Nation, Nationalism, and Minorities in Dumitru Stăniloae's Writings from Telegraful român.

The paper aims at analyzing how Dumitru Stăniloae, a priest within the Romanian Orthodox Church and a theologian, analyzed the concepts of nation, nationalism, and ethnical minorities in his articles published in the newspaper Telegraful român. It shows that Stăniloae first elaborated a theory of the (ethnical) nation and subsequently one of religious nationalism. Within this framework, he spoke about the ethnical minorities and precisely about the Jews. His vocabulary and arguments rhymed in many respects with the discourse of the Romanian far-right. This coherent view of nation and nationalism, however, seemed to have been challenged, starting from 1940, by a theory of Christian anthropology infused with Christian existentialism and Martin Buber's dialogical philosophy. Therefore, one might identify two images of Stăniloae between the theologian of Christian anthropology and the theoretician of ethnical nation(alism). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]