In the Romanian Orthodox Bible there are at the end of the Old Testament more than 300 hundred pa... more In the Romanian Orthodox Bible there are at the end of the Old Testament more than 300 hundred pages of texts not present in King James Bible. Some of these texts are really important, as would b e The Wisdom of Sirach.
A study regarding the contents and the main characteristics of the Romanian Philokalia and of the... more A study regarding the contents and the main characteristics of the Romanian Philokalia and of the English Philokalia.
“So, the inward man is reckoned as the imageless state of the mind. In that indefinite, by missin... more “So, the inward man is reckoned as the imageless state of the mind. In that indefinite, by missing any narrowing through the successive images of the things and of the imaginings, there can dwell Christ Who by the fact that He is God He matches that indefinite place, and by the fact that He is man He is felt close to us and in connection with us. The mind becomes focused on Him and only on Him. He is being explained what Saint Mark the Hermit says in the Word about Baptism (The Romanian Philokalia, volume I), where Christ is seen, in His quality as Hierarch, as receiving all our thoughts on the altar of our hearts, from their first occurrence within mind. But Saint Isaac completes the idea, by specifying that Christ as Hierarch, He fill up everything within us, and He spreads around His good fragrance in the indefinite precipice into the depths of the soul, filling us up with good fragrance. The bottomless precipice of the soul it is so kindred to the bottomless precipice of the godhead that one cannot see a border between them two. You only feel that you heart is not unveiled as precipice, except for there is another precipice more capable of maintaining itself as such, and you feel that your heart discovered or it actualized also the precipice of your heart. Of you feel the difference only in that that your precipice prays to the precipice of Him Who fills your precipice up as another abyss. And then you feel that not only Christ spreads around the good fragrance of the incense, but yourself do that to, by bringing on yourself as sacrifice to Christ. By living on yourself as precipice and by living on Christ as precipice within yourself, you will dare in your prayer. This is for you are no longer separated from Christ by something, but you feel Christ sunk within you and you feel yourself as sunk into Him, but without Him to be confounded to you." Priest Professor PhD Academician Dumitru, The Romanian Philokalia, volume X, E.I.B.M.O., Bucharest,
Father Professor PhD Academician Dumitru Stăniloae 0 who we call as Saint Dumitru the Restorer of... more Father Professor PhD Academician Dumitru Stăniloae 0 who we call as Saint Dumitru the Restorer of the Christian theology – he grouped in this nineth volume of The Romanian Philokalia (which he translated from the original Greek texts and which is the largest collection of Philokalian texts, larger that the Greek, English, or Russian Philokalia) The Ladder authored by Saint John Climacus and texts recorded in writing according to oral speeches uttered by Abba Dorotheos. We recommend the reader to take heed as the extraordinary detailed and abundant footnotes both quoted by Saint Dumitru from other Holy Fathers, or written by himself – the last ones being the most numerous. We also kindly ask the reader, if anything seems wrong, please communicate that to us at goleam@yahoo.com or by messaging us here on www.academia.edu.
We haven’t had the necessary time for rendering the harvest of the last five years of lexicologic... more We haven’t had the necessary time for rendering the harvest of the last five years of lexicological work, namely: the terms, the expressions (collocations) which we have been identifying during the works of translation, especially undertaken on Father Dumitru Stăniloae’s works, in an Office/Word format. But we hope this won't affect too much the use of the present Dictionary of Religious Terms in the translation work. In addition to the previous editions the user can find here a special worksheet named Translation Difficulties, where we've gathered together the most difficult linguistic places which we've came across to, and where we’ve given some translation solutions, a special worksheet with terms and expression collected from the work of His Beatitude Daniel, the Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church: Theology and Spirituality, and a worksheet with biblical abbreviations. We consider the present dictionary, again, as a tool oriented towards practical work of translation, and by no means an academic work. The user will notice that we’ve used different colors, especially in order to highlight that the differently colored terms are new term in comparison t0o the previous editions of the dictionary. Using the red color for some terms it is an indication that in the case of those terms we haven’t identified a satisfactory equivalence. Unlike the previous editions, the new terms added to the present one, they have mentioned the source which they have been taken from, in order to offer the user of the dictionary the possibility of seeing where those terms have been collected from, and, why not, in order to use the original text and the context which those terms appear in, for rendering new and more adequate translation solutions – a fact that we strongly encourage! – like also we encourage the eventual user to communicate us, his / her observations, at goleam@yahoo.com, and to improve the present dictionary as much as possible! God bless you!
Content
Writings by:
Nicephorus from Loneliness, Theoleptos of Philadelphia, Saint Gr... more Content
Writings by:
Nicephorus from Loneliness, Theoleptos of Philadelphia, Saint Gregory the Sinaite, Saint Gregory Palamas
About prayer, Watchfulness, and Guarding the Heart, of Nicephorus from Loneliness 3
Nicephorus from Loneliness. Short Biographical Note 4
Word about Prayer. Of Nicephorus from Loneliness 8
From the Life of Our Pious Father Anthony 10
From the Life of Saint Theodosius, the Cenobiarch (The Exarch of the Coenobitic Communities)
11
From the Life of Saint Arsenius 12
From the Life of Saint Paul from Latro 12
From the Life of Saint Sava 13
From the Life of Saint Agathon 14
From Abba Mark (towards Nicholas) 14
From Saint John Climacus 15
From Abba Isaiah 16
From Makarios the Great 17
From Diadochus 17
From Isaac the Syrian 17
From the Carpathian 18
From Simeon the New Theologian 18
Of Theoleptos Metropolitan of Philadelphia.
Word about the Toils of the Monastic Life.
And
Word about That Word Hidden into Christ
28
Metropolitan Theoleptos of Philadelphia
His Life and His Writings
28
The Word of Theoleptos, Metropolitan of Philadelphia, about the Toils of the Monastic Life
36
Of the Same Theoleptos of Philadelphia, Word about That Word Hidden into Christ
56
Of the One amongst the Saitns, our Father Gregory of Sinai
Very Useful Heads in Acrostic
And other Writings
62
Saint Gregory the Sinaite. His life 63
The Writings of Gregory Sinaite 74
Of the One Amongst Saints, Our Father Gregory Sinaite
Very Useful Heads in Acrostic, of which Acrostic is this: Diverse Words about Commandments, Dogmas, Menaces and Promises, and even about Thoughts, Passions, and Virtues; and then about Appeasement and Prayer.
80
Other Heads of the same One 140
About the Passionate Transformation 141
About the Good Transformation 142
Of the Same One
Detailed teaching about appeasement and prayer, about the signs of the grace and of the deceit; and then, about the difference between warmth and work; and that without an adviser there comes easily the delusion. (Head in The Greek Philokalia: 10; here we have 14 heads).
143
About the Way One Can Find the Word 145
Of Saint Gregory Palamas
Word for Them Who Appease Themselves Piously
154
The Third Word of the Last Ones
About the Holy Light
155
The Second Word from the Last Ones
About Prayer
180
The Third Word from the Last Ones
About the Holy Light
215
Of Saint Gregory Palamas
Out of the Word of Saint John Chrysostom at the First Martyr Stephen
309
Of Saint Gregory Palamas
About the Godlike and Deifying Impartation; or about the Godlike and Above-Nature Simplicity
311
The Hagiorite Tome 344
Of Saint Greogry Palamas, the Archbishop of Thessaloniki
150 Heads about the Natural Knowledge, about the Knowledge about God, about the Moral Life, and about Doing 355
This is the sixth volume of The Romanian Philokalia, out of 12 volumes.
It contains texts of Sai... more This is the sixth volume of The Romanian Philokalia, out of 12 volumes. It contains texts of Saitn Simeon the New Theologian, of Simeon the Pious, and of Nicetas Stethatos.
Wholistic Translation Theory (WTTh) is a totally new approach on translation studies, aiming to c... more Wholistic Translation Theory (WTTh) is a totally new approach on translation studies, aiming to cast a meta-perspective on the domain. WTTh is a holarchy based on reckoning the Translation Theories (TThs) as holons. WTTh grants the same importance to all TThs for it reckons every TTh as a part of the Whole that is the Translation Process (TP), but there is no such thing as a TTh equal to the Whole of the TP. WTTh aims to constitute the basis on which to be built up the TThs-Matrix (Multitude), and in order that to be done it envisages the constitution of a International Center for Wholism in Translation, with the participation of a consortium of universities.
Prologue
As far as we can remember, we have been attracted to spirituality by and large, and star... more Prologue As far as we can remember, we have been attracted to spirituality by and large, and starting with an early age we have been readding Christian Orthodox books, being especially passionate about such publications as: Paterikon, The Romanian Philokalia etc. and not only. When reading The Romanian Philokalia, in twelve volumes, put translated from the Greek language and put together by Priest Professor PhD Academician Dumitru Stăniloae, we discovered a hugely profound theologian, one often explaining, or even contradicting / correcting Holy Father’s sayings. Then we came across with that hugely important book of his, one called Jesus Christ or the Man’s Restoration, one that can be considered as exhaustive in what regards Christendom and Christology. While reading it, a strange idea emerged like from nowhere: let’s translate it in English language… At that time, we only very poorly knew English… But, in the same time, we felt that unavoidable urge driving us to do that translation… Suddenly, without an obvious need for our career, we enlisted and attended for two years, the twelve modules destined to learn English, at the International Language House, a very intense and deep experience. We started translating Jesus Christ or the Man’s Restoration ten years ago, in the year 2012, and ever since, we have translated also six volumes of The Romanian Philokalia (I-V and VIII) and nine more other author volumes (six individual titles) belonging to Priest Professor PhD Academician Dumitru Stăniloae, whom we are going to call, from now on: Saint Dumitru the Restorer of the Christian Theology. There was such a stiff resistance that we have been experiencing against our endeavor! The reactions we endured were: rejection, mockery, deeming our initiative useless and unnecessary, and we have received menacing letters from the most important institution related to our endeavor, warning us that, in the case that we continued translating Saint Dumitru’s works, they would sue us, in civil and even in penal courts… But they were only contributing to the plan God had with us! And there was a person, a living Saint! whom we owe the only support we have been receiving from people: our spiritual guide / our confessor father: Archimandrite Nestor Iovan from the Holy Monastery of Hodoș-Bodrog. We presented him the whole situation and we asked him what have we to do. He advised us to graduate a master in theology, and then a PhD. If we had those degrees, that would scatter the doubts regarding our capacity of understanding what we were translating, and it would have also certified our capacity of translating Saint Dumitru’s theological writings in the English language. We obeyed father confessor’s advices like they were holy commandments given us by God Himself at confession, and started working them in parallel to our incessant translation activity. After graduating the master in theology, we asked for a dispensation in order to enlist for sitting the admission exam in order to attend a doctoral school in theology. We did that because, during the second year of our master studies, for reasons that escapes our rational understanding, the institution responsible for managing the theological studies, it introduced an internal decree destined to forbit the master graduates of entering the theological doctoral schools if they had not firstly graduated a theology faculty, regardless they graduated a master in theology . They answered my request by communicating me, cold blooded, the number of the decree forbidding my PhD attempt. But that also was the will of God, and, with a burdened heart – because I couldn’t understand such a fierce opposition to such a spiritual initiative!... – I asked again the blessing of our spiritual adviser / father confessor, and he agreed our thought of trying to enlist and to graduate a PhD in translations studies. God helped us with our PhD too, and so, we have obtained a PhD in translations studies, at West University of Timisoara, in the year 2021, with the thesis: Translating Christian Religious Texts between the English Language and the Romanian Language. Linguistic and Dogmatic Aspects. Meanwhile we haven’t ceased translating the writings of, as we have been advised by Archimandrite Nestor Iovan, and we have accumulated a number of sixteen translated works . Slowly but unavoidably, the huge theological personality belonging to Saint Dumitru has been becoming ever clearer to us. He was a profound Orthodox theologian, but one that succeeded in identifying and walking the middle path / the balanced path that means the true Christian Orthodoxy. In a way, we think that we can say, that Saint Dumitru has restored the Christian theology by and large, by getting it out of the imagology / paradigms of generated by the ethos of the middle age society, by reconnecting it to the modern society and, most important, by providing the Christians with an open theological system, one capable of adapting to the requirements of the present believers. But we are going to say more on this, in the Introduction. After us realizing the huge importance Saint Dumitru has, not only for Christian Orthodoxy, but for Christendom by and large, this idea of writing a quasi-PhD-thesis on his theological system it occurred to us, and, after we obtained the necessary spiritual blessing, we proceeded to research on scientifical basis, as objective as we have been able to, of what was similar and what was different in saint Dumitru’s theology, comparatively to Holy Fathers’ theology. It turned out that our intuitions regarding Saint Dumitru’s huge theological stature not only have been confirmed, but they have been even hugely exceeded. We kindly urge the reader to freely distribute the present work, on any available format, to whomsoever would be interested in.
No. Theme Pg. 1. Dedications 1 2. Acknowledgements 2 3. Abbreviations 3 4. Reading Tips / Technical Provisions 4 5. Prologue 9 6. Introduction 13 7. Research Hypotheses Confirmation Matrix 27 8. Conclusions 35 9. Further Developments 57 10. Shortcomings 59 11. Corpus Study 64 12. Acedia 65 13. Activity 68 14. Addiction-Passion 74 15. Adoption 126 16. Affects (According-to-Nature-Affects, Bodily Needs) 131 17. Alms 139 18. Angels 142 19. Apostles 154 20. Art 161 21. Ascesis 163 22. Asceticism and Mysticism 173 23. Birth Giver of God / Birth Giver of the Lord / Mother of God / Virgin Mary 178 24. Body 189 25. Charismas 217 26. Christ Jesus 225 27. Christian Dogmas 247 28. Church 257 29. Communication of the Two Natures (Godlike and Human) in Christ’s Person 272 30. Communion Amongst People, and between People and God 279 31. Creation / World / Universe / Cosmos 296 32. Cross / Crucifixion 314 33. Death 320 34. Deeds / Doing 331 35. Deification 344 36. Dialogue with God 354 37. Dispassion / Absence / Removal of Passions / Apatheia 361 38. Dwelling of God within the Human Being / Dwelling of the Human Being within / in Christ 375 39. Egotism / Selfishness 382 40. Embodiment 384 41. En-Humanity / En-Hypostatization 395 42. Epektasis 408 43. Eschatology 410 44. Evil 424 45. Evolution / Progress 444 46. Experiencing / Knowing God 458 47. Faith 466 48. Family / Marriage 476 49. Fasting 483 50. Fear 487 51. Fellow Human / Neighbor 493 52. Forgiveness 497 53. Forsaking 500 54. Freedom / Liberty 502 55. Gentleness and Humbleness 511 56. Gnosis / Gnostic 520 57. God 526 58. Good 543 59. Grace of God 555 60. Guarding the Mind 573 61. Heart 579 62. Heavens / Paradise 585 63. Hell 588 64. Heresy 599 65. Holiness 602 66. Holy Ghost 610 67. Holy Mysteries 628 68. Holy Relics 634 69. Holy Scripture 638 70. Holy Tradition 646 71. Holy Trinity 654 72. Hope 662 73. Human Being / Mankind / Humanity 668 74. Icon / Image of God 676 75. Idol 686 76. Image and Likeness of God 690 77. Immortality 697 78. Judgment 707 79. Justice and Righteousness 716 80. Kenosis 724 81. Kingdom of God / Kingdom of Heavens 735 82. Knowledge / Understanding / Wisdom / Sapience 744 83. Law 761 84. Laymen 770 85. Life 774 86. Logos 783 87. Love 788 88. Luminous Light 802 89. Mercy 810 90. Mind / Rationality 813 91. Monasticism 830 92. Motion / Movement (we have left unchecked the cells because of not being able to make any comments, due to the very high philosophical / theological manner that the theme was approached in)
864 93. Nothingness / Nothing 881 94. Numerology 883 95. Obedience 987 96. Orthodox Apologetics 901 97. Paradise 1030 98. Paradox 1033 99. Personalism 1043 100. Pleasure / Pain 1053 101. Power / Strength 1066 1066 102. Prayer to Jesus / Prayer of the Mind / Prayer of the Heart / Prayer of a Sole Thought 1071 103. Prayer 1088 104. Preaching 1103 105. Predestination / Destiny 1105 106. Priesthood 1112 107. Prophets / Prophecies 1122 108. Providence 1140 109. Repentance 1148 110. Responsibility 1168 111. Resting 1184 112. Restoration 1186 113. Resurrection 1190 114. Revelation 1205 115. Sacrifice 1219 116. Saint 1231 117. Salvation 1241 118. Science 1265 119. Seeing on God 1273 120. Senses 1288 121. Sex 1297 122. Sin 1315 123. Soul 1326 124. Space / Distance 1337 125. Spirituality / Spiritualness / Spiritualization 1344 126. Sufferance / Suffering 1354 127. Symbol 1365 128. Tears / Crying 1375 129. Temptation / Trial / Test / Trouble 1381 130. Tent 1393 131. Thoughts 1392 132. Time / History / Eternity / Ages / Eon / Era 1414 133. Transcendence 1430 134. Transparency to God 1446 135. Tropes 1458 136. Unapproachable Light / Uncreated Divine Energies 1492 137. Union with God / with Fellow Humans 1513 138. Virtue 1527 139. Vision 1536 140. Weakness 1546 141. Will 1552 142. Woman 1557 143. Wonders 1566 144. Word of God 1577 145. Work 1602 146. Worry 1619 147. Worshipping 1631 148. Bibliography 1646 149. Appendix I – Saint Dumitru the Restorer’s Biography and Bibliography 1649
150. Appendix II – Theological Florilegium on Theological Themes 1663 151. Acedia 1664 152. Activity 1668 153. Addiction / Passions 1692 154. Adoption 1913 155. Affects (According-to-Nature-Affects, Bodily Needs) 1956 156. Alms / Charity 1977 157. Angels 1988 158. Apostles 2052 159. Art 2091 160. Ascesis 2095 161. Asceticism and Mysticism 2158 162. Birth Giver of God / Birth Giver of the Lord / Mother of God / Virgin Mary 2186 163. Body 2224 164. Charismas / Gifts from the Holy Ghost 2351 165. Christ Jesus 2391 166. Christian Dogmas 2560 167. Church 2597 168. Communication of the Two Natures (Godlike and Human) in Christ’s Person 2658 169. Communion Amongst People, and between People and God 2682 170. Creation / World / Universe / Cosmos 2777 171. Cross / Crucifixion 3007 172. Death 3037 173. Deeds / Doing 3127 174. Deification / Sanctification 3168 175. Dialogue with God 3221 176. Dispassion / Absence / Removal of Passions / Apatheia 3251 177. Dwelling of God within the Human Being / Dwelling of the Human Being within / in Christ 3315 178. Egotism / Selfishness 3344 179. Embodiment 3346 180. En-Humanity / En-Hypostatization 3401 181. Epektasis 3416 182. Eschatology 3418 183. Evil 3455 184. Evolution / Progress 3544 185. Experiencing / Knowing God 3560 186. Faith 3573 187. Family / Marriage / Having Children 3647 188. Fasting 3666 189. Fear 3687 190. Fellow Human / Neighbor 3737 191. Forgiveness 3744 192. Forsaking by God 3751 193. Freedom / Liberty 3755 194. Gentleness and Humbleness 3792 195. Gnosis / Gnostic 3838 196. God 3849 197. Good 3952 198. Grace of God 3984 199. Guarding the Mind 4049 200. Heart 4077 201. Heavens / Paradise 4125 202. Hell 4133 203. Heresy 4167 204. Holiness 4171 205. Holy Ghost 4190 206. Holy Mysteries 4266 207. Holy Relics 4458 208. Holy Scripture 4461 209. Holy Tradition 4496 210. Holy Trinity 4511 211. Hope 4578 212. Human Being / Mankind / Humanity 4599 213. Icon / Image of God 4685 214. Idol 4780 215. Image and Likeness of God 4794 216. Immortality 4807 217. Judgment 4822 218. Justice and Righteousness 4870 219. Kenosis 4890 220. Kingdom of God / Kingdom of Heavens 4916 221. Knowledge / Understanding / Wisdom / Sapience 4933 222. Law 5163 223. Laymen 5195 224. Life 5208 225. Logos 5245 226. Love 5251 227. Luminous Light 5396 228. Mercy 5404 229. Mind / Rationality 5415 230. Monasticism 5668 231. Motion / Movement (we have left unchecked the cells because of not being able to make any comments, due to the very high philosophical / theological manner that the theme was approached in)
5759 232. Nothingness / Nothing 5782 233. Numerology 5784 234. Obedience / Disobedience 5800 235. Orthodox Apologetics 5827 236. Paradise / Heavens 5976 237. Paradox 5982 238. Personalism 5992 239. Pleasure / Pain 6132 240. Power / Strength 6200 241. Prayer to Jesus / Prayer of the Mind / Prayer of the Heart / Prayer of a Sole Thought 6244 242. Prayer 6300 243. Preaching 6471 244. Predestination / Destiny 6479 245. Priesthood 6491 246. Prophets / Prophecies 6544 247. Providence 6578 248. Repentance 6599 249. Responsibility 6645 250. Resting 6664 251. Restoration 6679 252. Resurrection 6683 253. Revelation 6732 254. Sacrifice 6748 255. Saint 6765 256. Salvation 6783 257. Science 6835 258. Seeing on God 6856 259. Senses (Organs of Bodily Sensing) 6922 260. Sex 6952 261. Sin 6970 262. Soul 7048 263. Space / Distance 7135 264. Spirituality / Spiritualness / Spiritualization 7147 265. Sufferance / Suffering 7172 266. Symbol 7208 267. Tears / Crying 7224 268. Temptation / Trial / Test / Trouble 7246 269. Tent 7290 270. Thoughts 7309 271. Time / History / Eternity / Ages / Eon / Era 7414 272. Transcendence 7508 273. Transparency to God 7528 274. Tropes 7563 275. Unapproachable Light / Uncreated Divine Energies 7604 276. Union with God / with Fellow Humans 7695 277. Virtue 7739 278. Vision 7808 279. Weakness 7816 280. Will 7831 281. Woman 7838 282. Wonders 7866 283. Word of God 7879 284. Work 7915 285. Worry / Worries / Worried 7962 286. Worshipping / Worship / Worshipped 7995
Traducerea textelor religioase crestine este un domeniu de studiu foarte complex, care pune in fa... more Traducerea textelor religioase crestine este un domeniu de studiu foarte complex, care pune in fata traducatorului dificultati generate de aspecte diverse. A alege intre echivalenta formala si echivalenta functionala, a recunoaste expresiile idiomatice, colocatiile, elementele de tehnolect teologic, toate acestea cad in sarcina traducatorului. Iar traducerea este in mod fundamental determinata doctrinar.
This volume too, it belongs to the twelve volumes translated from Greek language and put together... more This volume too, it belongs to the twelve volumes translated from Greek language and put together by Saint Father Dumitru Stăniloae - the Restorer of the Christian Theology. He was translating the texts grouped in The Romanian Philokalia for 45 years, with a interruption caused by his jailing, innocent, as political and religious prisoner, in the communist prisons.
Final issue of the Dictionary of the Religious Terms.
Starting from today, we reckon as finish... more Final issue of the Dictionary of the Religious Terms.
Starting from today, we reckon as finished the elaboration of the present dictionary, because we have been no longer encountering new terms, and the complicated expressions have been occurring very rarely. We reckon that, the translators have, in the present dictionary, the sufficient means for accomplishing satisfactory translations. The elaboration of the present dictionary has been taking place between the years: 2012-2023 (on a daily basis, with only some short and totally justified recesses, while working on the theses for our two PhDs, and while being sick).
Father Professor Academician Dumitru Staniloae succeded in creating his own theological system, t... more Father Professor Academician Dumitru Staniloae succeded in creating his own theological system, that could be call as philosophical-theology, or as theological-philosophy, whilst still remaining close and connected to the Orthodoxy and to the Holy Fathers of the Church. In the main time, he restored the Christian theology, by bringing it up to date, by removing the outdated influences of the thinking from the slavery and medieval periods. He developed a totally new theology about hell; he restored the importance of the world and of the human body; he spoke about the blessing of the marriage etc. His writing are a starting point for bringing Christendom up to date, now that we've entered the spatial era, when the world means, actually, the whole universe, and the Gospel must be preached to the most far places of the cosmos.
A theological philosophy, or a philosophical theology, a masterpiece of Father Professor Stanilo... more A theological philosophy, or a philosophical theology, a masterpiece of Father Professor Staniloae's theological thinking. And a restoring one too, for He bring back on tracks the so derailed and full of excesses Christian theology.
This work of Father Professor Dumitru Staniloae is the most difficult to read for it is the highe... more This work of Father Professor Dumitru Staniloae is the most difficult to read for it is the highest masterpiece of his theology! It is, actually, about theological philosophy. It is the coronation of the whole his theological life, namely it is the result of what he impropriated from Christendom, of what he lived and felt in the real circumstances of his life, of what he corelated in a coherent system. A characteristic is that he used only a few quotes, and those are taken mainly from the Gospels. So, this book hasn't the usual profile of a theological book: as made from other books. It is almost entirely original!
This maturity work of Father Professor Dumitru Stăniloae synthesizes all his theology which he pr... more This maturity work of Father Professor Dumitru Stăniloae synthesizes all his theology which he presented from the perspective that God is luminous light and he makes us, by deifying us, also luminous lights.
In the Romanian Orthodox Bible there are at the end of the Old Testament more than 300 hundred pa... more In the Romanian Orthodox Bible there are at the end of the Old Testament more than 300 hundred pages of texts not present in King James Bible. Some of these texts are really important, as would b e The Wisdom of Sirach.
A study regarding the contents and the main characteristics of the Romanian Philokalia and of the... more A study regarding the contents and the main characteristics of the Romanian Philokalia and of the English Philokalia.
“So, the inward man is reckoned as the imageless state of the mind. In that indefinite, by missin... more “So, the inward man is reckoned as the imageless state of the mind. In that indefinite, by missing any narrowing through the successive images of the things and of the imaginings, there can dwell Christ Who by the fact that He is God He matches that indefinite place, and by the fact that He is man He is felt close to us and in connection with us. The mind becomes focused on Him and only on Him. He is being explained what Saint Mark the Hermit says in the Word about Baptism (The Romanian Philokalia, volume I), where Christ is seen, in His quality as Hierarch, as receiving all our thoughts on the altar of our hearts, from their first occurrence within mind. But Saint Isaac completes the idea, by specifying that Christ as Hierarch, He fill up everything within us, and He spreads around His good fragrance in the indefinite precipice into the depths of the soul, filling us up with good fragrance. The bottomless precipice of the soul it is so kindred to the bottomless precipice of the godhead that one cannot see a border between them two. You only feel that you heart is not unveiled as precipice, except for there is another precipice more capable of maintaining itself as such, and you feel that your heart discovered or it actualized also the precipice of your heart. Of you feel the difference only in that that your precipice prays to the precipice of Him Who fills your precipice up as another abyss. And then you feel that not only Christ spreads around the good fragrance of the incense, but yourself do that to, by bringing on yourself as sacrifice to Christ. By living on yourself as precipice and by living on Christ as precipice within yourself, you will dare in your prayer. This is for you are no longer separated from Christ by something, but you feel Christ sunk within you and you feel yourself as sunk into Him, but without Him to be confounded to you." Priest Professor PhD Academician Dumitru, The Romanian Philokalia, volume X, E.I.B.M.O., Bucharest,
Father Professor PhD Academician Dumitru Stăniloae 0 who we call as Saint Dumitru the Restorer of... more Father Professor PhD Academician Dumitru Stăniloae 0 who we call as Saint Dumitru the Restorer of the Christian theology – he grouped in this nineth volume of The Romanian Philokalia (which he translated from the original Greek texts and which is the largest collection of Philokalian texts, larger that the Greek, English, or Russian Philokalia) The Ladder authored by Saint John Climacus and texts recorded in writing according to oral speeches uttered by Abba Dorotheos. We recommend the reader to take heed as the extraordinary detailed and abundant footnotes both quoted by Saint Dumitru from other Holy Fathers, or written by himself – the last ones being the most numerous. We also kindly ask the reader, if anything seems wrong, please communicate that to us at goleam@yahoo.com or by messaging us here on www.academia.edu.
We haven’t had the necessary time for rendering the harvest of the last five years of lexicologic... more We haven’t had the necessary time for rendering the harvest of the last five years of lexicological work, namely: the terms, the expressions (collocations) which we have been identifying during the works of translation, especially undertaken on Father Dumitru Stăniloae’s works, in an Office/Word format. But we hope this won't affect too much the use of the present Dictionary of Religious Terms in the translation work. In addition to the previous editions the user can find here a special worksheet named Translation Difficulties, where we've gathered together the most difficult linguistic places which we've came across to, and where we’ve given some translation solutions, a special worksheet with terms and expression collected from the work of His Beatitude Daniel, the Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church: Theology and Spirituality, and a worksheet with biblical abbreviations. We consider the present dictionary, again, as a tool oriented towards practical work of translation, and by no means an academic work. The user will notice that we’ve used different colors, especially in order to highlight that the differently colored terms are new term in comparison t0o the previous editions of the dictionary. Using the red color for some terms it is an indication that in the case of those terms we haven’t identified a satisfactory equivalence. Unlike the previous editions, the new terms added to the present one, they have mentioned the source which they have been taken from, in order to offer the user of the dictionary the possibility of seeing where those terms have been collected from, and, why not, in order to use the original text and the context which those terms appear in, for rendering new and more adequate translation solutions – a fact that we strongly encourage! – like also we encourage the eventual user to communicate us, his / her observations, at goleam@yahoo.com, and to improve the present dictionary as much as possible! God bless you!
Content
Writings by:
Nicephorus from Loneliness, Theoleptos of Philadelphia, Saint Gr... more Content
Writings by:
Nicephorus from Loneliness, Theoleptos of Philadelphia, Saint Gregory the Sinaite, Saint Gregory Palamas
About prayer, Watchfulness, and Guarding the Heart, of Nicephorus from Loneliness 3
Nicephorus from Loneliness. Short Biographical Note 4
Word about Prayer. Of Nicephorus from Loneliness 8
From the Life of Our Pious Father Anthony 10
From the Life of Saint Theodosius, the Cenobiarch (The Exarch of the Coenobitic Communities)
11
From the Life of Saint Arsenius 12
From the Life of Saint Paul from Latro 12
From the Life of Saint Sava 13
From the Life of Saint Agathon 14
From Abba Mark (towards Nicholas) 14
From Saint John Climacus 15
From Abba Isaiah 16
From Makarios the Great 17
From Diadochus 17
From Isaac the Syrian 17
From the Carpathian 18
From Simeon the New Theologian 18
Of Theoleptos Metropolitan of Philadelphia.
Word about the Toils of the Monastic Life.
And
Word about That Word Hidden into Christ
28
Metropolitan Theoleptos of Philadelphia
His Life and His Writings
28
The Word of Theoleptos, Metropolitan of Philadelphia, about the Toils of the Monastic Life
36
Of the Same Theoleptos of Philadelphia, Word about That Word Hidden into Christ
56
Of the One amongst the Saitns, our Father Gregory of Sinai
Very Useful Heads in Acrostic
And other Writings
62
Saint Gregory the Sinaite. His life 63
The Writings of Gregory Sinaite 74
Of the One Amongst Saints, Our Father Gregory Sinaite
Very Useful Heads in Acrostic, of which Acrostic is this: Diverse Words about Commandments, Dogmas, Menaces and Promises, and even about Thoughts, Passions, and Virtues; and then about Appeasement and Prayer.
80
Other Heads of the same One 140
About the Passionate Transformation 141
About the Good Transformation 142
Of the Same One
Detailed teaching about appeasement and prayer, about the signs of the grace and of the deceit; and then, about the difference between warmth and work; and that without an adviser there comes easily the delusion. (Head in The Greek Philokalia: 10; here we have 14 heads).
143
About the Way One Can Find the Word 145
Of Saint Gregory Palamas
Word for Them Who Appease Themselves Piously
154
The Third Word of the Last Ones
About the Holy Light
155
The Second Word from the Last Ones
About Prayer
180
The Third Word from the Last Ones
About the Holy Light
215
Of Saint Gregory Palamas
Out of the Word of Saint John Chrysostom at the First Martyr Stephen
309
Of Saint Gregory Palamas
About the Godlike and Deifying Impartation; or about the Godlike and Above-Nature Simplicity
311
The Hagiorite Tome 344
Of Saint Greogry Palamas, the Archbishop of Thessaloniki
150 Heads about the Natural Knowledge, about the Knowledge about God, about the Moral Life, and about Doing 355
This is the sixth volume of The Romanian Philokalia, out of 12 volumes.
It contains texts of Sai... more This is the sixth volume of The Romanian Philokalia, out of 12 volumes. It contains texts of Saitn Simeon the New Theologian, of Simeon the Pious, and of Nicetas Stethatos.
Wholistic Translation Theory (WTTh) is a totally new approach on translation studies, aiming to c... more Wholistic Translation Theory (WTTh) is a totally new approach on translation studies, aiming to cast a meta-perspective on the domain. WTTh is a holarchy based on reckoning the Translation Theories (TThs) as holons. WTTh grants the same importance to all TThs for it reckons every TTh as a part of the Whole that is the Translation Process (TP), but there is no such thing as a TTh equal to the Whole of the TP. WTTh aims to constitute the basis on which to be built up the TThs-Matrix (Multitude), and in order that to be done it envisages the constitution of a International Center for Wholism in Translation, with the participation of a consortium of universities.
Prologue
As far as we can remember, we have been attracted to spirituality by and large, and star... more Prologue As far as we can remember, we have been attracted to spirituality by and large, and starting with an early age we have been readding Christian Orthodox books, being especially passionate about such publications as: Paterikon, The Romanian Philokalia etc. and not only. When reading The Romanian Philokalia, in twelve volumes, put translated from the Greek language and put together by Priest Professor PhD Academician Dumitru Stăniloae, we discovered a hugely profound theologian, one often explaining, or even contradicting / correcting Holy Father’s sayings. Then we came across with that hugely important book of his, one called Jesus Christ or the Man’s Restoration, one that can be considered as exhaustive in what regards Christendom and Christology. While reading it, a strange idea emerged like from nowhere: let’s translate it in English language… At that time, we only very poorly knew English… But, in the same time, we felt that unavoidable urge driving us to do that translation… Suddenly, without an obvious need for our career, we enlisted and attended for two years, the twelve modules destined to learn English, at the International Language House, a very intense and deep experience. We started translating Jesus Christ or the Man’s Restoration ten years ago, in the year 2012, and ever since, we have translated also six volumes of The Romanian Philokalia (I-V and VIII) and nine more other author volumes (six individual titles) belonging to Priest Professor PhD Academician Dumitru Stăniloae, whom we are going to call, from now on: Saint Dumitru the Restorer of the Christian Theology. There was such a stiff resistance that we have been experiencing against our endeavor! The reactions we endured were: rejection, mockery, deeming our initiative useless and unnecessary, and we have received menacing letters from the most important institution related to our endeavor, warning us that, in the case that we continued translating Saint Dumitru’s works, they would sue us, in civil and even in penal courts… But they were only contributing to the plan God had with us! And there was a person, a living Saint! whom we owe the only support we have been receiving from people: our spiritual guide / our confessor father: Archimandrite Nestor Iovan from the Holy Monastery of Hodoș-Bodrog. We presented him the whole situation and we asked him what have we to do. He advised us to graduate a master in theology, and then a PhD. If we had those degrees, that would scatter the doubts regarding our capacity of understanding what we were translating, and it would have also certified our capacity of translating Saint Dumitru’s theological writings in the English language. We obeyed father confessor’s advices like they were holy commandments given us by God Himself at confession, and started working them in parallel to our incessant translation activity. After graduating the master in theology, we asked for a dispensation in order to enlist for sitting the admission exam in order to attend a doctoral school in theology. We did that because, during the second year of our master studies, for reasons that escapes our rational understanding, the institution responsible for managing the theological studies, it introduced an internal decree destined to forbit the master graduates of entering the theological doctoral schools if they had not firstly graduated a theology faculty, regardless they graduated a master in theology . They answered my request by communicating me, cold blooded, the number of the decree forbidding my PhD attempt. But that also was the will of God, and, with a burdened heart – because I couldn’t understand such a fierce opposition to such a spiritual initiative!... – I asked again the blessing of our spiritual adviser / father confessor, and he agreed our thought of trying to enlist and to graduate a PhD in translations studies. God helped us with our PhD too, and so, we have obtained a PhD in translations studies, at West University of Timisoara, in the year 2021, with the thesis: Translating Christian Religious Texts between the English Language and the Romanian Language. Linguistic and Dogmatic Aspects. Meanwhile we haven’t ceased translating the writings of, as we have been advised by Archimandrite Nestor Iovan, and we have accumulated a number of sixteen translated works . Slowly but unavoidably, the huge theological personality belonging to Saint Dumitru has been becoming ever clearer to us. He was a profound Orthodox theologian, but one that succeeded in identifying and walking the middle path / the balanced path that means the true Christian Orthodoxy. In a way, we think that we can say, that Saint Dumitru has restored the Christian theology by and large, by getting it out of the imagology / paradigms of generated by the ethos of the middle age society, by reconnecting it to the modern society and, most important, by providing the Christians with an open theological system, one capable of adapting to the requirements of the present believers. But we are going to say more on this, in the Introduction. After us realizing the huge importance Saint Dumitru has, not only for Christian Orthodoxy, but for Christendom by and large, this idea of writing a quasi-PhD-thesis on his theological system it occurred to us, and, after we obtained the necessary spiritual blessing, we proceeded to research on scientifical basis, as objective as we have been able to, of what was similar and what was different in saint Dumitru’s theology, comparatively to Holy Fathers’ theology. It turned out that our intuitions regarding Saint Dumitru’s huge theological stature not only have been confirmed, but they have been even hugely exceeded. We kindly urge the reader to freely distribute the present work, on any available format, to whomsoever would be interested in.
No. Theme Pg. 1. Dedications 1 2. Acknowledgements 2 3. Abbreviations 3 4. Reading Tips / Technical Provisions 4 5. Prologue 9 6. Introduction 13 7. Research Hypotheses Confirmation Matrix 27 8. Conclusions 35 9. Further Developments 57 10. Shortcomings 59 11. Corpus Study 64 12. Acedia 65 13. Activity 68 14. Addiction-Passion 74 15. Adoption 126 16. Affects (According-to-Nature-Affects, Bodily Needs) 131 17. Alms 139 18. Angels 142 19. Apostles 154 20. Art 161 21. Ascesis 163 22. Asceticism and Mysticism 173 23. Birth Giver of God / Birth Giver of the Lord / Mother of God / Virgin Mary 178 24. Body 189 25. Charismas 217 26. Christ Jesus 225 27. Christian Dogmas 247 28. Church 257 29. Communication of the Two Natures (Godlike and Human) in Christ’s Person 272 30. Communion Amongst People, and between People and God 279 31. Creation / World / Universe / Cosmos 296 32. Cross / Crucifixion 314 33. Death 320 34. Deeds / Doing 331 35. Deification 344 36. Dialogue with God 354 37. Dispassion / Absence / Removal of Passions / Apatheia 361 38. Dwelling of God within the Human Being / Dwelling of the Human Being within / in Christ 375 39. Egotism / Selfishness 382 40. Embodiment 384 41. En-Humanity / En-Hypostatization 395 42. Epektasis 408 43. Eschatology 410 44. Evil 424 45. Evolution / Progress 444 46. Experiencing / Knowing God 458 47. Faith 466 48. Family / Marriage 476 49. Fasting 483 50. Fear 487 51. Fellow Human / Neighbor 493 52. Forgiveness 497 53. Forsaking 500 54. Freedom / Liberty 502 55. Gentleness and Humbleness 511 56. Gnosis / Gnostic 520 57. God 526 58. Good 543 59. Grace of God 555 60. Guarding the Mind 573 61. Heart 579 62. Heavens / Paradise 585 63. Hell 588 64. Heresy 599 65. Holiness 602 66. Holy Ghost 610 67. Holy Mysteries 628 68. Holy Relics 634 69. Holy Scripture 638 70. Holy Tradition 646 71. Holy Trinity 654 72. Hope 662 73. Human Being / Mankind / Humanity 668 74. Icon / Image of God 676 75. Idol 686 76. Image and Likeness of God 690 77. Immortality 697 78. Judgment 707 79. Justice and Righteousness 716 80. Kenosis 724 81. Kingdom of God / Kingdom of Heavens 735 82. Knowledge / Understanding / Wisdom / Sapience 744 83. Law 761 84. Laymen 770 85. Life 774 86. Logos 783 87. Love 788 88. Luminous Light 802 89. Mercy 810 90. Mind / Rationality 813 91. Monasticism 830 92. Motion / Movement (we have left unchecked the cells because of not being able to make any comments, due to the very high philosophical / theological manner that the theme was approached in)
864 93. Nothingness / Nothing 881 94. Numerology 883 95. Obedience 987 96. Orthodox Apologetics 901 97. Paradise 1030 98. Paradox 1033 99. Personalism 1043 100. Pleasure / Pain 1053 101. Power / Strength 1066 1066 102. Prayer to Jesus / Prayer of the Mind / Prayer of the Heart / Prayer of a Sole Thought 1071 103. Prayer 1088 104. Preaching 1103 105. Predestination / Destiny 1105 106. Priesthood 1112 107. Prophets / Prophecies 1122 108. Providence 1140 109. Repentance 1148 110. Responsibility 1168 111. Resting 1184 112. Restoration 1186 113. Resurrection 1190 114. Revelation 1205 115. Sacrifice 1219 116. Saint 1231 117. Salvation 1241 118. Science 1265 119. Seeing on God 1273 120. Senses 1288 121. Sex 1297 122. Sin 1315 123. Soul 1326 124. Space / Distance 1337 125. Spirituality / Spiritualness / Spiritualization 1344 126. Sufferance / Suffering 1354 127. Symbol 1365 128. Tears / Crying 1375 129. Temptation / Trial / Test / Trouble 1381 130. Tent 1393 131. Thoughts 1392 132. Time / History / Eternity / Ages / Eon / Era 1414 133. Transcendence 1430 134. Transparency to God 1446 135. Tropes 1458 136. Unapproachable Light / Uncreated Divine Energies 1492 137. Union with God / with Fellow Humans 1513 138. Virtue 1527 139. Vision 1536 140. Weakness 1546 141. Will 1552 142. Woman 1557 143. Wonders 1566 144. Word of God 1577 145. Work 1602 146. Worry 1619 147. Worshipping 1631 148. Bibliography 1646 149. Appendix I – Saint Dumitru the Restorer’s Biography and Bibliography 1649
150. Appendix II – Theological Florilegium on Theological Themes 1663 151. Acedia 1664 152. Activity 1668 153. Addiction / Passions 1692 154. Adoption 1913 155. Affects (According-to-Nature-Affects, Bodily Needs) 1956 156. Alms / Charity 1977 157. Angels 1988 158. Apostles 2052 159. Art 2091 160. Ascesis 2095 161. Asceticism and Mysticism 2158 162. Birth Giver of God / Birth Giver of the Lord / Mother of God / Virgin Mary 2186 163. Body 2224 164. Charismas / Gifts from the Holy Ghost 2351 165. Christ Jesus 2391 166. Christian Dogmas 2560 167. Church 2597 168. Communication of the Two Natures (Godlike and Human) in Christ’s Person 2658 169. Communion Amongst People, and between People and God 2682 170. Creation / World / Universe / Cosmos 2777 171. Cross / Crucifixion 3007 172. Death 3037 173. Deeds / Doing 3127 174. Deification / Sanctification 3168 175. Dialogue with God 3221 176. Dispassion / Absence / Removal of Passions / Apatheia 3251 177. Dwelling of God within the Human Being / Dwelling of the Human Being within / in Christ 3315 178. Egotism / Selfishness 3344 179. Embodiment 3346 180. En-Humanity / En-Hypostatization 3401 181. Epektasis 3416 182. Eschatology 3418 183. Evil 3455 184. Evolution / Progress 3544 185. Experiencing / Knowing God 3560 186. Faith 3573 187. Family / Marriage / Having Children 3647 188. Fasting 3666 189. Fear 3687 190. Fellow Human / Neighbor 3737 191. Forgiveness 3744 192. Forsaking by God 3751 193. Freedom / Liberty 3755 194. Gentleness and Humbleness 3792 195. Gnosis / Gnostic 3838 196. God 3849 197. Good 3952 198. Grace of God 3984 199. Guarding the Mind 4049 200. Heart 4077 201. Heavens / Paradise 4125 202. Hell 4133 203. Heresy 4167 204. Holiness 4171 205. Holy Ghost 4190 206. Holy Mysteries 4266 207. Holy Relics 4458 208. Holy Scripture 4461 209. Holy Tradition 4496 210. Holy Trinity 4511 211. Hope 4578 212. Human Being / Mankind / Humanity 4599 213. Icon / Image of God 4685 214. Idol 4780 215. Image and Likeness of God 4794 216. Immortality 4807 217. Judgment 4822 218. Justice and Righteousness 4870 219. Kenosis 4890 220. Kingdom of God / Kingdom of Heavens 4916 221. Knowledge / Understanding / Wisdom / Sapience 4933 222. Law 5163 223. Laymen 5195 224. Life 5208 225. Logos 5245 226. Love 5251 227. Luminous Light 5396 228. Mercy 5404 229. Mind / Rationality 5415 230. Monasticism 5668 231. Motion / Movement (we have left unchecked the cells because of not being able to make any comments, due to the very high philosophical / theological manner that the theme was approached in)
5759 232. Nothingness / Nothing 5782 233. Numerology 5784 234. Obedience / Disobedience 5800 235. Orthodox Apologetics 5827 236. Paradise / Heavens 5976 237. Paradox 5982 238. Personalism 5992 239. Pleasure / Pain 6132 240. Power / Strength 6200 241. Prayer to Jesus / Prayer of the Mind / Prayer of the Heart / Prayer of a Sole Thought 6244 242. Prayer 6300 243. Preaching 6471 244. Predestination / Destiny 6479 245. Priesthood 6491 246. Prophets / Prophecies 6544 247. Providence 6578 248. Repentance 6599 249. Responsibility 6645 250. Resting 6664 251. Restoration 6679 252. Resurrection 6683 253. Revelation 6732 254. Sacrifice 6748 255. Saint 6765 256. Salvation 6783 257. Science 6835 258. Seeing on God 6856 259. Senses (Organs of Bodily Sensing) 6922 260. Sex 6952 261. Sin 6970 262. Soul 7048 263. Space / Distance 7135 264. Spirituality / Spiritualness / Spiritualization 7147 265. Sufferance / Suffering 7172 266. Symbol 7208 267. Tears / Crying 7224 268. Temptation / Trial / Test / Trouble 7246 269. Tent 7290 270. Thoughts 7309 271. Time / History / Eternity / Ages / Eon / Era 7414 272. Transcendence 7508 273. Transparency to God 7528 274. Tropes 7563 275. Unapproachable Light / Uncreated Divine Energies 7604 276. Union with God / with Fellow Humans 7695 277. Virtue 7739 278. Vision 7808 279. Weakness 7816 280. Will 7831 281. Woman 7838 282. Wonders 7866 283. Word of God 7879 284. Work 7915 285. Worry / Worries / Worried 7962 286. Worshipping / Worship / Worshipped 7995
Traducerea textelor religioase crestine este un domeniu de studiu foarte complex, care pune in fa... more Traducerea textelor religioase crestine este un domeniu de studiu foarte complex, care pune in fata traducatorului dificultati generate de aspecte diverse. A alege intre echivalenta formala si echivalenta functionala, a recunoaste expresiile idiomatice, colocatiile, elementele de tehnolect teologic, toate acestea cad in sarcina traducatorului. Iar traducerea este in mod fundamental determinata doctrinar.
This volume too, it belongs to the twelve volumes translated from Greek language and put together... more This volume too, it belongs to the twelve volumes translated from Greek language and put together by Saint Father Dumitru Stăniloae - the Restorer of the Christian Theology. He was translating the texts grouped in The Romanian Philokalia for 45 years, with a interruption caused by his jailing, innocent, as political and religious prisoner, in the communist prisons.
Final issue of the Dictionary of the Religious Terms.
Starting from today, we reckon as finish... more Final issue of the Dictionary of the Religious Terms.
Starting from today, we reckon as finished the elaboration of the present dictionary, because we have been no longer encountering new terms, and the complicated expressions have been occurring very rarely. We reckon that, the translators have, in the present dictionary, the sufficient means for accomplishing satisfactory translations. The elaboration of the present dictionary has been taking place between the years: 2012-2023 (on a daily basis, with only some short and totally justified recesses, while working on the theses for our two PhDs, and while being sick).
Father Professor Academician Dumitru Staniloae succeded in creating his own theological system, t... more Father Professor Academician Dumitru Staniloae succeded in creating his own theological system, that could be call as philosophical-theology, or as theological-philosophy, whilst still remaining close and connected to the Orthodoxy and to the Holy Fathers of the Church. In the main time, he restored the Christian theology, by bringing it up to date, by removing the outdated influences of the thinking from the slavery and medieval periods. He developed a totally new theology about hell; he restored the importance of the world and of the human body; he spoke about the blessing of the marriage etc. His writing are a starting point for bringing Christendom up to date, now that we've entered the spatial era, when the world means, actually, the whole universe, and the Gospel must be preached to the most far places of the cosmos.
A theological philosophy, or a philosophical theology, a masterpiece of Father Professor Stanilo... more A theological philosophy, or a philosophical theology, a masterpiece of Father Professor Staniloae's theological thinking. And a restoring one too, for He bring back on tracks the so derailed and full of excesses Christian theology.
This work of Father Professor Dumitru Staniloae is the most difficult to read for it is the highe... more This work of Father Professor Dumitru Staniloae is the most difficult to read for it is the highest masterpiece of his theology! It is, actually, about theological philosophy. It is the coronation of the whole his theological life, namely it is the result of what he impropriated from Christendom, of what he lived and felt in the real circumstances of his life, of what he corelated in a coherent system. A characteristic is that he used only a few quotes, and those are taken mainly from the Gospels. So, this book hasn't the usual profile of a theological book: as made from other books. It is almost entirely original!
This maturity work of Father Professor Dumitru Stăniloae synthesizes all his theology which he pr... more This maturity work of Father Professor Dumitru Stăniloae synthesizes all his theology which he presented from the perspective that God is luminous light and he makes us, by deifying us, also luminous lights.
This is an excerpt; we've let aside the historical commentaries and data, and the arguments broug... more This is an excerpt; we've let aside the historical commentaries and data, and the arguments brought by Barlaam; we've mainly taken quotes of the sayings of Saint Gregory Palamas, and of Father Professor Dumitru Stăniloae, referring to concrete aspects related to: the Prayer of the Heart, the Unapproachable Light (the Light of Tabor), the Uncreated Divine Energies, Hesychasm etc. We haven't translated here the original texts translated by Father Professor Dumitru Stăniloae the Greek language, those presented between the pages 162-301, for we are sure that those texts have already been translated in English language, and, again, our purpose is to shows what Father Professor Stăniloae affirmed, criticized, or developed, regarding the main themes.
Father Professor Dumitru Staniloae did in this book a thorough and extensive analysis and apology... more Father Professor Dumitru Staniloae did in this book a thorough and extensive analysis and apology of the Orthodox icon, answering all the denials and the negative arguments the iconoclasts brought and are bringing, yore and today. It is argues the possibility of representing God and thesaint in icons, the fact that in front of the icon we worship the prototype of that icon, namely Christ God.
Semiotics, Translation Studies, Rhetoric, Discourse, General Linguistics. The present dictionary ... more Semiotics, Translation Studies, Rhetoric, Discourse, General Linguistics. The present dictionary uses quotes from the great linguist - amongst the greatest ones -: Eugeniu Coșeriu, who wrote in Spanish, Italian, and Romanian, and that's why he is almost unknown to the English linguistic and cultural environment. The dictionary offers the main terms and their definitions one needs to navigate the treacherous water of thelinguistic sciences.
A synthesis of all the crucial elements which the Orthodox Spirituality distinguishes itself with... more A synthesis of all the crucial elements which the Orthodox Spirituality distinguishes itself with. Asceticism is thoroughly analyzed. the mysticism, far from being somethings bad, it actually means: man's deification and union with God through the uncreated divine energies. Man becomes god by grace and not by nature.
Cuvântul teologic transmite adevăruri de credință și de aceea este un semnificant al cărui semnif... more Cuvântul teologic transmite adevăruri de credință și de aceea este un semnificant al cărui semnificat are o natură teandrică. Stabilirea unor echivalențe care să nu încalce caracteristicile doctrinare trebuie să fie pe prin planul preocupărilor privind traducerea textelor religioase creștine ortodoxe. Teologii și lingviștii română trebuie să dezvolte un tehnolect englez adaptate redării cât mai fidele a textelor religoase creștine ortodoxă în limba engleză.
Father Professor Ion Bria is one of the most important theologians of the Romanian Orthodox Churc... more Father Professor Ion Bria is one of the most important theologians of the Romanian Orthodox Church. Among other numerous works, this Explanatory Dictionary of Orthodox Theology is an exhaustive treasure of Orthodox theological information, so useful to all the people interested in theology.
Father Professor Dumitru Stăniloae is the greatest Romanian theologian of all times, and he is on... more Father Professor Dumitru Stăniloae is the greatest Romanian theologian of all times, and he is one of the greatest of all Christendom. His work's renewing potential is unexplored and huge. he approaches the most difficult places of the Christian faith and gives them coherent explanations. He introduces new theological categories or develops others already existent. He is a Restorer of the Christian faith liberating the faith from the Middle Age visions but still remaining in the truth of the Revelation.
This is a translation in English language, of the volume IV of The Romanian Philokalia (in twelve... more This is a translation in English language, of the volume IV of The Romanian Philokalia (in twelve volumes), translated and put together in the Romanian language – by using the original texts from Greek language - by Priest Professor PhD Academician Dumitru Stăniloae, an illustrious Christian theologian and a Restorer of the Christian faith to its good measures it had in the Gospel of Jesus Christ our Savior. Very interesting are the notes Father Stăniloae added and the order he chose to present the texts in. We tried especially to preserve the specificity of the language Father Stăniloae had, which was a very difficult task because he was an innovator of the theological language too. We believe the notes he added have a paramount importance in explaining the things the Holy Fathers wanted to say, sometimes to temperate some exaggerations, but bringing the content, all the time, up to date in the modern context of the present theology.
This is a translation in English language, of the volume III of The Romanian Philokalia (in twelv... more This is a translation in English language, of the volume III of The Romanian Philokalia (in twelve volumes), translated and put together in the Romanian language – by using the original texts from Greek language - by Priest Professor PhD Academician Dumitru Stăniloae, an illustrious Christian theologian and a Restorer of the Christian faith to its good measures it had in the Gospel of Jesus Christ our Savior. Very interesting are the notes Father Stăniloae added and the order he chose to present the texts in. We tried especially to preserve the specificity of the language Father Stăniloae had, which was a very difficult task because he was an innovator of the theological language too. We believe the notes he added have a paramount importance in explaining the things the Holy Fathers wanted to say, sometimes to temperate some exaggerations, but bringing the content, all the time, up to date in the modern context of the present theology.
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Priest Professor PhD Academician Dumitru, The Romanian Philokalia, volume X, E.I.B.M.O., Bucharest,
Writings by:
Nicephorus from Loneliness, Theoleptos of Philadelphia, Saint Gregory the Sinaite, Saint Gregory Palamas
About prayer, Watchfulness, and Guarding the Heart, of Nicephorus from Loneliness 3
Nicephorus from Loneliness. Short Biographical Note 4
Word about Prayer. Of Nicephorus from Loneliness 8
From the Life of Our Pious Father Anthony 10
From the Life of Saint Theodosius, the Cenobiarch (The Exarch of the Coenobitic Communities)
11
From the Life of Saint Arsenius 12
From the Life of Saint Paul from Latro 12
From the Life of Saint Sava 13
From the Life of Saint Agathon 14
From Abba Mark (towards Nicholas) 14
From Saint John Climacus 15
From Abba Isaiah 16
From Makarios the Great 17
From Diadochus 17
From Isaac the Syrian 17
From the Carpathian 18
From Simeon the New Theologian 18
Of Theoleptos Metropolitan of Philadelphia.
Word about the Toils of the Monastic Life.
And
Word about That Word Hidden into Christ
28
Metropolitan Theoleptos of Philadelphia
His Life and His Writings
28
The Word of Theoleptos, Metropolitan of Philadelphia, about the Toils of the Monastic Life
36
Of the Same Theoleptos of Philadelphia, Word about That Word Hidden into Christ
56
Of the One amongst the Saitns, our Father Gregory of Sinai
Very Useful Heads in Acrostic
And other Writings
62
Saint Gregory the Sinaite. His life 63
The Writings of Gregory Sinaite 74
Of the One Amongst Saints, Our Father Gregory Sinaite
Very Useful Heads in Acrostic, of which Acrostic is this: Diverse Words about Commandments, Dogmas, Menaces and Promises, and even about Thoughts, Passions, and Virtues; and then about Appeasement and Prayer.
80
Other Heads of the same One 140
About the Passionate Transformation 141
About the Good Transformation 142
Of the Same One
Detailed teaching about appeasement and prayer, about the signs of the grace and of the deceit; and then, about the difference between warmth and work; and that without an adviser there comes easily the delusion. (Head in The Greek Philokalia: 10; here we have 14 heads).
143
About the Way One Can Find the Word 145
Of Saint Gregory Palamas
Word for Them Who Appease Themselves Piously
154
The Third Word of the Last Ones
About the Holy Light
155
The Second Word from the Last Ones
About Prayer
180
The Third Word from the Last Ones
About the Holy Light
215
Of Saint Gregory Palamas
Out of the Word of Saint John Chrysostom at the First Martyr Stephen
309
Of Saint Gregory Palamas
About the Godlike and Deifying Impartation; or about the Godlike and Above-Nature Simplicity
311
The Hagiorite Tome 344
Of Saint Greogry Palamas, the Archbishop of Thessaloniki
150 Heads about the Natural Knowledge, about the Knowledge about God, about the Moral Life, and about Doing 355
It contains texts of Saitn Simeon the New Theologian, of Simeon the Pious, and of Nicetas Stethatos.
As far as we can remember, we have been attracted to spirituality by and large, and starting with an early age we have been readding Christian Orthodox books, being especially passionate about such publications as: Paterikon, The Romanian Philokalia etc. and not only.
When reading The Romanian Philokalia, in twelve volumes, put translated from the Greek language and put together by Priest Professor PhD Academician Dumitru Stăniloae, we discovered a hugely profound theologian, one often explaining, or even contradicting / correcting Holy Father’s sayings.
Then we came across with that hugely important book of his, one called Jesus Christ or the Man’s Restoration, one that can be considered as exhaustive in what regards Christendom and Christology. While reading it, a strange idea emerged like from nowhere: let’s translate it in English language… At that time, we only very poorly knew English… But, in the same time, we felt that unavoidable urge driving us to do that translation…
Suddenly, without an obvious need for our career, we enlisted and attended for two years, the twelve modules destined to learn English, at the International Language House, a very intense and deep experience.
We started translating Jesus Christ or the Man’s Restoration ten years ago, in the year 2012, and ever since, we have translated also six volumes of The Romanian Philokalia (I-V and VIII) and nine more other author volumes (six individual titles) belonging to Priest Professor PhD Academician Dumitru Stăniloae, whom we are going to call, from now on: Saint Dumitru the Restorer of the Christian Theology.
There was such a stiff resistance that we have been experiencing against our endeavor! The reactions we endured were: rejection, mockery, deeming our initiative useless and unnecessary, and we have received menacing letters from the most important institution related to our endeavor, warning us that, in the case that we continued translating Saint Dumitru’s works, they would sue us, in civil and even in penal courts…
But they were only contributing to the plan God had with us! And there was a person, a living Saint! whom we owe the only support we have been receiving from people: our spiritual guide / our confessor father: Archimandrite Nestor Iovan from the Holy Monastery of Hodoș-Bodrog. We presented him the whole situation and we asked him what have we to do. He advised us to graduate a master in theology, and then a PhD. If we had those degrees, that would scatter the doubts regarding our capacity of understanding what we were translating, and it would have also certified our capacity of translating Saint Dumitru’s theological writings in the English language.
We obeyed father confessor’s advices like they were holy commandments given us by God Himself at confession, and started working them in parallel to our incessant translation activity. After graduating the master in theology, we asked for a dispensation in order to enlist for sitting the admission exam in order to attend a doctoral school in theology. We did that because, during the second year of our master studies, for reasons that escapes our rational understanding, the institution responsible for managing the theological studies, it introduced an internal decree destined to forbit the master graduates of entering the theological doctoral schools if they had not firstly graduated a theology faculty, regardless they graduated a master in theology . They answered my request by communicating me, cold blooded, the number of the decree forbidding my PhD attempt.
But that also was the will of God, and, with a burdened heart – because I couldn’t understand such a fierce opposition to such a spiritual initiative!... – I asked again the blessing of our spiritual adviser / father confessor, and he agreed our thought of trying to enlist and to graduate a PhD in translations studies.
God helped us with our PhD too, and so, we have obtained a PhD in translations studies, at West University of Timisoara, in the year 2021, with the thesis: Translating Christian Religious Texts between the English Language and the Romanian Language. Linguistic and Dogmatic Aspects.
Meanwhile we haven’t ceased translating the writings of, as we have been advised by Archimandrite Nestor Iovan, and we have accumulated a number of sixteen translated works . Slowly but unavoidably, the huge theological personality belonging to Saint Dumitru has been becoming ever clearer to us. He was a profound Orthodox theologian, but one that succeeded in identifying and walking the middle path / the balanced path that means the true Christian Orthodoxy. In a way, we think that we can say, that Saint Dumitru has restored the Christian theology by and large, by getting it out of the imagology / paradigms of generated by the ethos of the middle age society, by reconnecting it to the modern society and, most important, by providing the Christians with an open theological system, one capable of adapting to the requirements of the present believers. But we are going to say more on this, in the Introduction.
After us realizing the huge importance Saint Dumitru has, not only for Christian Orthodoxy, but for Christendom by and large, this idea of writing a quasi-PhD-thesis on his theological system it occurred to us, and, after we obtained the necessary spiritual blessing, we proceeded to research on scientifical basis, as objective as we have been able to, of what was similar and what was different in saint Dumitru’s theology, comparatively to Holy Fathers’ theology.
It turned out that our intuitions regarding Saint Dumitru’s huge theological stature not only have been confirmed, but they have been even hugely exceeded.
We kindly urge the reader to freely distribute the present work, on any available format, to whomsoever would be interested in.
No. Theme Pg.
1. Dedications 1
2. Acknowledgements 2
3. Abbreviations 3
4. Reading Tips / Technical Provisions 4
5. Prologue 9
6. Introduction 13
7. Research Hypotheses Confirmation Matrix 27
8. Conclusions 35
9. Further Developments 57
10. Shortcomings 59
11. Corpus Study 64
12. Acedia 65
13. Activity 68
14. Addiction-Passion 74
15. Adoption 126
16. Affects (According-to-Nature-Affects, Bodily Needs) 131
17. Alms 139
18. Angels 142
19. Apostles 154
20. Art 161
21. Ascesis 163
22. Asceticism and Mysticism 173
23. Birth Giver of God / Birth Giver of the Lord / Mother of God / Virgin Mary 178
24. Body 189
25. Charismas 217
26. Christ Jesus 225
27. Christian Dogmas 247
28. Church 257
29. Communication of the Two Natures (Godlike and Human) in Christ’s Person
272
30. Communion Amongst People, and between People and God
279
31. Creation / World / Universe / Cosmos 296
32. Cross / Crucifixion 314
33. Death 320
34. Deeds / Doing 331
35. Deification 344
36. Dialogue with God 354
37. Dispassion / Absence / Removal of Passions / Apatheia
361
38. Dwelling of God within the Human Being / Dwelling of the Human Being within / in Christ
375
39. Egotism / Selfishness 382
40. Embodiment 384
41. En-Humanity / En-Hypostatization 395
42. Epektasis 408
43. Eschatology 410
44. Evil 424
45. Evolution / Progress 444
46. Experiencing / Knowing God 458
47. Faith 466
48. Family / Marriage 476
49. Fasting 483
50. Fear 487
51. Fellow Human / Neighbor 493
52. Forgiveness 497
53. Forsaking 500
54. Freedom / Liberty 502
55. Gentleness and Humbleness 511
56. Gnosis / Gnostic 520
57. God 526
58. Good 543
59. Grace of God 555
60. Guarding the Mind 573
61. Heart 579
62. Heavens / Paradise 585
63. Hell 588
64. Heresy 599
65. Holiness 602
66. Holy Ghost 610
67. Holy Mysteries 628
68. Holy Relics 634
69. Holy Scripture 638
70. Holy Tradition 646
71. Holy Trinity 654
72. Hope 662
73. Human Being / Mankind / Humanity 668
74. Icon / Image of God 676
75. Idol 686
76. Image and Likeness of God 690
77. Immortality 697
78. Judgment 707
79. Justice and Righteousness 716
80. Kenosis 724
81. Kingdom of God / Kingdom of Heavens 735
82. Knowledge / Understanding / Wisdom / Sapience 744
83. Law 761
84. Laymen 770
85. Life 774
86. Logos 783
87. Love 788
88. Luminous Light 802
89. Mercy 810
90. Mind / Rationality 813
91. Monasticism 830
92. Motion / Movement (we have left unchecked the cells because of not being able to make any comments, due to the very high philosophical / theological manner that the theme was approached in)
864
93. Nothingness / Nothing 881
94. Numerology 883
95. Obedience 987
96. Orthodox Apologetics 901
97. Paradise 1030
98. Paradox 1033
99. Personalism 1043
100. Pleasure / Pain 1053
101. Power / Strength 1066 1066
102. Prayer to Jesus / Prayer of the Mind / Prayer of the Heart / Prayer of a Sole Thought
1071
103. Prayer 1088
104. Preaching 1103
105. Predestination / Destiny 1105
106. Priesthood 1112
107. Prophets / Prophecies 1122
108. Providence 1140
109. Repentance 1148
110. Responsibility 1168
111. Resting 1184
112. Restoration 1186
113. Resurrection 1190
114. Revelation 1205
115. Sacrifice 1219
116. Saint 1231
117. Salvation 1241
118. Science 1265
119. Seeing on God 1273
120. Senses 1288
121. Sex 1297
122. Sin 1315
123. Soul 1326
124. Space / Distance 1337
125. Spirituality / Spiritualness / Spiritualization 1344
126. Sufferance / Suffering 1354
127. Symbol 1365
128. Tears / Crying 1375
129. Temptation / Trial / Test / Trouble 1381
130. Tent 1393
131. Thoughts 1392
132. Time / History / Eternity / Ages / Eon / Era 1414
133. Transcendence 1430
134. Transparency to God 1446
135. Tropes 1458
136. Unapproachable Light / Uncreated Divine Energies 1492
137. Union with God / with Fellow Humans 1513
138. Virtue 1527
139. Vision 1536
140. Weakness 1546
141. Will 1552
142. Woman 1557
143. Wonders 1566
144. Word of God 1577
145. Work 1602
146. Worry 1619
147. Worshipping 1631
148. Bibliography 1646
149. Appendix I – Saint Dumitru the Restorer’s Biography and Bibliography 1649
150. Appendix II – Theological Florilegium on Theological Themes 1663
151. Acedia 1664
152. Activity 1668
153. Addiction / Passions 1692
154. Adoption 1913
155. Affects (According-to-Nature-Affects, Bodily Needs) 1956
156. Alms / Charity 1977
157. Angels 1988
158. Apostles 2052
159. Art 2091
160. Ascesis 2095
161. Asceticism and Mysticism 2158
162. Birth Giver of God / Birth Giver of the Lord / Mother of God / Virgin Mary
2186
163. Body 2224
164. Charismas / Gifts from the Holy Ghost 2351
165. Christ Jesus 2391
166. Christian Dogmas 2560
167. Church 2597
168. Communication of the Two Natures (Godlike and Human) in Christ’s Person 2658
169. Communion Amongst People, and between People and God 2682
170. Creation / World / Universe / Cosmos 2777
171. Cross / Crucifixion 3007
172. Death 3037
173. Deeds / Doing 3127
174. Deification / Sanctification 3168
175. Dialogue with God 3221
176. Dispassion / Absence / Removal of Passions / Apatheia
3251
177. Dwelling of God within the Human Being / Dwelling of the Human Being within / in Christ
3315
178. Egotism / Selfishness 3344
179. Embodiment 3346
180. En-Humanity / En-Hypostatization 3401
181. Epektasis 3416
182. Eschatology 3418
183. Evil 3455
184. Evolution / Progress 3544
185. Experiencing / Knowing God 3560
186. Faith 3573
187. Family / Marriage / Having Children 3647
188. Fasting 3666
189. Fear 3687
190. Fellow Human / Neighbor 3737
191. Forgiveness 3744
192. Forsaking by God 3751
193. Freedom / Liberty 3755
194. Gentleness and Humbleness 3792
195. Gnosis / Gnostic 3838
196. God 3849
197. Good 3952
198. Grace of God 3984
199. Guarding the Mind 4049
200. Heart 4077
201. Heavens / Paradise 4125
202. Hell 4133
203. Heresy 4167
204. Holiness 4171
205. Holy Ghost 4190
206. Holy Mysteries 4266
207. Holy Relics 4458
208. Holy Scripture 4461
209. Holy Tradition 4496
210. Holy Trinity 4511
211. Hope 4578
212. Human Being / Mankind / Humanity 4599
213. Icon / Image of God 4685
214. Idol 4780
215. Image and Likeness of God 4794
216. Immortality 4807
217. Judgment 4822
218. Justice and Righteousness 4870
219. Kenosis 4890
220. Kingdom of God / Kingdom of Heavens 4916
221. Knowledge / Understanding / Wisdom / Sapience 4933
222. Law 5163
223. Laymen 5195
224. Life 5208
225. Logos 5245
226. Love 5251
227. Luminous Light 5396
228. Mercy 5404
229. Mind / Rationality 5415
230. Monasticism 5668
231. Motion / Movement (we have left unchecked the cells because of not being able to make any comments, due to the very high philosophical / theological manner that the theme was approached in)
5759
232. Nothingness / Nothing 5782
233. Numerology 5784
234. Obedience / Disobedience 5800
235. Orthodox Apologetics 5827
236. Paradise / Heavens 5976
237. Paradox 5982
238. Personalism 5992
239. Pleasure / Pain 6132
240. Power / Strength 6200
241. Prayer to Jesus / Prayer of the Mind / Prayer of the Heart / Prayer of a Sole Thought
6244
242. Prayer 6300
243. Preaching 6471
244. Predestination / Destiny 6479
245. Priesthood 6491
246. Prophets / Prophecies 6544
247. Providence 6578
248. Repentance 6599
249. Responsibility 6645
250. Resting 6664
251. Restoration 6679
252. Resurrection 6683
253. Revelation 6732
254. Sacrifice 6748
255. Saint 6765
256. Salvation 6783
257. Science 6835
258. Seeing on God 6856
259. Senses (Organs of Bodily Sensing) 6922
260. Sex 6952
261. Sin 6970
262. Soul 7048
263. Space / Distance 7135
264. Spirituality / Spiritualness / Spiritualization 7147
265. Sufferance / Suffering 7172
266. Symbol 7208
267. Tears / Crying 7224
268. Temptation / Trial / Test / Trouble 7246
269. Tent 7290
270. Thoughts 7309
271. Time / History / Eternity / Ages / Eon / Era 7414
272. Transcendence 7508
273. Transparency to God 7528
274. Tropes 7563
275. Unapproachable Light / Uncreated Divine Energies 7604
276. Union with God / with Fellow Humans 7695
277. Virtue 7739
278. Vision 7808
279. Weakness 7816
280. Will 7831
281. Woman 7838
282. Wonders 7866
283. Word of God 7879
284. Work 7915
285. Worry / Worries / Worried 7962
286. Worshipping / Worship / Worshipped 7995
Starting from today, we reckon as finished the elaboration of the present dictionary, because we have been no longer encountering new terms, and the complicated expressions have been occurring very rarely. We reckon that, the translators have, in the present dictionary, the sufficient means for accomplishing satisfactory translations. The elaboration of the present dictionary has been taking place between the years: 2012-2023 (on a daily basis, with only some short and totally justified recesses, while working on the theses for our two PhDs, and while being sick).
Priest Professor PhD Academician Dumitru, The Romanian Philokalia, volume X, E.I.B.M.O., Bucharest,
Writings by:
Nicephorus from Loneliness, Theoleptos of Philadelphia, Saint Gregory the Sinaite, Saint Gregory Palamas
About prayer, Watchfulness, and Guarding the Heart, of Nicephorus from Loneliness 3
Nicephorus from Loneliness. Short Biographical Note 4
Word about Prayer. Of Nicephorus from Loneliness 8
From the Life of Our Pious Father Anthony 10
From the Life of Saint Theodosius, the Cenobiarch (The Exarch of the Coenobitic Communities)
11
From the Life of Saint Arsenius 12
From the Life of Saint Paul from Latro 12
From the Life of Saint Sava 13
From the Life of Saint Agathon 14
From Abba Mark (towards Nicholas) 14
From Saint John Climacus 15
From Abba Isaiah 16
From Makarios the Great 17
From Diadochus 17
From Isaac the Syrian 17
From the Carpathian 18
From Simeon the New Theologian 18
Of Theoleptos Metropolitan of Philadelphia.
Word about the Toils of the Monastic Life.
And
Word about That Word Hidden into Christ
28
Metropolitan Theoleptos of Philadelphia
His Life and His Writings
28
The Word of Theoleptos, Metropolitan of Philadelphia, about the Toils of the Monastic Life
36
Of the Same Theoleptos of Philadelphia, Word about That Word Hidden into Christ
56
Of the One amongst the Saitns, our Father Gregory of Sinai
Very Useful Heads in Acrostic
And other Writings
62
Saint Gregory the Sinaite. His life 63
The Writings of Gregory Sinaite 74
Of the One Amongst Saints, Our Father Gregory Sinaite
Very Useful Heads in Acrostic, of which Acrostic is this: Diverse Words about Commandments, Dogmas, Menaces and Promises, and even about Thoughts, Passions, and Virtues; and then about Appeasement and Prayer.
80
Other Heads of the same One 140
About the Passionate Transformation 141
About the Good Transformation 142
Of the Same One
Detailed teaching about appeasement and prayer, about the signs of the grace and of the deceit; and then, about the difference between warmth and work; and that without an adviser there comes easily the delusion. (Head in The Greek Philokalia: 10; here we have 14 heads).
143
About the Way One Can Find the Word 145
Of Saint Gregory Palamas
Word for Them Who Appease Themselves Piously
154
The Third Word of the Last Ones
About the Holy Light
155
The Second Word from the Last Ones
About Prayer
180
The Third Word from the Last Ones
About the Holy Light
215
Of Saint Gregory Palamas
Out of the Word of Saint John Chrysostom at the First Martyr Stephen
309
Of Saint Gregory Palamas
About the Godlike and Deifying Impartation; or about the Godlike and Above-Nature Simplicity
311
The Hagiorite Tome 344
Of Saint Greogry Palamas, the Archbishop of Thessaloniki
150 Heads about the Natural Knowledge, about the Knowledge about God, about the Moral Life, and about Doing 355
It contains texts of Saitn Simeon the New Theologian, of Simeon the Pious, and of Nicetas Stethatos.
As far as we can remember, we have been attracted to spirituality by and large, and starting with an early age we have been readding Christian Orthodox books, being especially passionate about such publications as: Paterikon, The Romanian Philokalia etc. and not only.
When reading The Romanian Philokalia, in twelve volumes, put translated from the Greek language and put together by Priest Professor PhD Academician Dumitru Stăniloae, we discovered a hugely profound theologian, one often explaining, or even contradicting / correcting Holy Father’s sayings.
Then we came across with that hugely important book of his, one called Jesus Christ or the Man’s Restoration, one that can be considered as exhaustive in what regards Christendom and Christology. While reading it, a strange idea emerged like from nowhere: let’s translate it in English language… At that time, we only very poorly knew English… But, in the same time, we felt that unavoidable urge driving us to do that translation…
Suddenly, without an obvious need for our career, we enlisted and attended for two years, the twelve modules destined to learn English, at the International Language House, a very intense and deep experience.
We started translating Jesus Christ or the Man’s Restoration ten years ago, in the year 2012, and ever since, we have translated also six volumes of The Romanian Philokalia (I-V and VIII) and nine more other author volumes (six individual titles) belonging to Priest Professor PhD Academician Dumitru Stăniloae, whom we are going to call, from now on: Saint Dumitru the Restorer of the Christian Theology.
There was such a stiff resistance that we have been experiencing against our endeavor! The reactions we endured were: rejection, mockery, deeming our initiative useless and unnecessary, and we have received menacing letters from the most important institution related to our endeavor, warning us that, in the case that we continued translating Saint Dumitru’s works, they would sue us, in civil and even in penal courts…
But they were only contributing to the plan God had with us! And there was a person, a living Saint! whom we owe the only support we have been receiving from people: our spiritual guide / our confessor father: Archimandrite Nestor Iovan from the Holy Monastery of Hodoș-Bodrog. We presented him the whole situation and we asked him what have we to do. He advised us to graduate a master in theology, and then a PhD. If we had those degrees, that would scatter the doubts regarding our capacity of understanding what we were translating, and it would have also certified our capacity of translating Saint Dumitru’s theological writings in the English language.
We obeyed father confessor’s advices like they were holy commandments given us by God Himself at confession, and started working them in parallel to our incessant translation activity. After graduating the master in theology, we asked for a dispensation in order to enlist for sitting the admission exam in order to attend a doctoral school in theology. We did that because, during the second year of our master studies, for reasons that escapes our rational understanding, the institution responsible for managing the theological studies, it introduced an internal decree destined to forbit the master graduates of entering the theological doctoral schools if they had not firstly graduated a theology faculty, regardless they graduated a master in theology . They answered my request by communicating me, cold blooded, the number of the decree forbidding my PhD attempt.
But that also was the will of God, and, with a burdened heart – because I couldn’t understand such a fierce opposition to such a spiritual initiative!... – I asked again the blessing of our spiritual adviser / father confessor, and he agreed our thought of trying to enlist and to graduate a PhD in translations studies.
God helped us with our PhD too, and so, we have obtained a PhD in translations studies, at West University of Timisoara, in the year 2021, with the thesis: Translating Christian Religious Texts between the English Language and the Romanian Language. Linguistic and Dogmatic Aspects.
Meanwhile we haven’t ceased translating the writings of, as we have been advised by Archimandrite Nestor Iovan, and we have accumulated a number of sixteen translated works . Slowly but unavoidably, the huge theological personality belonging to Saint Dumitru has been becoming ever clearer to us. He was a profound Orthodox theologian, but one that succeeded in identifying and walking the middle path / the balanced path that means the true Christian Orthodoxy. In a way, we think that we can say, that Saint Dumitru has restored the Christian theology by and large, by getting it out of the imagology / paradigms of generated by the ethos of the middle age society, by reconnecting it to the modern society and, most important, by providing the Christians with an open theological system, one capable of adapting to the requirements of the present believers. But we are going to say more on this, in the Introduction.
After us realizing the huge importance Saint Dumitru has, not only for Christian Orthodoxy, but for Christendom by and large, this idea of writing a quasi-PhD-thesis on his theological system it occurred to us, and, after we obtained the necessary spiritual blessing, we proceeded to research on scientifical basis, as objective as we have been able to, of what was similar and what was different in saint Dumitru’s theology, comparatively to Holy Fathers’ theology.
It turned out that our intuitions regarding Saint Dumitru’s huge theological stature not only have been confirmed, but they have been even hugely exceeded.
We kindly urge the reader to freely distribute the present work, on any available format, to whomsoever would be interested in.
No. Theme Pg.
1. Dedications 1
2. Acknowledgements 2
3. Abbreviations 3
4. Reading Tips / Technical Provisions 4
5. Prologue 9
6. Introduction 13
7. Research Hypotheses Confirmation Matrix 27
8. Conclusions 35
9. Further Developments 57
10. Shortcomings 59
11. Corpus Study 64
12. Acedia 65
13. Activity 68
14. Addiction-Passion 74
15. Adoption 126
16. Affects (According-to-Nature-Affects, Bodily Needs) 131
17. Alms 139
18. Angels 142
19. Apostles 154
20. Art 161
21. Ascesis 163
22. Asceticism and Mysticism 173
23. Birth Giver of God / Birth Giver of the Lord / Mother of God / Virgin Mary 178
24. Body 189
25. Charismas 217
26. Christ Jesus 225
27. Christian Dogmas 247
28. Church 257
29. Communication of the Two Natures (Godlike and Human) in Christ’s Person
272
30. Communion Amongst People, and between People and God
279
31. Creation / World / Universe / Cosmos 296
32. Cross / Crucifixion 314
33. Death 320
34. Deeds / Doing 331
35. Deification 344
36. Dialogue with God 354
37. Dispassion / Absence / Removal of Passions / Apatheia
361
38. Dwelling of God within the Human Being / Dwelling of the Human Being within / in Christ
375
39. Egotism / Selfishness 382
40. Embodiment 384
41. En-Humanity / En-Hypostatization 395
42. Epektasis 408
43. Eschatology 410
44. Evil 424
45. Evolution / Progress 444
46. Experiencing / Knowing God 458
47. Faith 466
48. Family / Marriage 476
49. Fasting 483
50. Fear 487
51. Fellow Human / Neighbor 493
52. Forgiveness 497
53. Forsaking 500
54. Freedom / Liberty 502
55. Gentleness and Humbleness 511
56. Gnosis / Gnostic 520
57. God 526
58. Good 543
59. Grace of God 555
60. Guarding the Mind 573
61. Heart 579
62. Heavens / Paradise 585
63. Hell 588
64. Heresy 599
65. Holiness 602
66. Holy Ghost 610
67. Holy Mysteries 628
68. Holy Relics 634
69. Holy Scripture 638
70. Holy Tradition 646
71. Holy Trinity 654
72. Hope 662
73. Human Being / Mankind / Humanity 668
74. Icon / Image of God 676
75. Idol 686
76. Image and Likeness of God 690
77. Immortality 697
78. Judgment 707
79. Justice and Righteousness 716
80. Kenosis 724
81. Kingdom of God / Kingdom of Heavens 735
82. Knowledge / Understanding / Wisdom / Sapience 744
83. Law 761
84. Laymen 770
85. Life 774
86. Logos 783
87. Love 788
88. Luminous Light 802
89. Mercy 810
90. Mind / Rationality 813
91. Monasticism 830
92. Motion / Movement (we have left unchecked the cells because of not being able to make any comments, due to the very high philosophical / theological manner that the theme was approached in)
864
93. Nothingness / Nothing 881
94. Numerology 883
95. Obedience 987
96. Orthodox Apologetics 901
97. Paradise 1030
98. Paradox 1033
99. Personalism 1043
100. Pleasure / Pain 1053
101. Power / Strength 1066 1066
102. Prayer to Jesus / Prayer of the Mind / Prayer of the Heart / Prayer of a Sole Thought
1071
103. Prayer 1088
104. Preaching 1103
105. Predestination / Destiny 1105
106. Priesthood 1112
107. Prophets / Prophecies 1122
108. Providence 1140
109. Repentance 1148
110. Responsibility 1168
111. Resting 1184
112. Restoration 1186
113. Resurrection 1190
114. Revelation 1205
115. Sacrifice 1219
116. Saint 1231
117. Salvation 1241
118. Science 1265
119. Seeing on God 1273
120. Senses 1288
121. Sex 1297
122. Sin 1315
123. Soul 1326
124. Space / Distance 1337
125. Spirituality / Spiritualness / Spiritualization 1344
126. Sufferance / Suffering 1354
127. Symbol 1365
128. Tears / Crying 1375
129. Temptation / Trial / Test / Trouble 1381
130. Tent 1393
131. Thoughts 1392
132. Time / History / Eternity / Ages / Eon / Era 1414
133. Transcendence 1430
134. Transparency to God 1446
135. Tropes 1458
136. Unapproachable Light / Uncreated Divine Energies 1492
137. Union with God / with Fellow Humans 1513
138. Virtue 1527
139. Vision 1536
140. Weakness 1546
141. Will 1552
142. Woman 1557
143. Wonders 1566
144. Word of God 1577
145. Work 1602
146. Worry 1619
147. Worshipping 1631
148. Bibliography 1646
149. Appendix I – Saint Dumitru the Restorer’s Biography and Bibliography 1649
150. Appendix II – Theological Florilegium on Theological Themes 1663
151. Acedia 1664
152. Activity 1668
153. Addiction / Passions 1692
154. Adoption 1913
155. Affects (According-to-Nature-Affects, Bodily Needs) 1956
156. Alms / Charity 1977
157. Angels 1988
158. Apostles 2052
159. Art 2091
160. Ascesis 2095
161. Asceticism and Mysticism 2158
162. Birth Giver of God / Birth Giver of the Lord / Mother of God / Virgin Mary
2186
163. Body 2224
164. Charismas / Gifts from the Holy Ghost 2351
165. Christ Jesus 2391
166. Christian Dogmas 2560
167. Church 2597
168. Communication of the Two Natures (Godlike and Human) in Christ’s Person 2658
169. Communion Amongst People, and between People and God 2682
170. Creation / World / Universe / Cosmos 2777
171. Cross / Crucifixion 3007
172. Death 3037
173. Deeds / Doing 3127
174. Deification / Sanctification 3168
175. Dialogue with God 3221
176. Dispassion / Absence / Removal of Passions / Apatheia
3251
177. Dwelling of God within the Human Being / Dwelling of the Human Being within / in Christ
3315
178. Egotism / Selfishness 3344
179. Embodiment 3346
180. En-Humanity / En-Hypostatization 3401
181. Epektasis 3416
182. Eschatology 3418
183. Evil 3455
184. Evolution / Progress 3544
185. Experiencing / Knowing God 3560
186. Faith 3573
187. Family / Marriage / Having Children 3647
188. Fasting 3666
189. Fear 3687
190. Fellow Human / Neighbor 3737
191. Forgiveness 3744
192. Forsaking by God 3751
193. Freedom / Liberty 3755
194. Gentleness and Humbleness 3792
195. Gnosis / Gnostic 3838
196. God 3849
197. Good 3952
198. Grace of God 3984
199. Guarding the Mind 4049
200. Heart 4077
201. Heavens / Paradise 4125
202. Hell 4133
203. Heresy 4167
204. Holiness 4171
205. Holy Ghost 4190
206. Holy Mysteries 4266
207. Holy Relics 4458
208. Holy Scripture 4461
209. Holy Tradition 4496
210. Holy Trinity 4511
211. Hope 4578
212. Human Being / Mankind / Humanity 4599
213. Icon / Image of God 4685
214. Idol 4780
215. Image and Likeness of God 4794
216. Immortality 4807
217. Judgment 4822
218. Justice and Righteousness 4870
219. Kenosis 4890
220. Kingdom of God / Kingdom of Heavens 4916
221. Knowledge / Understanding / Wisdom / Sapience 4933
222. Law 5163
223. Laymen 5195
224. Life 5208
225. Logos 5245
226. Love 5251
227. Luminous Light 5396
228. Mercy 5404
229. Mind / Rationality 5415
230. Monasticism 5668
231. Motion / Movement (we have left unchecked the cells because of not being able to make any comments, due to the very high philosophical / theological manner that the theme was approached in)
5759
232. Nothingness / Nothing 5782
233. Numerology 5784
234. Obedience / Disobedience 5800
235. Orthodox Apologetics 5827
236. Paradise / Heavens 5976
237. Paradox 5982
238. Personalism 5992
239. Pleasure / Pain 6132
240. Power / Strength 6200
241. Prayer to Jesus / Prayer of the Mind / Prayer of the Heart / Prayer of a Sole Thought
6244
242. Prayer 6300
243. Preaching 6471
244. Predestination / Destiny 6479
245. Priesthood 6491
246. Prophets / Prophecies 6544
247. Providence 6578
248. Repentance 6599
249. Responsibility 6645
250. Resting 6664
251. Restoration 6679
252. Resurrection 6683
253. Revelation 6732
254. Sacrifice 6748
255. Saint 6765
256. Salvation 6783
257. Science 6835
258. Seeing on God 6856
259. Senses (Organs of Bodily Sensing) 6922
260. Sex 6952
261. Sin 6970
262. Soul 7048
263. Space / Distance 7135
264. Spirituality / Spiritualness / Spiritualization 7147
265. Sufferance / Suffering 7172
266. Symbol 7208
267. Tears / Crying 7224
268. Temptation / Trial / Test / Trouble 7246
269. Tent 7290
270. Thoughts 7309
271. Time / History / Eternity / Ages / Eon / Era 7414
272. Transcendence 7508
273. Transparency to God 7528
274. Tropes 7563
275. Unapproachable Light / Uncreated Divine Energies 7604
276. Union with God / with Fellow Humans 7695
277. Virtue 7739
278. Vision 7808
279. Weakness 7816
280. Will 7831
281. Woman 7838
282. Wonders 7866
283. Word of God 7879
284. Work 7915
285. Worry / Worries / Worried 7962
286. Worshipping / Worship / Worshipped 7995
Starting from today, we reckon as finished the elaboration of the present dictionary, because we have been no longer encountering new terms, and the complicated expressions have been occurring very rarely. We reckon that, the translators have, in the present dictionary, the sufficient means for accomplishing satisfactory translations. The elaboration of the present dictionary has been taking place between the years: 2012-2023 (on a daily basis, with only some short and totally justified recesses, while working on the theses for our two PhDs, and while being sick).