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Contemporary society, marked by axiological instability, cultural conformity and growing social pressures, needs a repositioning on the moral values axis, in which character education is an essential factor of moral and personal resilience of the young people of generations Z and Alpha, born in the era of digital technology, high-speed internet, artificial intelligence, digital assistants and augmented reality. The article analyzes the formative role of character in young people's ability to resist the destructive...

The most beautiful, but also the most complicated period in a person’s life is adolescence, because at this age, a series of transformations take place, making the transition from childhood to adulthood. Most teenagers, if they do not have the right guidance in life, can get lost in the thicket of emancipatory opportunities of today’s world, which give them the illusion of freedom, independence and personal autonomy in all aspects of life. A decisive role for the adolescent’s integrative education has always...

The policy imposed by the authorities in Romania from the moment of transitioning to the communist regime (1947), followed the Soviet model, which was based on the materialist-atheist ideology, however adapted to Romanian society. The repercussions were multiple, among them including the suppression of free expression of religious sentiment. In this context were most of the cults in Romania, among which the Orthodox Church. Predominant in Romania, this Church suffered greatly from the communist regime, which perse...

Born in 1934 and moved to the Lord in 1982, Father Seraphim Rose carried out his activity against the background of an increasingly fluid world, marked by ideological changes, technological advances and cultural transformations. As a fervent scholar, translator, and ardent monk, Father Seraphim Rose navigated the complexities of modernity, while, passionately advocating for the eternal truths, embedded in Orthodoxy. The text is divided into three sections, each exploring a different aspect of the era. The first se...

Pedagogical science, through the materialist covering that is imposed on it lately, has distanced itself from the spiritual needs of man. Despite this fact, the influence and importance of Christian values remain eminently valid and current. Christianity and especially Orthodoxy, through their entire content based on the teachings of Lord Jesus Christ, the Pedagogue par excellence, continue to inspire educational ideas, mentality, and pedagogical thinking. Christian pedagogy imposes itself as a necessity in todayв...

This study investigates the teachings of Saint Porphyrios the Kafsokalivite on how the appreciation of beauty in creation can lead believers closer to God. Despite his lack of formal theological training, Saint Porphyrios offered profound experiential insights into divine beauty manifest in nature, art, and music. He passionately argued that the beauty surrounding us is a reflection of divine grace, urging believers to perceive these manifestations as direct links to the Creator. Saint Porphyrios highlighted the s...

Children’s education, and, by extension, the education of the young, represents a permanently topical problem in an age of conflicts and overturning of the value axis. For this reason, old pedagogical principles and elements are being made actual again, preserving their content, verified through the experience of many generations. Such an element is also the inner silence, acquired through prayer, and which represents a spiritual state specific of the Christian way of living and, consequently, an element specifi...

The perspective of the young person on the horizontal and vertical of his existence is given by the education taking into account the perennial values of Europe, based, most of them, on the Christian past and tradition of the European peoples. The denial of this spiritual and cultural heritage leads to the relativization of the perennial values and to confusion, because of the attempt to disconnect a whole sphere of the moral problems from the meanings related to guilt, shame and transcendence. The supporters of t...

The increased interest in the religious fact and, consequently, in spirituality, has gradually led to a milder reserve regarding their introduction in the study of man’s “psychical” health from the perspective of psychology. Man is neither just a body nor just a soul, but a soul and a body at the same time, having bodily, psychic (related to the soul) and spiritual needs, which gives him a threefold dimension: somatic, psychic (of the soul) and spiritual. Therefore, man lives psychological states, yet his sp...