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During the reign of Constantin Brâncoveanu, remarkable achievements were recorded in architecture and painting. We shall meet the values of art and architecture in our country, in general, and especially those of the age of Saint Constantin Brâncoveanu, which has left its mark not just on the territory in Muntenia, as it also penetrated in Transylvania, crossed the Romanian western boundaries into Serbia and went up to Bessarabia. Today, the art of Brâncoveanu’s epoch is brought again to light by the monuments tha...

The existence of a philosophy in Christianity was regarded as unfounded even by some of the writers of the first Christian centuries. More precisely, the idea presented in some patristic texts was that the Logos the Greeks had been looking for became incarnate and proved His truthfulness to the people. Even though the Greek philosophy may be regarded as a gift from God, namely as a manifestation of the eternal Logos - which manifestation gained a philosophic expression through Heraclitus and Plato - Christianity h...

Secularization is a phenomenon that generates the desecration of the society and of man. In time, the western culture has disseminated an autonomous conception regarding the world, which has eliminated God from the visible creation, isolating Him in an inaccessible transcendence. The most painful consequence of secularization is the minimization of the human person and of interpersonal communion. In this state of the secularized man one can see the result of an unbalanced conception regarding God, the world and ma...