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    STUDIA THEOLOGIA%20GRAECO-CATHOLICA%20VARADIENSIS - Issue no. 1-2 / 2011  
         
  Article:   THE RELIGIOUS PRINCIPLES IN THE THINKING OF IOAN RATIU / I PRINCIPI DELLA RELIGIONE NEL PENSIERO DI IOAN RAŢIU / PRINCIPIILE RELIGIEI ÎN GÂNDIREA LUI IOAN RAŢIU.

Authors:  CRISTIAN BARTA. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  The Religious Principles in the Thinking of Ioan Ratiu. Ioan Ratiu was one of the most important canonist of the second half of the 19th century and also the author of two books of religion for the pupils of the Greek-Catholic High-School of Blaj: The Main Principles of Christian Religion (1872) and The Special or the Dogmatic Principles of the Christian Religion (1872). This paper intends to present these two books, offering a general description, an analysis regarding the originality of the theological thinking and its sources. They wish to reveal the Catholic, universal dimension as well the local one, the Oriental one, and we are going to do an approach work of the theological content, especially of the ecclesiological section. In this purpose we will keep the theological language of the manuscript. The works of Ioan Ratiu, even if they are an introduction, they show us the way the fundamental theological and the dogmatic were seen in the Romanian Greek-Catholic Church, during the years of the 1st Council of Vatican. In this way, we may see the birth of the fundamental theology in this Church, the development of the ecclesiology and the good level of the theological and cultural preparation of pupils in the confessional High-School of Blaj.

Keywords: theology, dogmatics, fundamental, Romanian Greek-catholic, textbook, originality, theological language, catholic faith, Greek tradition, confessional identity. 		 
         
     
         
         
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