02 — The Romanian Philokalia

Stăniloae’s forty-five-year translation of the Filocalia into Romanian — twelve volumes begun at Sibiu in 1946 and completed at Bucharest in 1991 — and the extensive commentary with which he surrounded the texts, which turned a translation into a living reception of hesychasm in the modern Romanian Church.

Tradition: Romanian Orthodox

This section treats the first of Stăniloae’s two monumental undertakings: the Romanian Filocalia. The translation project situates the twelve volumes in the Philokalic and hesychast lineage that runs from St Nikodemos of the Holy Mountain and St Macarius of Corinth through St Paisius Velichkovsky’s Slavonic Dobrotolyubie to Stăniloae’s Romanian rendering; the added commentary examines the notes and prefaces through which Stăniloae made the work far more than a translation.

Contents

File	Description
The Filocalia Translation	The twelve-volume project (1946–1991); reviving hesychasm in Romania; the Philokalic lineage
The Added Commentary	His notes, prefaces, and commentary — the Filocalia as an act of theology, not only translation

See Also

• St. Paisius Velichkovsky — the eighteenth-century Philokalic revival at Neamț in Moldavia
• The Jesus Prayer — the prayer at the heart of the Philokalic tradition
• Method and Sources — how the Philokalic sources feed his systematic theology