Din corespondenţa arhimandritului Iuliu Scriban cu arhiereul Arsenie Stadniţki păstrată la Moscova

Aleksandr STYKALIN

Ioan-Augustin GURIŢĂ

DOI: 10.47743/asui-2021-0023

Abstract: Iuliu Scriban was one of the most important Romanian theologians of the first half of the twentieth century, with an impressive publishing activity. He also corresponded, throughout his life, with many personalities of the Church of the time, both in the country and especially abroad. One of those with whom he exchanged a few letters was Arsenie Stadnitsky, one of the most learned hierarchs of the Russian Church of the first four decades of the twentieth century. We publish six letters found in the State Archives of the Russian Federation sent by Iuliu Scriban, between August 1907 and December 1910, during his term in Bucharest, Baden-Badsk, Baden-Stadt respectively in Novgorod. In these epistles the common interest of the two in the great problems of the Christian world, in the events that took place in the Orthodox, Catholic and Protestant spaces, in the disturbances in the Romanian Orthodox Church or in the Russian Orthodox Church, etc., is very well observed. From the writings of the young archimandrite, it is clear what the „reading grid” theologians in the West, Romania and Russia had, what they were interested in, how they were preparing to fight the currents that could harm Orthodoxy and how they thought it could meet the challenges facing people of the Church.

Keywords: Romanian Orthodox Church; Russian Orthodox Church; Catholic Church; Romanian theologians; Tsarist Russia.