| Title: | In the Pages of the Review Christian Culture from Blaj (If St. Paul Were Alive ... He Would Be a Journalist!) |
| Author: | Viorella Manolache |
| Publication: | Text şi discurs religios, IX, Section Literatura și sacrul, p. 251-264 |
| p-ISSN: | 2066-4818 |
| e-ISSN: | 2393-3402 |
| Publisher: | Editura Universităţii „Alexandru Ioan Cuza” |
| Place: | Iași |
| Year: | 2018 |
| Abstract: | The present study reviews/retextures and comments columns, signals and texts devoted by the magazine Cultura Creştină – Christian culture (1911-1944) to the Great Union, pointing to a double creative valence: on the one hand, the magazine’s premise is favourable to militating, in the spirit of a more than theological culture, through synchronization with landmarks/modern European culture goals of the moment and by attachment to traditional local requests; on the other hand, it insists on valuing the manifesto-act of engaging in the process of renovating society”, by focusing on “issues of the major nation”, of countermeasures and the settlement of the political, social and ideological-religious crises existing not only in the area of the Church, but also in the sphere of local realities, with unwanted impact on the fundamentals / Christian values of society. The essential reference in the pages of the journal is the year 1918, with a decisive role in the approach explicitly focused on “The great Union, seen deeper than its concrete and its present” and guided by pivoting elements – the Blaj press; the commemorative anniversary context; post-Union reflections, but, also the interest given to the substance of memoirs, the importance of the manifestos and imperative ideas of the Great Union program. The vocational profile, the action modality and the complex value of the journal Cultura Creştină – Christian Culture needs to be subsumed, primarily, to the illustrative cultural and reactionary context of the moment, considered as a process decisively imprinted by the Pauline breath/spirit. Not by chance, within the targeted period and reality, the year 1918 announced the mission of the clergy, with historical-national implications, acknowledged the importance of Church press, recognizing its overwhelming power of influence on the national conscience and suggested that, if St. Paul were alive, he would certainly be a journalist. |
| Key words: | militant culture/reactive cultural, 1918, Cultura Creştină – Christian Culture magazine |
| Language: | English |
| Links: |  pdf  html |
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