Talk:Dumitru Stăniloae

Assessment comment

The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:Dumitru Stăniloae/Comments, and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.

The article about Staniloae has not only numerous orthographic mistakes, but also contains incorrect information in the biography compare for example the date of his arrest with the information on the official site www.dumitrustaniloae.ro!!!

Last edited at 17:47, 2 January 2008 (UTC). Substituted at 13:54, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

External links modified

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified one external link on Dumitru Stăniloae. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

• Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20080619213937/http://www.etf.cuni.cz/cv/index.html to http://www.etf.cuni.cz/cv/index.html

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 5 June 2024).

• If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
• If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 09:56, 26 December 2017 (UTC)

Telegraful roman

I'll try to tackle this issue in the weeks to come. I think it's important and I find it surprising that no mention of this has surfaced so far in wikipedia articles despite the extensive academic literature currently available (in Romanian and in English). Independently from his contribution to Eastern Orthodox theology, Staniloae was a nationalist ideologist, and in the 30s and 40s headed what was one of the most overtly antisemitic church newspapers. Plinul cel tanar (talk) 07:09, 23 May 2021 (UTC)

POV

The article needs to reflect the ongoing controversy. While DS is remembered as an important theologian and (recently as a saint) by the Church he is also known for his aggressive antisemitism and pro-Nazi editorials. The announcement of his canonization was met by the Elie Wiesel National Institute for Studying the Holocaust in Romania with the following press statement (fragment):

Dumitru Stăniloae (1903-1993) wrote articles in the far-right publications Calendarul and Porunca vremii in which he defended Nazi Germany and the link between Orthodoxy and ethnocracy. He also made important contributions in the pages of the magazine Gândirea where he engaged in far-right debates arguing the link between orthodoxy and nationalism. In addition, he also defended legionionism in the pages of Telegrafului român, the official magazine of the Archdiocese of Sibiu. When the Legionaries came to power, Stăniloae stated that "Today (September 22, 1940) our nation once again takes in its hand the sword of the Archangel, the guardian of Christianity, which God has given it. Today we constitute ourselves into a state permeated by faith in God, into an advanced citizenry which stands firm and impregnable in the face of pagan chaos. This, we believe, is the meaning of today's revolution in the life of our state, the meaning of the transformation into a national-legionary state, under the patronage of the Archangel Michael, God's warrior against the aggressive powers of evil. Other nations claim the Archangel Michael as their patron [...] But no nation has accomplished and is accomplishing the work of the Archangel Michael on the visible plane of history as our nation has done and does not accomplish so completely." (Romanian Telegraph, no. 39, 1940). Also for Stăniloae, the installation of the National Legionary State marks the removal of those ministers "who could only speak by reading the anti-religious doctrine of the Jew Durkheim".

More generally, there is abundant literature underlining DS's role as a nationalist and antisemitic writer: this needs to be in the article including the lead. Plinul cel tanar (talk) 07:29, 3 August 2024 (UTC)