contemplative life | Martyria

Studia Theologica No. I (III) / 2017 ‘One soul in two bodies’. On Christian friendship in Late Antiquity Bogdan Tătaru-Cazaban

Genuine friendship, founded on virtue and communion in faith, is the central theme of this study, which examines how Saints Gregory the Theologian, Basil the Great and Augustine integrated the classical Aristotelian-Platonic ideal of philia into Christian spirituality, ranging from the emblematic experience of the two Cappadocians to John Cassian’s systematic treatment in the Collationes.

Studia Humanitatis No. I (III) / 2017 Jesus Christ …may He deliver me from the eternal fire, for I have sinned in knowing Dinu Săraru

Saint Calinic of Cernica, bishop, monastic founder, and senator in nineteenth-century Romania, is examined here through the lens of a handwritten Prayer-Testament discovered by Archimandrite Diomid and Protosinghel Anastasie Baldovin, in which he confesses the biblical sin of knowledge. The text, dated 1 August 1822, reveals the ascetic's inner struggle between active civic life and monastic humility, illuminating the harmonious duality that led to his canonisation.