The STUDIA UNIVERSITATIS BABEŞ-BOLYAI issue article summary

The summary of the selected article appears at the bottom of the page. In order to get back to the contents of the issue this article belongs to you have to access the link from the title. In order to see all the articles of the archive which have as author/co-author one of the authors mentioned below, you have to access the link from the author's name.

 
       
         
    STUDIA THEOLOGIA%20ORTHODOXA - Issue no. 2 / 2019  
         
  Article:   UNDERSTANDING OUR FATHER IN THE CONTEXT OF HUMAN PERFECTION PREACHED IN THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT, ACCORDING TO ST. GREGORY OF NYSSA’S HOMILIES ON THE LORD’S PRAYER.

Authors:  ADRIAN PODARU.
 
       
         
  Abstract:  
DOI: 10.24193/subbto.2019.2.05

Published Online: 2019-12-30
Published Print: 2019-12-30
pp. 63-74
VIEW PDF: FULL PDF

ABSTRACT: It is not by chance that the prayer Our Father is recommended by Jesus Christ during the so-called Sermon on the Mount. All that has been said in this Sermon aimed at perfection: “Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect” (Matt. 5, 48). Viewed in this light, the Lord’s prayer is also the prayer which is properly uttered only in a state of perfection, and even if it may be used as a mean to achieve perfection, nevertheless it is perfectly uttered only in a state of perfection; therefore, in a way, the Lord’s prayer is the aim of the Christian life. This is the view of St. Gregory of Nyssa and this is what this article tries to argue by using the texts of this Cappadocian Father.

Key words: Lord’s prayer, St. Gregory of Nyssa, asceticism, perfection, parrhesia, the perfect prayer
 
         
     
         
         
      Back to previous page