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Studies of universal church history - Constantin Claudiu Cotan

Studies of universal church history - Constantin Claudiu Cotan

Name: Studies of universal church history - Constantin Claudiu Cotan
Brand: Editura Universitara
SKU: 9786062817459
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Publisher: Editura Universitara

Author: Constantin Claudiu Cotan

Edition: I

Pages: 298

Publisher year: 2023

ISBN: 978-606-28-1745-9

DOI: 10.5682/9786062817459

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History is a story about people, with people. Only to us God left history so that we can learn from it. God only allowed us to have a past and to be aware of it. We are left by God to investigate the past times, to understand them and not to commit the same mistakes as our ancestors. Unfortunately, man is, as in the past, dominated by the same sins and commits the same mistakes. Either five hundred years ago, or today, man proves that, on his way through history, he is still far from God. In the depths of his soul, he is dominated by the same passions and commits the same horrors as in the past, only colored in the colors of modernity and with more cynicism. I sought, through a few pages of history and theology, to enter into a past that we must not forget, from which we can learn by changing ourselves in the depths of the soul through the sensitive words of some people who loved him God and they served him with devotion. They shared their lives with their peers with humility, knowing how beautiful it is to be together with your friends before God.

Studies of universal church history - Constantin Claudiu Cotan
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Constantin Claudiu Cotan

Preface / 7

The activity of the military clergy during the years of the Great War / 11

Holy Friday the Ninth history of a church in Bucharest / 44

A brief history of the Russian Orthodox Church / 60

The church life of the Orthodox Romanians in America / 115

The Orthodox Church in Oltenia during the Austrian rule, 1718 1738 / 134

Pages from the memoirs of the Aromanian mayor George P. Gheorghiu / 146

The State and the Orthodox Church in Romanian history / 177

Church art and architecture from the Diocese of Buzău / 190

Gerasim, a disciple of Saint Gregory Sinait / 208

Treasury of the Romanian Orthodox Church in Moscow / 223

From Bitolia to Canaria. Memoirs of the Aromanian George P. Gheorghiu / 247

A great Greek enlightener, Evghenios Voulgaris / 271

History does not only mean the story of some peoples, the history of a world, but it is also the story of some people who, through their worth, marked the lives of other people and did things worth talking about. Probably for us today, when we are told about events that happened several hundred years ago, it seems to us that they are such distant times that we consider them not worth having as a reference point. But let's not forget that for the life of the Church, for the history of Christianity, the 14th century meant a great leap in the knowledge of God through the ascetic practice of hesychia. The monks and not only them took the hard road of fasting, prayer and hardship to get closer to the uncreated light of Tabor. But not only these events, but also some that happened two centuries ago, seem foreign to our lives. When we talk about metropolitans, hierarchs, priests and monks full of zeal for the Church and their people, they appear to us as foreigners, living in some times that we do not find interesting because they do not resemble our days at all.
If we are to remember the past, we will find that some of us lived to hear from the mouths of our grandparents the stories from the time of the great wars that bloodied the last century. Personally, I still hear the voice of my grandfather telling me about the horrors he experienced during the years of the Second World War. My wife's grandfather was also a participant in the First World War and as a Transylvanian and citizen of Austria-Hungary he fought on the fronts of the great empire in Italy. How many were not forced by the wickedness of the times to take the path of wandering in search of a better life. These brave people remained at least in the consciousness of their close ones, their children and relatives, if not they also marked the lives of others through deeds and words. My generation knew the communist dictatorship even in the years when it was intellectually formed, it went through the revolution and the troubled years that followed it, it enjoyed the integration into the European family of democratic peoples that brought many good things but embraced us in the struggle for a living better and a more beautiful place. We suffered for the dead during the two years of the epidemic, and we now weep for those who die in the wars. There are times that I didn't think it was possible for humanity to live anymore. It's as if they were tragedies from ancient times colored in the colors of modernity, but just as ugly and dramatic. With all the progress and with all the wisdom of the world, it seems that things remain that do not change, probably because man does not become spiritual, but remains caught up in the same passions and sins.
The progress of mankind is huge, and in recent years it seems to us that we are living in a movie full of dynamism in which we expect to be part of a discovery every day that will amaze us but also unsettle us. We feel more and more deeply that it is beyond our power to comprehend, and therefore we fear the multitude of changes. We live in times of uncertainty, nothing is predictable, one event can change our entire life path. Can you tell your children the best path to take in life? Surely the advice you give will refer to the admonition to be good people, useful and loving to others and God, but you will look at them thinking that you do not know what will await them in life, what they will have to go through and to endure. I pray to God that they will not go through greater trials than my generation has gone through. But surely the children of today will know much different times than the ones I lived through, with other challenges and other hardships. However, I am sure that the new generations will go through history just as the previous generations have gone through, with successes and failures, but achieving wonderful things, perhaps more beautiful than those accomplished by mankind so far.
The present volume presents some studies, the result of some research from the past years, with themes related to the personality of some people of God who put their whole lives in the service of their fellow men. We sought to preserve a series of original accounts, life stories, charged with a special sensibility that introduce us to wonderful stories that take us to a past world that, however, cries out not to be forgotten.

Rev. Prof. Univ. Dr. Constantin Claudiu Cotan,
Bucharest, 2023

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