Papers by florin crismareanu
In this paper, structured in two sections, I intend to examine a meaning of Scripture that I cons... more In this paper, structured in two sections, I intend to examine a meaning of Scripture that I consider to be forgotten. The context that led to this situation was most likely due to the fact that we are dealing with an unclassifiable meaning, which initially was not captured by the classical doctrine of the four interpretations (literal, allegorical, moral, anagogical) and moreover later, following Schleiermacher's general hermeneutics (1768-1834) that continues to dominate the exegetical framework today, could hardly have been supported, even if one had so wished. In the early centuries of Christianity, the Alexandrian exegetes suggested that there was a deeper meaning to Scripture which they did not wish to divulge (for example, we find the idea in Origen of Alexandria, Didymus the Blind, Evagrius Ponticus et al). I believe that this meaning can be discovered, to a certain extent, if one considers an exemplary statement found in the Expositio orationes dominicae of Maximus the Confessor (580-662): "In fact, the Word of God made flesh teaches theology in that in Himself he reveals the Father and the Holy Spirit". This insight will help us to point out that biblical interpretation should never be an exclusively human activity, but a synergistic, divine-human work.
In this article I intend to capture the flexions of the concept of "first principle" in Aristotle... more In this article I intend to capture the flexions of the concept of "first principle" in Aristotle's posterity, until R. Descartes, insisting only on some moments that I consider important in this history: Aristotle, Neoplatonists [Plotinus, for example], Dionysius Areopagite, scholastics [Duns Scotus, for example] and R. Descartes. After this short historical excursion, I will try to highlight the fact that what the French philosopher calls cogito is close, from a functional point of view, at least, to the first Neoplatonic principle, i.e. it is a principle that generates knowledge, but not in an ontological paradigm, as it happens in the case of Neoplatonists, but in a gnoseological acceptance.
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Classica et Christiana, 2021
¿Compañero de viaje o cenobita? [Synodita: fellow traveler or cenobite?] / 11 Marianne BÉRAUD, Le... more ¿Compañero de viaje o cenobita? [Synodita: fellow traveler or cenobite?] / 11 Marianne BÉRAUD, Les uicarii dans la parénétique tardo-antique : des icônes morales de la doulologie chrétienne [The Vicarii in paranoetic preaching in Late Antiquity: moral icons for the Christian doulologia] / 33 Claudio César CALABRESE, Ethel JUNCO, La teología neoplatónica en De doctrina Christiana. Descubrir y comunicar a Dios en la exégesis [The neoplatonic theology in De doctrina christiana. Discover and communicate God in exegesis] / 47 Maria Carolina CAMPONE, "Trichora sub altaria": l'altare tricoro della basilica nova di Cimitile. Problemi esegetici ed evidenze lessicali nella ricostruzione dell'abside paoliniana ["Trichora sub altaria": the tricor altar in the basilica nova in Cimitile. Exegetical problems and lexical evidence in the reconstruction of the paolinian apsis] / 67 Saverio CARILLO, All'ombra del Campanile, memoria del Paradiso. Luoghi e interpretazione secolare di 'componenti' liturgici del paesaggio [In the shadow of the bell tower, memory of Paradise. Places and secular interpretation of liturgical 'components' of the landscape] / 83 Noelia CASES MORA, Lo vegetal y lo divino: prodigios, poder y propaganda en el Imperio romano [Vegetation and divinity: prodigies, power and propaganda in the Roman Empire] / 101 * Cu excepţia celor din L'Année Philologique şi L'Année Épigraphique / Escluse quelle segnalate da L'Année Philologique e L'Année Épigraphique.
Catherine Nixey, Epoca întunecării. Cum a distrus creștinismul lumea clasică
Teologie şi viaţă, 2019
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Classica et Christiana, 2023
IN HONOREM PROFESSORIS DOMINICI LASSANDRO LAUDATIO Vir magnae eruditionis, litterarum Latinarum p... more IN HONOREM PROFESSORIS DOMINICI LASSANDRO LAUDATIO Vir magnae eruditionis, litterarum Latinarum peritissimus, eminentissimus philologus, Professor Dominicus Lassandrus varietate scientificarum investigationum et suis conatibus ad studiorum classicorum propagationem egregium nomen adeptus est. Plurimos laboris annos laudabilem professionalem cursum percurrit, maxima cum dexteritate scripta auctorum Latinorum ab antiquis temporibus usque ad finem antiquitatis scrutans et disertissima studia exegetica, critica et historica perficiens. Panegyricos Latinos industriose recognovit ac critice edidit, loca obscura in luce ferens, nec non Ciceronis tractatus philosophicos (De natura deorum, De senectute, De amicitia) commentatus est atque Italice interpretatus. Multorum colloquiorum scientificorum internationalium particeps fuit, fructum sui laboris et ingenii omnibus expertis cognoscentibus. Item, homo litteratus, Professor Dominicus Lassandrus collectiones editoriales Bibliotheca tardoantica et Bibliotheca classicae traditionis industriosissime et hodie dirigit, nec non collegio scientifico periodicorum Invigilata Lucernis et Classica & Christiana inest. Praeterea, maxime memorandus est suus longinquus cursus institutionalis. Professore praeside, Barensis Universitatis "Aldo Moro" Dipartimentum Studiorum Classicorum et Christianorum et postea Centrum interdipartimentale traditionis studiorum valde floruerunt. Excellens magister, diligenter vigilans ad progressum classicorum studiorum in Italia, suis alumnis altissimam academicam educationem praebuit. Non modo sua eruditio, sed etiam sui animi virtutes perspectissimae sunt: liberalitas et benevolentia erga studentes, affabilitas erga collegas, mansuetudo erga omnes. Pro suis valentibus meritis ad incrementum studii litterarum antiquitatis, pro suo praestantissimo scientifico labore, nec non pro egregia collaboratione cum studiosis Universitatis Iassiensis, Professori Dominico Lassandro sincerum donum praebemus. SUMAR / INDICE / CONTENTS SIGLE ŞI ABREVIERI -SIGLE E ABBREVIAZIONI / 301 *** STUDII -STUDI / 303 Nicola BIFFI, Gli Italioti di Strabone (nota a 9, 3, 7 C 420) [The Italiots of Strabo (note to 9, 3, 7 C 420)] / 303 Antonella BRUZZONE, In te mundi amor consonat. Aezio paradigma di virtù in Merobaude [In te mundi amor consonat. Aetius paradigm of virtues in Merobaudes] / 319 Maria Carolina CAMPONE, «Vidisti te». Aeternitas imperii e omen annorum nella politica costantiniana [«Vidisti te». Aeternitas imperii and omen annorum in Constantinian politics] / 343 Saverio CARILLO, La casa di Dio tra le case degli uomini. Lo spazio sacro come paesaggio culturale [The house of God among the houses of men. The sacred space as a cultural landscape] / 363 Florin CRÎȘMĂREANU, Creație, mișcare, îndumnezeire. Perspective metafizico-teologice asupra libertății în primele secole ale creștinismului [Creation, movement, deification. Metaphysical-theological perspectives on freedom in the first centuries of Christianity] / 381 Fabrizio FERACO, Un'umiliante indigenza: nota testuale ed esegetica ad Ammiano, 14, 6, 13 [A humbling poverty: textual and exegetic note about Ammianus, 14, 6, 13] / 399 Alessandro LAGIOIA, Dal pulpito viene la dedica: Leone, Acceptus e l'iscrizione dell'ambone di Monte Sant'Angelo [The Pulpit speaks from the pulpit: Leo, Acceptus, and the inscription on the pulpit of the Sanctuary of Monte Sant'Angelo] / 409 * Cu excepţia celor din L'Année Philologique şi L'Année Épigraphique / Escluse quelle segnalate da L'Année Philologique e L'Année Épigraphique.
The Relevance of the Distinction between Theologia and Oeconomia for the Condemnations of 1241/ 4. Continuities and Intermissions
Philobiblon, Jul 3, 2023
Suárez’s Influence on Descartes: The Case of Epistle cdxviii (at iv 348–350)
Philobiblon, 2017
Anastasis, May 29, 2022
in Dungalus 'Epistola de duplici solis eclipsi anno 810' Abstract: In the lines below, in additio... more in Dungalus 'Epistola de duplici solis eclipsi anno 810' Abstract: In the lines below, in addition to the cultural and diplomatic exchanges that took place during the Carolingian period, between the Byzantines and the Latins, I will try to identify the real name of the person who stood behind the one designated by Dungalus, at the beginning of Epistola de duplici solis eclipsi anno 810, as Constantinopolitanus episcopus.
Starting from the statement of the Catholic theologian E. Przywara who saw in S. Kierkegaard the ... more Starting from the statement of the Catholic theologian E. Przywara who saw in S. Kierkegaard the modern thinker with a certain perspective on the doctrine analogia entis, I have tried to identify in the writings of the Danish philosopher arguments on which this "perspective" can find its fundament. I did not manage to find in his writings anything but counterarguments that disaffirm the thesis supported by Przywara, for example: "God and man are two qualities between which an infinite difference interposes" (The Sickness Unto Death). The example is not a singular one, this idea being found in almost all of his texts. Reason for which I tend to believe that in the writings of the Danish philosopher we can rather speak of a special type of analogy, a analogia relationis, understood as a relationship, a report, not with the being, attributed univocally or by means of analogy, to man and to God, but with Christ.
Analogie et anagogie dans les écrits de Maxime le Confesseur. Essai sur une « herméneutique eucharistique »
L'influence de F. Suárez sur R. Descartes: le cas de la "Lettre CDXVIII" (AT, IV, 348-350)
Théologie et métaphysique chez Francisco Suarez
Editions universitaires europeennes eBooks, Nov 29, 2011
Je ne crois pas qu’il existe un lieu neutre a partir duquel nous construisons l’argumentation. Ch... more Je ne crois pas qu’il existe un lieu neutre a partir duquel nous construisons l’argumentation. Chaque auteur argumente une these dans un certain contexte, dans une certaine perspective. Pour chaque auteur il y a une tradition, un lieu a partir duquel il parle. Les pages de ce livre temoignent le lieu ou je me place. Le contexte de Francisco Suarez etait autre. Mon intention est de rencontrer le plus souvent le contexte dans lequel le jesuite s’est manifeste. C’est la raison pour laquelle je crois que les differentes lectures de F. Suarez sont complementaires: les interpretations « canoniques » [J.-F. Courtine, E. Gilson, etc.] sont pertinentes, mais peut-etre insuffisantes. Par exemple, lire F. Suarez dans une perspective heideggerienne, cela est legitime, mais, a mon avis, cela n’est pas denue de risques de reduction. Dans le present volume je voudrais montrer simplement ce qu’on gagne et ce qu’on perd a partir du « moment Francisco Suarez ».
Most authors think that De docta ignorantia is an epistemological work. In this article I attempt... more Most authors think that De docta ignorantia is an epistemological work. In this article I attempt to prove that this book is also an ontological work and to reveal that Nicholas of Cusa is one of the few western authors who, assuming the calcedonian dogma, reject the thesis of analogia entis. For the cardinal Nicholas of Cusa any other mediator besides Jesus Christ is a false and misleading one.
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Classica et Christiana
IN HONOREM PROFESSORIS DOMINICI LASSANDRO LAUDATIO Vir magnae eruditionis, litterarum Latinarum p... more IN HONOREM PROFESSORIS DOMINICI LASSANDRO LAUDATIO Vir magnae eruditionis, litterarum Latinarum peritissimus, eminentissimus philologus, Professor Dominicus Lassandrus varietate scientificarum investigationum et suis conatibus ad studiorum classicorum propagationem egregium nomen adeptus est. Plurimos laboris annos laudabilem professionalem cursum percurrit, maxima cum dexteritate scripta auctorum Latinorum ab antiquis temporibus usque ad finem antiquitatis scrutans et disertissima studia exegetica, critica et historica perficiens. Panegyricos Latinos industriose recognovit ac critice edidit, loca obscura in luce ferens, nec non Ciceronis tractatus philosophicos (De natura deorum, De senectute, De amicitia) commentatus est atque Italice interpretatus. Multorum colloquiorum scientificorum internationalium particeps fuit, fructum sui laboris et ingenii omnibus expertis cognoscentibus. Item, homo litteratus, Professor Dominicus Lassandrus collectiones editoriales Bibliotheca tardoantica et Bibliotheca classicae traditionis industriosissime et hodie dirigit, nec non collegio scientifico periodicorum Invigilata Lucernis et Classica & Christiana inest. Praeterea, maxime memorandus est suus longinquus cursus institutionalis. Professore praeside, Barensis Universitatis "Aldo Moro" Dipartimentum Studiorum Classicorum et Christianorum et postea Centrum interdipartimentale traditionis studiorum valde floruerunt. Excellens magister, diligenter vigilans ad progressum classicorum studiorum in Italia, suis alumnis altissimam academicam educationem praebuit. Non modo sua eruditio, sed etiam sui animi virtutes perspectissimae sunt: liberalitas et benevolentia erga studentes, affabilitas erga collegas, mansuetudo erga omnes. Pro suis valentibus meritis ad incrementum studii litterarum antiquitatis, pro suo praestantissimo scientifico labore, nec non pro egregia collaboratione cum studiosis Universitatis Iassiensis, Professori Dominico Lassandro sincerum donum praebemus. SUMAR / INDICE / CONTENTS SIGLE ŞI ABREVIERI -SIGLE E ABBREVIAZIONI / 301 *** STUDII -STUDI / 303 Nicola BIFFI, Gli Italioti di Strabone (nota a 9, 3, 7 C 420) [The Italiots of Strabo (note to 9, 3, 7 C 420)] / 303 Antonella BRUZZONE, In te mundi amor consonat. Aezio paradigma di virtù in Merobaude [In te mundi amor consonat. Aetius paradigm of virtues in Merobaudes] / 319 Maria Carolina CAMPONE, «Vidisti te». Aeternitas imperii e omen annorum nella politica costantiniana [«Vidisti te». Aeternitas imperii and omen annorum in Constantinian politics] / 343 Saverio CARILLO, La casa di Dio tra le case degli uomini. Lo spazio sacro come paesaggio culturale [The house of God among the houses of men. The sacred space as a cultural landscape] / 363 Florin CRÎȘMĂREANU, Creație, mișcare, îndumnezeire. Perspective metafizico-teologice asupra libertății în primele secole ale creștinismului [Creation, movement, deification. Metaphysical-theological perspectives on freedom in the first centuries of Christianity] / 381 Fabrizio FERACO, Un'umiliante indigenza: nota testuale ed esegetica ad Ammiano, 14, 6, 13 [A humbling poverty: textual and exegetic note about Ammianus, 14, 6, 13] / 399 Alessandro LAGIOIA, Dal pulpito viene la dedica: Leone, Acceptus e l'iscrizione dell'ambone di Monte Sant'Angelo [The Pulpit speaks from the pulpit: Leo, Acceptus, and the inscription on the pulpit of the Sanctuary of Monte Sant'Angelo] / 409 * Cu excepţia celor din L'Année Philologique şi L'Année Épigraphique / Escluse quelle segnalate da L'Année Philologique e L'Année Épigraphique.
Anastasis. Research in Medieval Culture and Art
in Dungalus 'Epistola de duplici solis eclipsi anno 810' Abstract: In the lines below, in additio... more in Dungalus 'Epistola de duplici solis eclipsi anno 810' Abstract: In the lines below, in addition to the cultural and diplomatic exchanges that took place during the Carolingian period, between the Byzantines and the Latins, I will try to identify the real name of the person who stood behind the one designated by Dungalus, at the beginning of Epistola de duplici solis eclipsi anno 810, as Constantinopolitanus episcopus.
Dionisie AREOPAGITUL, Despre numele divine. Teologia mistică
Teologie şi viaţă, 2019
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Classica et Christiana, 2021
¿Compañero de viaje o cenobita? [Synodita: fellow traveler or cenobite?] / 11 Marianne BÉRAUD, Le... more ¿Compañero de viaje o cenobita? [Synodita: fellow traveler or cenobite?] / 11 Marianne BÉRAUD, Les uicarii dans la parénétique tardo-antique : des icônes morales de la doulologie chrétienne [The Vicarii in paranoetic preaching in Late Antiquity: moral icons for the Christian doulologia] / 33 Claudio César CALABRESE, Ethel JUNCO, La teología neoplatónica en De doctrina Christiana. Descubrir y comunicar a Dios en la exégesis [The neoplatonic theology in De doctrina christiana. Discover and communicate God in exegesis] / 47 Maria Carolina CAMPONE, "Trichora sub altaria": l'altare tricoro della basilica nova di Cimitile. Problemi esegetici ed evidenze lessicali nella ricostruzione dell'abside paoliniana ["Trichora sub altaria": the tricor altar in the basilica nova in Cimitile. Exegetical problems and lexical evidence in the reconstruction of the paolinian apsis] / 67 Saverio CARILLO, All'ombra del Campanile, memoria del Paradiso. Luoghi e interpretazione secolare di 'componenti' liturgici del paesaggio [In the shadow of the bell tower, memory of Paradise. Places and secular interpretation of liturgical 'components' of the landscape] / 83 Noelia CASES MORA, Lo vegetal y lo divino: prodigios, poder y propaganda en el Imperio romano [Vegetation and divinity: prodigies, power and propaganda in the Roman Empire] / 101 * Cu excepţia celor din L'Année Philologique şi L'Année Épigraphique / Escluse quelle segnalate da L'Année Philologique e L'Année Épigraphique.
In this study I intend to briefly analyze the reception of Saint Maximus the Confessor’s texts (5... more In this study I intend to briefly analyze the reception of Saint Maximus the Confessor’s texts (580–662) in the Romanian culture. I will particularly take into consideration Maximus’ text Capita theologica et oecomonica, that benefits of two translations in Romanian (made by D. Stăniloae and W.A. Prager). I tend to believe that the different options of translation estrange Maximus’ text from the tradition from which it comes. Without certain clarifications, the ambiguity increases around the difficult patristic text. The analysis below intends to explain, as far as possible, the preliminary data, the presuppositions which were the basis of these translations.
Anastasis. Research in Medieval Culture and Art, 2019
The idea of apophatism reaches Eriugena, without any doubt, through the Dionysian writings. But, ... more The idea of apophatism reaches Eriugena, without any doubt, through the Dionysian writings. But, in the process of knowing God, does the Irish thinker stop only at this classical distinction between cataphatic and apophatic theology? Could the negative moment, privileged by Eriugena also, exhaust the whole process of knowledge? In my opinion, and this I will try to argue in the lines below, Eriugena goes beyond this distinction when encountering the Maximian writings. In the opinion of some exegetes (like L. Thunberg for example), Maximus the Confessor is even more radical regarding the problem of apophatism than Dionysius. On the other hand, "Maxime a également communique à Jean Scot son réalisme christologique" (É. Jeauneau). Where we want to argue that if Eriugena's writings are compared to the neoplatonic tradition, reversio is nothing but deificatio, and this return is made in and through Christ, the New Adam, who, unlike the first Adam, by whose fault the whole nature has been driven out of paradise, brings together, and makes nature whole again: "In primo universa natura de felicitate paradisi est expulsa, in secundo in eandem felicitatem est revocata et restituta" (Periphyseon, IV, 20). Christ alone assumes and redeems the whole human nature: "totam humanam naturam quam totam accepit, totam in seipso et in toto humano genere totam salvavit" (ibidem, V, 25). After all, the divine nature of the Word of God remains inaccessible to all creation, and only through Incarnation does God descend to men "incarnatum vero quadammodo descendens, mirabili quadam theophania" (ibidem, V, 25) so that they may ascend to God ("Descendit enim verbum in hominem ut, per ipsum, ascenderet homo in deum" -Commentaire sur l'Evangile de Jean (SC 180, p. 100).
Anastasis, May 30, 2019
The idea of apophatism reaches Eriugena, without any doubt, through the Dionysian writings. But, ... more The idea of apophatism reaches Eriugena, without any doubt, through the Dionysian writings. But, in the process of knowing God, does the Irish thinker stop only at this classical distinction between cataphatic and apophatic theology? Could the negative moment, privileged by Eriugena also, exhaust the whole process of knowledge? In my opinion, and this I will try to argue in the lines below, Eriugena goes beyond this distinction when encountering the Maximian writings. In the opinion of some exegetes (like L. Thunberg for example), Maximus the Confessor is even more radical regarding the problem of apophatism than Dionysius. On the other hand, "Maxime a également communique à Jean Scot son réalisme christologique" (É. Jeauneau). Where we want to argue that if Eriugena's writings are compared to the neoplatonic tradition, reversio is nothing but deificatio, and this return is made in and through Christ, the New Adam, who, unlike the first Adam, by whose fault the whole nature has been driven out of paradise, brings together, and makes nature whole again: "In primo universa natura de felicitate paradisi est expulsa, in secundo in eandem felicitatem est revocata et restituta" (Periphyseon, IV, 20). Christ alone assumes and redeems the whole human nature: "totam humanam naturam quam totam accepit, totam in seipso et in toto humano genere totam salvavit" (ibidem, V, 25). After all, the divine nature of the Word of God remains inaccessible to all creation, and only through Incarnation does God descend to men "incarnatum vero quadammodo descendens, mirabili quadam theophania" (ibidem, V, 25) so that they may ascend to God ("Descendit enim verbum in hominem ut, per ipsum, ascenderet homo in deum" -Commentaire sur l'Evangile de Jean (SC 180, p. 100).
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