Type of course: |
Compulsory |
Language of instruction: |
Romanian |
Erasmus Language of instruction: |
English |
Name of lecturer: |
Razvan Brudiu |
Seminar tutor: |
Razvan Brudiu |
Form of education |
Full-time |
Form of instruction: |
Lecture |
Number of teaching hours per semester: |
42 |
Number of teaching hours per week: |
3 |
Semester: |
Summer |
Form of receiving a credit for a course: |
Grade |
Number of ECTS credits allocated |
4 |
Course aims:
to know and understand the mission’s exigencies;
to apply theories and methods to the missionary practical realities;
to know and understand the concept of Trinity and missions;
to explain the mission’s effects upon the Church;
to define and apply the concept of missionary exigency from a theoretical standing point.
Course Entry Requirements:
n/a
Course contents:
1. The expansion of new religious movements;
2. Brief history of the heretical and sectarian phenomenon. Explanatory notions: Church, religious cult, denomination, heresy, schism and sect;
3. The causes of the emergence of neo-Protestant cults;
4. The emergence of neo-Protestant cults in Christianity;
5. The Baptists: new considerations on Baptist missionary work;
6. The Baptist denomination;
7. The Pentecostal denomination or the Apostolic Church of God;
8. Seventh-day Adventists - "Seventh-day Adventist Church";
9. Seventh-day Adventists in Romania. Expressions of the Adventist denomination;
10. The Mormons - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints;
11. Jehovah's Witnesses;
12. New syncretistic religious movements;
13. Occultism and Satanism;
14. Magic, witchcraft and pseudo-medical practices.
Seminar:
1. Syncretism. Features and typologies;
2. New Age syncretism;
3. The anti-calendar movement;
4. The Maglavit phenomenon;
5. The Vladimirești movement;
6. M.S.I.A.- "Movement for Spiritual Integration in the Absolute";
7. Dowsing;
8. Oriental religious movements: Zen and Ananda Marga ("The Path of Bliss");
9. Transcendental Meditation and Sahaja Yoga;
10. Osho Meditation and Sathya Sai Baba;
11. The Secret (Hidden) Church of the Mother of God;
12. Reincarnation in the New Age movement;
13. Orthodox mission facing the proselytism of certain Oriental groups;
14. Missionary remedies to fight occult phenomena
Teaching methods:
Lecture, exemplification, conversation, debate, PowerPoint presentation, video-projections.
Learning outcomes:
critical, selective and systematic attitude towards missiological information; ability of applying the principles for understanding a patristic document in an appropriate manner, respectively, to take into account all elements involved (linguistic, socio-cultural, religious).
Learning outcomes verification and assessment criteria:
Written paper-interpretative essay – 30%. Frontal evaluation / Oral exam: 70%
Recommended reading:
Petre I. David,
Invazia sectelor în România, Europolis Publishing House
, Constanța
, 2000
, x
Gheorghe Petraru,
Dimensiunea penitențială și euharistică a vieții creștine, Doxologia Publishing House
, Iași
, 2015
, x
Dan Bădulescu,
Împărăția răului: New Age. Originile, istoricul, doctrinele și consecințele sale din perspectivă ortodoxă, Christiana Publishing House
, București
, 2001
, x
David Pestroiu,
Martorii lui Iehova, Reîntregirea Publishing House
, Alba Iulia
, 2013
, x
Jean Vernette,
Les Sectes et l'Eglise catholique. Le document romain, Editions du Cerf
, Paris
, 1993
, x
Radu Petre Mureșan,
Alternative spirituale în România - secolul XXI - perspectivă ortodoxă, Agnos Publishing House
, Sibiu
, 2011
, x
Arsenie Vliangoftis,
Ereziile contemporane - o adevărată amenințare, Evanghelismos Publishing House
, București
, 2006
, x