ICOANA CREDINTEI.ICON OF FAITH

5-14

Authors: Bugiulescu Marin PhD.

Our Lord, Jesus Christ, incarnated in human body, taking on our human nature - „and He made Himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness” (Philippians 2:7), existed in order to raise us from the sin of perdition and to give us again the possibility to enter His eternal and blissful Kingdom of the holy light and of eternal bliss. Thus, God’s knowledge is objective and certain because it comes from God; you can achieve it through faith and by experiencing it through ascesis and love: „this is eternal life: that they know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent” (John 17:3).

28-36

Authors: Bugiulescu Marin PhD.

Christian mission in the Romania has been continuous, but has adapted to the realities of everyday life and to historical conditions, both local and national. However, the clergy and the believers engaged in serving the Church in Romania continued preaching the Gospel and strengthening the faith and unity of the nation, a necessary component for effective ministry. Keywords: Christian, mission, Church, ministry

43-48

Authors: Verdeș Victoria

As a basic dimension of personality, selfesteem is related to the relation that each human subject has with himself, the confidence in one’s own ability to think and act independently, autonomously, to take decisions in order to reach goals, to assert one’s needs, aspirations, to aspire to and fight for their accomplishment

62-72

Authors: Drd. Bugiulescu Constantin Valentin

Saint Andrew, the Apostle of the Gets-Dacians (Scythes).As Romanians, we draw our Christian faith from St Andrews’s activity, who preached on the territory between the Danube and the Black Sea, later on called Dobrudgea, known from the antique sources as “Scythia Minor”.In the 3rd century, the number of these “lay” missionaries increased due to certain Christian prisoners whom the Goths - established on the territory north of the Danube - used to bring here from Asia Minor, where Christianity was known as far back as the “apostolic century”. Some of them were ordained as bishops, chorepiscopi, priests and deacons.