Bilingual edition; translation into Romanian by Cristian Bejan; introduction, chronology, notes and appendices by Dragos Mirsanu

In the context of the ‘Great Invasions’ at the end of Antiquity, religious otherness arguably played an important role in the relations between the Romans and the ‘barbarians’. Converted in the late fourth and the fifth centuries to a form of Late, ‘Gothic’ Arianism, these migratory, then settled, populations, for a long time willingly preserved their religious distinctiveness from the Orthodox Christian Romanitas. This article asks whether

his paper asks whether Justinian's attempt to recover the West during the sixth century was, and to what extent, an orthodox “holy war”. It is beyond a doubt that the decision to go to war with the Arian Vandals in Africa placed high value on the “otherness of faith” as diplomatic currency. While we cannot credit, in the strictest sense, the Arianism of the barbarians as the (main) motive for the launch of the Roman Reconquista, I will argue

This essay argues for the correct appreciation of the complex multicultural background in the Book of Acts. The case study is the conversion of Saul in Acts. 9: 1-19.

"Epiphanius, 'Ancoratus' and the Otherness of Faith" discusses the life and works of bishop Epiphanius of Salamis (4th c.) and the main ideas in his work 'Ancoratus'. It represents pp. 17-38 of the bilingual edition of Epiphanius of Salamis' 'Ancoratus' (Iasi, Polirom Publishing House, 2007)

'Origen and his Legacy in Late Antiquity' - is an extensive chronological table made in a scholarly manner. It represents pp. 13-41 of the bilingual edition of Origen's Commentary on the Book of Genesis (Iasi, Polirom Publishing House)

An essay on the first edition of Peter Mogila' Orthodox Confession (17c.). Includes the little known story of publication and a determination of the correct details of publication: Amsterdam and the year 1666 (not 1667).

The present essay offers a survey of the more important activities of the Romanian Orthodox Church in recent years, both on the national and the international level. Includes relation to politics, civil society, and media.

In the study of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, there has been a lot of writing about the Germanic tribes and kingdoms in the Roman Empire, especially about the creation of their ethnic identities, but the religious aspect of the process has been neglected. In an age when 'ethnicity' is understood for Late Antiquity as contextually everchanging, one cannot walk on confortable paths anylonger. What was seen as particularly antagonistic,

In his Prefatio to Novella 6 (535), Justinian celebrated the achievement of what had been a development for more than two centuries: a Christian ideological system rooted in the Roman and Hellenistic past, binding the priesthood and the secular ruler for the benefit of the oikoumene/ecclesia. The strength of the empire was seen as necessarily supported by the unity of one exclusive faith, which required a perfect symphony between the secular arm