Type of course: |
Compulsory |
Language of instruction: |
Romanian |
Erasmus Language of instruction: |
English |
Name of lecturer: |
Marius - Liviu Telea |
Seminar tutor: |
Marius - Liviu Telea |
Form of education |
Full-time |
Form of instruction: |
Class |
Number of teaching hours per semester: |
28 |
Number of teaching hours per week: |
2 |
Semester: |
Summer |
Form of receiving a credit for a course: |
Grade |
Number of ECTS credits allocated |
7 |
Course aims:
being familiar with the significant contribution of the Church to the development of the social and charitable side of the Byzantine life
acquiring a minimum set of knowledge and basic notions about the history of the Church-State relations in Byzantium
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Course Entry Requirements:
The Spirituality of Byzantium
Course contents:
- Church and State during the persecutions.
- Constantine the Great and the increasing role and importance of the Church.
- Theodosius the Great - Christianity becomes the State religion.
- The Byzantine symphony.
- Disturbance actions of the Byzantine symphony –the Monophysitism.
- Disturbance actions of the Byzantine symphony – the Iconoclasm.
- Disturbance actions of the Byzantine symphony – the Monothelism.
- The role of monks in establishing the Church-State relations in Byzantium
- The Papacy and Byzantium.
- Controversies between Constantinopolitan patriarchs and Byzantine emperors.
- The emperors involvement in religious controversies.
- The Church - a institution of the State in Byzantium.
- The Church - the State successor after the Ottoman conquest.
- Discussions and debates. The course evaluation.
Teaching methods:
lecture, conversation, exemplification.
Learning outcomes:
The lecture tries to analyze the specific problems of the Church-State relationship during the Byzantine history.
Learning outcomes verification and assessment criteria:
Written paper - 70%; continuous assessment - 30%.
Recommended reading:
Tătaru-CAZABAN,
Teologie şi politică. De la Sfinţii Părinţi la Europa unită, Anastasia
, Bucuresti
, 1994
, 105-109
PREDA, Radu,
Biseria în Stat. O invitaţie la dezbatere, Editura Scripta
, Bucuresti
, 1999
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SNAGOV,
Relaţiile Stat-Biserică, Editura Gnosis
, Bucureşti
, 1996
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