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    STUDIA THEOLOGIA%20GRAECO-CATHOLICA%20VARADIENSIS - Issue no. 1-2 / 2015  
         
  Article:   NICOLAE CABASILA’S MARIAN DOCTRINE / DOCTRINA MARIANĂ A LUI NICOLAE CABASILA.

Authors:  BOGDAN VASILE BUDA.
 
       
         
  Abstract:  Nicolae Cabasila’s Marian doctrine. Nicolae Cabasila is an authentic example of humanist and theologian who, despite the fact he lived during XIVth century and he was contemporary with Symeon the New Theologian, he fascinates us even to this day with the “profundity of his mysticism” that could be considered ”forever abreast with the time”, being inspired by the grace of Holy Spirit. If the IVth century can be theologically considered the “Christological cycle”, as O. Clement puts it, by the “Trinitarian theology”, XIVth century has a corresponding importance by the palamite theology which, in V. Lossky’s thought, represents a real and unique “pneumatological cycle” . In this context of theological, but also cultural, philosophical and literary revival and florescence, Nicolae Cabasila will come to light. Although he was a Greek oriental theologian, he will be rediscovered also by the East as early as the Council of Trent. The article will bring forward a few guiding lines about the author’s life and works followed by detailing his position in the context of Byzantine Hesychasm. The final part will deal with Cabasila’s Mariology synthetically, a subject that shows a great theological richness and profundity. For that matter, a popular Eastern researcher of his work stated: “No one in the Byzantine Empire or anywhere else, at least in that era, has spoken more highly about the God-bearer as Cabasila”.

Key words: Humanism, Hesychasm, Palamism, synergy, Mariology
 
         
     
         
         
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