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About the Author
Alexandru Popescu is a writer and psychiatrist, currently living in Oxford.
Reviews
'It is splendid that this work is being published. It presents an enormous contribution to East-West understanding: the Romanian perspective has a specially important part to play. A very admirable work.' Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury 'This remarkable study of the philosopher Petre Tutea describes matters fundamental to Eastern Orthodox theology through the medium of an enthralling (often appalling) story of a man's resistance to totalitarian brutality and oppression. Tutea found that the renewal of his Christian faith saved his identity, even as dark forces were attempting to rob it from him. Never has there been a more pressing need to find a capacious and religiously grounded philosophy of freedom for an emerging 'new europe' squeezed between the Scylla of redundant totalitarianisms in the East, and the equally oppressive Charybdis of the global consumerisms of the West. Alex Popescu leads the reader through harrowing pages, to an underlying sense that Orthodoxy, a message re-pristinated in Tutea, speaks to theA human soul in its existential needs, by constantly offering the challenge to rise into freedom; to become the divinely graced self'.' Revd Dr John A. McGuckin, Professor of Early Church History, Union Theological Seminary, and Professor of Byzantine Christianity, Columbia University, USA 'Tutea ranks alongside Bonhoeffer in articulating the philosophy of Christian endurance. I have cherished the hope that an English publisher may publish this work.' Oliver O'Donovan, Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology, Christ Church, Oxford 'A truly epoch-making book. I don't recollect ever having recommended a book more strongly for publication. Popescu puts the Romanian Orthodox Church centre stage and brings an element into focus which is hardly known to anyone outside his own country. Tutea is a figure of seminal importance, and one of the great figures of the universal Church of the twentieth century. This book provides a perspective
Book Information
ISBN 9780754650065
Author Alexandru Popescu
Format Paperback
Page Count 337
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 900g