REVIEW OF CHRISTIAN THOUGHT AND SPIRITUALITY
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CONTENTS

CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL

ORTHODOX THEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION

Conference of the International Orthodox Theological Association (IOTA)

— 9-12 January 2019, Ia[i ...................................................................................... 5
His Beatitude DANIEL, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church,
The Unity of the Church is the Gift of God and a Co-responsibility
of the Clergy and the Lay Faithful ...................................................................... 6
His Eminence TEOFAN, Metropolitan of Moldovia and Bukovina, Welcome
Address at the International Theological Conference "Panorthodox Unity and
Synodality", Iaşi, 9-12 January 2019 ................................................................. 14
His Eminence Kallistos WARE, Metropolitan of Diokleia, Synodality and
Primacy in the Orthodox Church ....................................................................... 18
Prof. PhD. Paul GAVRILYUK, International Theological Conference
"Panorthodox Unity and Synodality", Iaşi, 9-12 January 2019 —
Inaugural Address .............................................................................................. 53

ROMANIAN CULTURE AND SPIRITUALITY

PhD. Cand. Alexandru NICOARĂ, Nichifor Crainic — the Tireless Apologist ... 62
Prof. PhD. Drago[ CURELEA, The Military Cleric Ioan Dăncilă,
Almost Forgotten: Contributions to a Well-deserved Bio-bibliographic
Reconstruction ..................................................................................................... 77
Deacon Lecturer PhD. Florin Toader TOMOIOAGĂ,
Saint Gregory of Nyssa's View on the Origin of Human Sexuality
in Orthodox Contemporary Anthropology ......................................................... 97
Rev. Researcher III PhD. Liviu PETCU, The Abundant Joy in Heaven Over
Sinners’ Fervent Repentance. Meditationes e Sanctis Patribus .................... 114
Hieromonk Iosif SPOIALĂ, Mariological Patristic Appointments
in Triodal Hymnographic Texts ....................................................................... 142
Rev. Prof. PhD. Florin PÂRCĂLABU, The Serving as the Essential Funcion
of the Church ..................................................................................................... 159
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FATHERS OF THE CHURCH (TRANSLATIONS)

Saint ISIDORE of Seville, Sententiarum Libri Tres. Three Books of Sentences

(Second Book) (PhD. Cand. Bogdan-Vlădu] BRÎNZĂ) .................................... 170

REVIEWS

Nicholas Thomas Wright, The Day of the Revolution Began — Reconsidering the
Meaning of Jesus`s Crucifixion, translated by deacon Ioan I. Ică jr., Deisis
Publishing House, Sibiu, 2018 (Florin CRÎ{MĂREANU) .............................. 182
The patriarch and the martyr — John the Merciful and Anastasie the Persian,
Hagiographic files translated and commented by deacon Ioan I. Ică jr., Deisis
Publishing House, Sibiu, 2018 (Florin CRÎ{MĂREANU) .............................. 186