About Art Enamoured of Man

The present article focuses on Radu Vancu’s literary work and activity in the editorial team of Transilvania. The last part is dedicated to his most recent book, Elegy For Human. A Critique of the Poetic Modernity From Pound To Cărtărescu.

Keywords: Radu Vancu, poetry, „Transilvania”, human, modernity.

Vancu, Radu, Elegie pentru uman. O critică a modernității poetice de la Pound la Cărtărescu / Elegy For Human. A Critique of the Poetic Modernity From Pound To Cărtărescu, Humanitas, București, 2016.

Vancu, Radu, Poezie și individuație / Poetry And Individuation, Editura Tracus Arte, București, 2014.

Vancu, Radu, Mircea Ivănescu. Poezia discreției absolute / Mircea Ivănescu. The Poetry Of Absolute Discretion, Editura ART, București, 2015.

The Current Debatable Status of four untranslated Short Prose Writings embraced by Kafka’s International Reception  in Romania

Franz Kafka should be regarded as the most iconic and distinct modern writer that created unique pieces of literature. As it is almost generally agreed that he is to be appreciated especially for the creation of his short prose writings, it is the purpose of the following paper to discuss the extent to which this is achieved. The translation of some words and phrases is debated and pondered upon. Thus, his influence on European literature becomes relentless and in a wider international context he remains an unshattered landmark much debated upon on international conferences and literary symposiums. The emphasis is laid upon the continuous struggle that literary exegetes encountered at the meticulous translation of his texts. Hence, the study aims to embrace the furthering of the research field of his texts and to underline, in spite of all the denial and negative comment the imperishable value of his literary heritage.

Keywords: international, originality, translation, universal, valuable

Gray, Richard T. A Franz Kafka Encyclopedia. http:// books.google.ro/books/about/A_Franz_Kafka_ Encyclopedia.html (accessed August 27, 2013).

Kafka, Franz. Opere complete. (Complete Oeuvre) Proza scurtă postumă. (The short posthumous prose) Vol.2.  București: Univers, 1996.

Kafka, Franz. Sämtliche Erzählungen. (Complete Oeuvre) Köln: Anaconda, 2007.

Kafka, Franz. Collected Stories. Trans. Gabriel Josipovici. London: Random House, 1993.

Kafka, Franz.  The Great Wall of   China.  https:// records.viu.ca/~Johnstoi/kafka/greatwallofchina.htm (accessed August 28, 2013).

Petrescu, Liviu. Romanul condiţiei umane (The Novel of the Human Condition). Bucureşti: Minerva, 1979.

Venuti, Lawrence. The Translation Studies Reader. Third Edition. New York: Routledge. 2012.

Latinity: a paradigm shift from global language to enabler of globalization

Communication represents one of the key competencies in a knowledge-based society enabling both empowerment and employment; it is also an effective vehicle for connectivity, cultural innovation and bridging polarities. The triad communication – culture – language should be considered as an essential instrument for overcoming any “cultural shock” in today`s multipolar world. Since communication and human interaction are heavily mediated by culture and facilitated by language, hence an unbiased, complex understanding and awareness of other “cultural grids” is a prerequisite for effective interaction and cooperation. Communication does not equal presuming, rather it requires thorough knowledge of language, intellectual empathy and a comprehensive understanding of culture and its main aim is to connect: individuals, communities, geographical or cultural regions of the world. The effectiveness of intercultural communication relies on the power and impact of discourse as well as the ability to empathize with the others. The main goal of the present study is to provide a definition and reassessment of the concept of “international language” mainly grounded on economic and cultural pillars, revolving around the notion of power. The novelty and originality of the present study reside in highlighting the connection between tradition and modernity, between East and West. Chinese language has the potential of becoming international also due to the Romanization of Chinese characters, by means of a worldwide accepted system – Hanyu Pinyin.

Keywords: communication, culture, language, globalization

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The History Dimension in Dimitrie Cantemir’s Work

It is no secret that Dimitrie Cantemir was interested in sciences, politics, literature, philosophy, music or travelling, being a highly illuminated “spiritus rector” of the medieval era. Our thesis is that history regains its vitality by emerging in a rhetoric of challenge and mystification. For this reason, the truth is searched by all means. His historical works, based on the principle of causality, depict a world seen almost scientifically. Besides the appearance of fiction, we find a solid web of symbols, heraldic, mythology, passion for discovering the unknown, doubled by a powerful narrative talent and erudite style.

Keynotes: medieval chronicles, Age of Enlightment, mystification

Petru Vaida, Dimitrie Cantemir și umanismul [Dimitrie Cantemir and the Age of Enlightment], Minerva, Romania, Bucharest, 1972.

I.Minea, Despre Dimitrie Cantemir. Omul, scriitorul, domnitorul [On Dimitrie Cantemir. The man, the writer, the leader], Romania, Iași, 1926.

G. Pascu, Viaţa și operele lui Dimitrie Cantemir [Life and Works of Dimitrie Cantemir], Romania, Bucharest, 1924.

Ștefan Ciobanu, Dimitrie Cantemir în Rusia [Dimitrie Cantemir in Russia], Acad. Rom., Mem. Sec. Lit., IIIrd series, IV, 1924.

Sextil Pușcariu, Istoria literaturii române, Epoca veche [The history of Romanian Literature], 2nd edition, Romania, Sibiu, 1930.

Ecaterina Ţarălungă, Dimitrie Cantemir. Contribuţii documentare la un portret [Dimitrie Cantemir. Documentary contributions to a portrait], Minerva, Romania, Bucharest, 68-69, 1989.

Dimitrie Cantemir, Istoria Imperiului Ottoman. Crescerea și scaderea lui [The Growth and Decay of the Ottoman Empire], I, Bucharest, Editura Societăţii Academice Române, MDCCCLXXVI.

Dimitrie Cantemir, Hronicul vechimii a romano-moldovlahilor sau Hronica a toată Ţara Românească, care apoi s-au împărţit în Moldova, Muntenia și Ardealul din descălecatul ei de la Traian, împăratul Râmului, Gr. Tocilescu (editor), in Operele Principelui Dimitrie Cantemir [Dimitrie Cantemir’s Works], t. VIII, Bucharest, 1901, p. 13-14

Virgil Cândea, „Introducere” [Introduction to], Dimitrie Cantemir, Creșterile și descreșterile Imperiului otoman [The Growth and Decay of the Ottoman Empire], facs. mss. Lat-124, Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., Bucharest, Ed. Roza Vânturilor, 1999, p. XXVI

The historiography of 9th-11th centuries on cemeteries with pottery from intra-Carpathian area

The article reviews the historiography of archaeological sites from the 9th to 11th centuries, with an emphasis on necropolises featuring ceramic bowl offerings. These sites are those of Alba Iulia (Stația de Salvare, Dealul Șumuleu, Izvorul Împăratului, Str. Brândușei), Blandiana (La Brod), Cluj-Napoca (Str. Zapolya), Gâmbaș (Măguricea), Iernut (Biserică), Orăștie (Dealul Pemilor X2) and Sebeș. The first discoveries were made by Hungarian researchers at the end of the 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th century (Cluj-Napoca – Str. Zapolya, Alba Iulia – Stația de Salvare). The Romanian archaeological research highlights the necropolises of Blandiana, where K. Horedt dug, and Stația de Salvare in Alba Iulia, which was researched in several stages after 1945 (but only the results of the period 1981-1985 were largely published). After 1990, researchers of the newer generation are focusing on this type of necropolis. New dedicated studies were published and new archaeological sites were started (Orăștie, Alba Iulia – Str. Brândușei, Izvorul Împăratului).

Keywords: historiography, necropolises, 9th-11th centuries, intra-Carpathian area, pottery offering

Ciugudean, Horia, Pottery offerings in the early middle age cemetry of Alba Iulia – „Stația de Salvare”, in Funerary offerings and votive depositions in Europe’s 1st millennium AD. Cultural artefacts and local identities, Edited by Călin Cosma, Editura Mega, Cluj-Napoca, 2007, p. 243-262.

Ciugudean, Horia, Dragotă, Aurel, Exhibition catalog Early medieval civilization in Transylvania: funerary rite and ritual (9th-11th century), Alba Iulia, 2002.

Ciugudean, Horia, Pinter, K. Zeno, Rustoiu, T. Gabriel, Habitat-religion-thnicity: 9th-11th century archaeological finds in Transilvania, Exhibition Catalogue, Edited by: Horia Ciugudean, Zeno K. Pinter and Gabriel T. Rustoiu, Editura „Altip”, Alba Iulia, 2006.

Cosma, Călin, Funerary Pottery in Transylvania of the 7th10th Centuries, Editura Mega, Cluj-Napoca, 2011.

Dragotă, Aurel, Aspects of Spiritual Multiculturalism. Funeral Rite and Ritual in Transylvania in Central and South-Eastern Europe, Alba Iulia, 2006.

Dragotă, Aurel, Țiplic, Ioan Marian, Brief history of research necropolises in Transylvania (9th-11th centuries), in Corviniana, VI, 2000, p. 106-127.

Dragotă, Aurel, Rustoiu, T. Gabriel, Drâmbărean, Matei, Deleanu, Valentin, Oța, Silviu, Early medieval necropolis of Alba Iulia – Brândușei Street. Archaeological research in the years 1997-2008, Editura Altip, Alba Iulia, 2009.

Gáll, Erwin, Stage of excavations and publications about the tenth century Transylvanian Basin, in Erasmus, 11, 2000, p. 46-54.

Gáll, Erwin, An analysis of the cemeteries from the 10th and 11th centuries in Brândușei street, Alba Iulia (Gyulafehérvár, Karlsburg). New theories on the migration of people in Transylvania in the 10th-11th centuries, in Between steppe and empire (Edited by Andrei Măgureanu-Erwin Gáll), Bucharest, 2010, p. 297-335.

Madgearu, Alexandru, The Romanians in the Anonymous Gesta Hungarorum, Cluj-Napoca, 2001.

Rusu, M., The autochthonous population and the Hungarians on the territory of Transylvania in the 9th11th centuries, în Relations Between Autochthonous Population and the Migratory Populations, Bucharest, 1975, p. 201-217.

Țiplic, Ioan Marian, Early medieval cemeteries from Transylvania (end of the 9th – first half of the 12th centuries), in Interethnic relations in Transylvania (6th13th centuries), Edited by Z. K. Pinter, I. M. Țiplic, M. E. Țiplic, Bucharest, 2005, p. 132-135.

Țiplic, Ioan Marian, Transylvania in the early middle ages (7th-13th C.), Bibliotheca Septemcastrensis, 2006.

The Position of the Triple Alliance towards Romania in the Danube Question (1880-1883)

The Danube, one of the major rivers of Europe, had a special significance in the life of the peoples of the continent. Connecting Central Europe and the Orient, the Danube was the most important European trade axis. For Romania, the river has always had a special significance.

On the occasion of the peace Congress of Paris (1856), the European Commission of the Danube was founded, an organization established in order to draw up the applicable navigation and police regulations on the entire course of the river. At the same time, however, the plenipotentiaries of the great powers assembled in Berlin (1878), after a series of rather marginal negotiations, left open the question of the regulation of the navigation on the Danube and the Black Sea Straits, although the latter was indeed the key to the whole “Oriental Question”.

Keywords: European Commission of the Danube, Triple Alliance, Romania, navigation and police regulations.

35 de ani de relaţii italo-române, 1879-1914. Documente diplomatice italiene, Editate de Rudolf Dinu, Ion Bulei / 35 years of Italo-Romanian Relations. Italian Diplomatic Documents, Edited by Rudolf Dinu, Ion Bulei, Editura Univers Enciclopedic, București, 2001.

A. N. I. C., Fond Microfilme, Italia, R. 10/2 (1877-1919) ; fond Casa regală / The Central National Historical Archives, Fund Microfilms, Italy, R. 10/2 (1877-1919); Fund Royal House.

B. N. R., Fond Brătianu / National Library of Romania, Fund Brătianu..

M. A. E., Fond Roma, Chestiunea Dunării  ;Arhiva istorică, Convenţii / The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Fund Rome, The Danube Question; Historical Archive, Conventions.

Documente diplomatice române, Seria1, vol. 11:1883 (sub îngrijirea Lukacs Antal, Rudolf Dinu, Alin Ciupală) / Romanian Diplomatic Documents, Series 1, volume 11: 1883 (under supervision of Lukacs Antal, Rudolf Dinu, Alin Ciupală), București, Editura Academiei, 2006, p. XXVIII.

Bălăceanu, Ion, Amintiri politice şi diplomatice (1848 – 1903) / Political and Diplomatic Memoirs, Bucureşti, Editura Cavallioti, 2002.

Cârţână, I.; Seftiuc, I., Dunărea în istoria poporului român / The Danube in the History of the Romanian People,București, Editura Ştiinţifică, 1972.

Gogeanu, Paul, Dunărea în relaţiile internaţionale /The Danube in the international Relations, Bucureşti, Editura Politică, 1970.

Lungu, Corneliu Mihai, Transilvania în raporturile românoaustro-ungare 1876-1886 / Transylvaniain the RomanianAustro-Hungarian Relations1876-1886, Editura Viitorul Românesc, București, 1999.

Maiorescu,Titu, Istoria contemporană a României 18661900 / The Contemporary History of Romania 18661900, Editura Librăriei Socec, București, 1925.

Rădulescu-Zoner, Șerban, Dunărea, Marea Neagră şi Puterile Centrale / The Dabube, the Black Sea and the Central Powers, Editura Dacia, Cluj-Napoca, 1982.

Rutkowski, Ernst R. V., Österreich-Ungarn und Rumänien 1880-1883: die Proklamierung des Königreiches und die Rumänische Irredenta / Austro-Hungary and Romania 1880-1883: The Proclamation of the Kingdom and the Romanian Irredenta, în “SüdostForschungen”, 25, 1996.

Statelova, Elena, La Bulgarie et le problème danubien (18791883)/ Bulgaria and The Danubian Question în “Etudes historique”, 7,VI, Sofia, 1973.

Stere – A Portrait in Fragments

Constantin Stere came to be regarded as one of the most daring and complex political and social thinkers to emerge in the first decades of the 20th century. Indebted to russian populism, his ideas moulded an entire generation and were seminal in reshaping the intellectual landscape. In the same time, Stere is more than meets the eye. A traitor to some, a hero to others, a novelist that brings conjures up the powerful vein of the russian writers. The purpose of this essay is to provide the reader with the templates for a future reappraisal of Stere’s work.

Keywords: populism, ideas, criticism, novel, literature, socialism.

Restorations of the Metropolitan Cathedral of Sibiu during 1958 – 1966

The metropolitan cathedral’s history would be poorer without the whole history of its painting. The history of the cathedral’s painting (in its different techniques and styles) is a separate one and is as interesting as the building of the church. In this short article, there are presented the different steps made during the history of the 20th century in order to preserve the original painting and than to complete the painting of Octavian Smigelschi.

Keywords: restored painting, Octavian Smigelschi, Anastase Demian, Iosif Keber, byzantine painting

„As a Modest Cinderella, Behind the Buildings Wich Sorround It…” – Following the Church of the Greek Company from Sibiu

Although regarding the Metropolitan Cathedral of Sibiu were written constantly a lot of studies, about the little Greek church that lasted until the summer of 1902 we have only very few information. Starting from these we will try to systematize a short history of the church and of the “Greek Company”, who built it at the end of the 18th century. Knowing the past events, the historical conditions, the harshness of those years, we can appreciate better the endeavor and the struggle of the Orthodox people to build a place of worship that was sacrificed after 200 years in order to make place for the present Cathedral. By her unique destiny this little church prepared the construction of this monumental building, endowed with an intrinsic value, meant to express the unity and greatness of a community reborn after centuries of injustice. That church was the place of metropolitan councils and a living testimony to the power of mobilizing national and religious consciousness of the Romanians in Transylvania.

Keywords: Greek Company, Metropolitan Cathedral of Sibiu, Church history, Transylvania, Interconfessional relations, Ecclesiastic art

Dr. Ilarion Pușcariu, Dr. E. Miron Cristea și Matei Voileanu, Biserica catedrală de la Mitropolia ortodoxă română din Sibiu. Istoricul zidirii, 1857-1906 [The Church Cathedral of the Romanian Orthodox Metropolitan of Sibiu. The building’s history, 18571906], Sibiu, 1908

Pr. Prof. Dr. Mircea Păcurariu, Catedrala Mitropolitană din Sibiu 1906-2006 [The Metropolitan Cathedral of Sibiu, 1906-2006], Sibiu, 2006

Olga Cicanci, Companiile grecești din Transilvania și comerţul european în anii 1636-1746 [Greek companies in Transylvania and European trade in the years 16361746], Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România, București 1981

Nicolae Iorga, Scrisori și inscripţii ardele și maramureșene, vol. I: Scrisori din archiva grecilor Sibiului din archiva protopopiei neunite a Făgărașului și din alte locuri [Letters and inscriptions Transylvania and Maramures, vol. I: Letters from Sibiu Greek archive of the Orthodox Deanery archive of Făgăraș and other places], București, 1906

Athanasios E. Karathanis, Elenismul în Transilvania [Hellenism in Transylvania], trad. din fr. Anca Dobre, cuvânt înainte de Acad. Virgil Cândea, Omonia, București, 2003

Keith Hitchins, The Romanians, 1774-1866, Clarendon Press Oxford, 1996

Th. Capidan, Macedoromânii. Etnografie, istorie, limbă [Macedo-romanians. Ethnography, history, language], Fundatia Regală pentru Literatură și Artă, București, 1942.

Mircea Eliade, Sacrul și profanul [The Sacred and The Profane: The Nature of Religion], traducere din franceză de Brândușa Prelipceanu, București, 32005

Florin Tălmăcean, „Relaţiile dintre Biserica Transilvaniei și Patriarhia Ecumenică” [Relations between the Church in Transylvania and the Ecumenical Patriarchate], în ANGVSTA 8, 2004, p. 14

Ioan Ovidiu Abrudan, „Contribuţie la cunoașterea unei valoroase piese de artă liturgică și iconostasul Bisericii din Groapă” [Contribution to the Recognicion of a Precious piece of liturgical art: the iconostasis of the church in the Pit], în Revista Teologică, nr.2/2013, p. 121-139

Andrei Oţetea, „Casa de comerţ Hagi Constantin Pop din Sibiu și rolul ei în dezvoltarea comerţului din Ţara Românească” [The Trade House Hagi Constantin Pop from Sibiu and its role in the development of trade in Wallachia], în Comunicări și articole de istorie, București, 1955, p. 29-44

Pr. Dr. Teodor Bodogae, „Câteva momente mai importante din trecutul Catedralei Mitropolitane din Sibiu” [Some important moments from the past of the Metropolitan Cathedral of Sibiu], în Mitropolia Ardealului, an. XXXII, nr. 5/1987, p. 94-101.

Răzvan Pop, „Un repertoriu al monumentelor dispărute, construite în perioada habsburgică și a Imperiului Austro-Ungar” [An inventory of missing monuments, built during the Habsburg and Austro-Hungarian Empire], în BRVKENTHAL ACTA MVSEI, II.1, 2007, p. 244.

Octavian Smigelschi – monumental painting and national religious art initiator

Visionary and innovative, Smigelschi undertakes to regenarate religious art. This endeavour, în his viewm could not be separated from making use of the knowledge of perspective, anatomy, draping, chromatic, etc, but also of creatively employing Romanian traditional decorative patterns. His closeness to ordinary people, his art, the picturalness of his creation, based on nationalism and piousness, based also on the movement of loght and shade, on the enhancement of the fundamental colour, on the decorative motifs created from the busy fingers of the peasant women, turned Smigelschi into a pathfinder that other great creators followed and into the innovator of a new artistic and religious style – NeoByzantine, so that he will always be a model of diligence and perseverance.

Keywords: art, monumental painting, innovator, religious art, neo-byzantine style, cathedral, national

Valeriu Braniște, Octavian Smigelschi, impresii și amintiri / Octavian Smigelschi, impressions and memories, în „Drapelul”, Lugoj, 28 februarie – 12 martie, nr. 26, 1904.

Alexandru Constatin Chituţă, Octavian Smigeslchi, lumină vie în veșnicie / Octavian Smigeslchi, living light into eternity, Ed. ASTRA Museum, Sibiu, 2012.

Dimitrie Comșa, Album artstic representând 284 broderii și ţesături după originale ţărănești/ Album art and fabric embroidery stick representing 284 originals peasant, Sibiu, 1904.

Ioana Savu-Gruiţă, Tripticul Naţional 1906/ National Triptic 1906, în „Acta Musei Napocensis, Historica II, nr. 41-44, Cluj Napoca, 2007.

Gheorghe Iancu, Valeria Căliman, Valeriu Braniște Corespondenţă/Valeriu Braniște Correspondence, vol III, Ed. Minerva, București, 1989.

Negoiţă Lăptoiu, Un spirit novator: Octavian Smigeslchi/ A inovator spirit: Octavian Smigelschi, în „Incursiuni în plastica transilvăneană”, Cluj-Napoca, 1981.

Iulia Mesea, Pictura românească, secolul al XIX-lea – începutul secolului al XX-lea /Romanian painting, XIX century – beginning of the twentieth century, Pinoteca Brukenthal, Sibiu, 2005.

Dr. Iulia Mesea, Înnoire prin tradiţie / Inovation with tradition, în Alexandru Constantin Chituţă, „Pictorul Octavian Smigeslchi, lumină vie în veșnicie”, Ed. ASTRA Museum,, Universitatea Lucian Blaga, Sibiu, 2012.

Gheorghe Oprescu, Arta ţărănească la români /The Romanian peasant art, București, 1922.

Pr. Prof. Mircea Păcurariu, Catedrala Mitropolitană din Sibiu 1906-2006, Ed. Andreiana, Sibiu, 2006.

Nicolae Sabău, Contribuţii la cunoașterea pictorului Octavian Smigelschi. Pictura bisericii din Șanţ (Rodna Nouă)/Octavian Smigelschi contributions to the knowledge of the painter. The church of Sant (New Rodna), în „File de istorie III”, editat de Muzeul de istorie din Bistriţa, 1974

Răzvan Theodorescu, Octavian Smigelschi – creator de artă naţională / Octavian Smigeslchi – national art creator, în Alexandru Constantin Chituţă, „Octavian Smigelschi, album”, Ed. Muzeului Naţional Brukenthal/Armanis, Sibiu, 2014.

Alexandru Tzigara-Samurcaș, Artiști dispăruţi: O. Smighelski / Artists missing: O. Smighelski, în „Convorbiri literare”, aug., 1914.

Virgil Vătășianu, Pictorul Octavian Smigelschi / Octavian Smigelschi painting, Kraft & Drotleff, Sibiu, 1936.

Gheorghe Vida, Aspecte simboliste în opera lui Octavian Smigelschi/Symbolist aspects in the Octavian Smigelschi art, în Alexandru Constantin Chituţă (coord.), „Octavian Smigelschi album”

The Metropolitan Cathedral in Sibiu, 50 Years Ago

Monument with a symbolic value for the spirituality of the Transylvanian Romanians, the “Holy Trinity” Orthodox cathedral in Sibiu was built in the early years of the twentieth century. Its decoration with wall paintings was done only later, in two stages. First, in 1905, Octavian Smigelschi completed a partial décor, including the painted panels of the iconostasis and the mural painting that covers the dome of the nave and the pendants placed between the arches which support the dome. During the second stage, which took place only later, between 1962 and 1965, after a pause of 53 years, the iconographic assembly was completed.

The outstanding contribution of the painter Octavian Smigelschi has often been highlighted; however, only few things have been written so far about the ones who continued his work. This study brings unpublished information and excerpts from archival documents about the completion, half a century ago, of this monumental work and about the actors involved in the process.

Keywords: The Orthodox Cathedral „Holy Trinity” of Sibiu; Metropolitan Nicolae Colan; Religious art in the decades of communist Romania; Anastase Demian;Iosif Keber.

România, Arhiva Arhiepiscopiei Ortodoxe Române a Sibiului (AAORS), fond “Catedrala”

Catedrala Mitropolitană din Sibiu / The Metropolitan Cathedral in Sibiu, în Mitropolia Ardealului, an X, nr. 11-12, 1965

Cisek, Oscar Walter, Demian, în Gândirea, București, octombrie 1927, p. 267-268

Djentemirov, Mihail, Raluca Iacob, Anastase Demian, Editura Meridiane, București, 1974

Lăptoiu,Negoiţă, Incursiuni în plastica românească / Forays into the Romanian plastic art, vol. II, Editura Dacia, Cluj-Napoca, 1987

Maniu, Adrian, Demian, în Gândirea, Cluj, 15 decembrie 1921

The Cathedral’s Pulpit, the Height of the Spoken Logos. The beginnings of the preaching and their impact on the culture of “The Theological Review” from Sibiu (1907-1925)

The building and consecration of the new metropolitan Cathedral in Sibiu was not the end, but the beginning of the process which continues till nowadays. The preaching from the metropolitan Cathedral is not an accident of cultural genesis and the article proves that there may be met a benefic competition between the priests. Maybe in the dimensions of the cathedral and in the very good quality of the preaching here stays the answer to the very good quality of the preaching here. The author sees everything also from the perspective of the Lutheran and Catholic competition and examples present in the town of Sibiu. For the evolution of the preaching history and technique the author uses one of the most authentic sources on this field, The Theological Review, which starts to be edited in Sibiu by Professor Nicolae Bălan, the future Metropolitan of Transylvania, which began to be published in 1907.

Keywords: metropolitan cathedral, preaching, orthodox teaching, pastoral theology, Theological Review

Dr. Ilarion Pușcariu, Dr. E. Miron Cristea și Mateiu Voileanu, Biserica Catedrală de la Mitropolia Ortodoxă Română în Sibiu. Istoricul zidirii (1857-1906) (The Cathedral Church of the Romanian Orthodox Metropolis in Sibiu. The Building History), Sibiiu, Tiparul Tipografiei Arhidiecezane, 1908, Prefaţa, f.p

Diac. Dr. Gheorghe Comșa, Istoria Predicei la Români (The Preach History in Romania), București, Tipografia Cărţilor Bisericești, 1921, 295 pg.

Miron Erdei, Propovăduirea în Biserica Ortodoxă Română din Transilvania, în prima jumătate a sec. XX (The Mission in the Romanian Orthodox churh of Transylvania în the fist half of the 20th Century), Ed. Cogito Oradea, Oradea, 2001, 384 pg.

Filip G. Albu, Episcopul Grigorie Comșa al Aradului. Opera omiletică (The Bishop Grigorie Comșa of Arad. The Homiletic Writings), Ed. Universităţii Aurel Vlaicu, Arad, 2010, 408 pg.