Caesura 9.2 (2022)
“Paradigmatic Realities in Modern Theology”
Marcel Măcelaru and Ramona Simuț
Issue Editors
Table of Contents
Holistic Mission in the Theology of the Last Fifty Years: Challenges and Paradigms // Misiunea holistică în teologia ultimei jumătăţi de veac: provocări şi paradigme
MARCEL ȘAITIȘ
Who Is Jesus? Jesus’ Identity Questioned in Mark 8.27-30 // Cine este Isus? Identitatea lui Isus pusă în dezbatere în Marcu 8:27-30
ANDREI-DANIEL POP
Psalm 23 and Its Theological Value for Christian Worship. Ways to Apprehend the Biblical Text // Psalmul 23: valoarea teologică pentru închinarea creştină şi modalităţi de familiarizare cu textul biblic
DANIELA LOGHIN MEISAROS
The Neighbour as Public Person. Developing and Applying the Concept in the Public Square // Aproapele ca persoană publică: dezvoltarea şi aplicarea conceptului în sfera publică
NICOLAE CREŢU
The Temple of Shiloh: Importance, Meaning, Sacred Space // Templul din Șilo: importanţă, semnificaţie, spaţiu sacru
IONEL MORARIU
Paradigms of Leader Formation in Deuteronomistic History // Paradigme ale formării liderilor în istoria deuteronomistă
SAMUEL FLORIN BÎRLE
Integrity within Christian Ministry. A Biblical Approach // Conceptul de integritate în slujirea creştină: o abordare biblică
TIMOTEI FLOAREA
Participation in Christ in Pauline Theology. An Overview // Participarea în Cristos în teologia paulină: perspectivă de ansamblu
VASILE FILIP
Caesura 9.1 (2022)
“Word and Work in Modern Theology”
Ramona Simuț and Marcel Măcelaru
Issue Editors
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Pentecost, the Full Gospel, and Religious Play: A Study of Wolfgang Vondey’s Perspective on the Quiddity and Contribution of Pentecostalism // Cincizecimea, evanghelia deplină şi ludicul religios: Studiu asupra specificului şi contribuţiei penticostalismului, în dialog cu teologul Wolfgang Vondey
CIPRIAN GHEORGHE-LUCA
Fundamental Elements Fuelling Modern Mission Work // Elemente fundamentale care au motivat lucrarea misionară penticostală modernă
MARCEL ŞAITIŞ
The Principle of Representation in Romans 5:12-21 // Principiul reprezentării în Romani 5:12-21
ANDREI-DANIEL POP
The Synagogue – A Perspective on Its Origins // Sinagoga – o perspectivă asupra originii sale
IONEL MORARIU
Jacobus Arminius’ Theology and Its Influence throughout History
BENIAMIN MOCAN
Grace, Gentiles, and the Jews. A Hypothesis // Harul, neamurile şi evreii. O ipoteză
IONEL MORARIU
The Role of Affections in Christian Spirituality: A Pentecostal Perspective // Rolul afectelor în spiritualitatea creştină: o perspectivă penticostală
SAMUEL FLORIN BÎRLE
The Relevance of the Ten Commandments in Contemporary Society // Relevanţa celor Zece Porunci în societatea contemporană
TIMOTEI FLOAREA
Caesura 8.2 (2021)
Paradise vs. Reality in Modern Literatures
Ramona Simuț
Issue Editor
Table of Contents
Paradise Images in High-Fantasy Literature: The Chronicles of Narnia // Reprezentări ale paradisului în literatura high-fantasy: Cronicile din Narnia
DAMARIS ZLATAN
Individual and Transcendental Nature within American Romanticism // Natura individuală şi transcendentală în romantismul american
RAMONA SIMUȚ
Book Review
RAMONA SIMUȚ
Simulacra and Simulation: Shaping the Simulation Universe in Postmodernism // Simulacru şi simulare: cristalizarea universului simulării în postmodernism
ȘTEFANIA CULDA
Women as Moral Keepers: Perception vs. Reality
KIMBERLY BALDWIN
Caesura 8.1 (2021)
"Styles and Genres in Literary and Theological Settings"
Ramona Simuț
Issue Editor
Table of Contents
Homiletical Development from a First to a Second Generation Reformer. A Comparison Between Martin Luther and John Calvin
GABRIEL MIREL ALBU
The Superiority of Christ in History. Jesus Christ, the Final Revelation of God’s Self (Superioritatea lui Cristos în istorie. Isus Cristos, revelația finală)
OTILIA VEZENTAN (BERZAVA)
Matthew’s Use of the Pentateuch in the Sermon on the Mount: Establishing the Foundation for Christian Living Through the Example and Instruction of Christ
CAIDEN SCALF
A Study of the Autobiographical Genre in Saint Augustine’s Confessions (Studiu asupra genului autobiografic în Confesiunile Sfântului Augustin)
SIMONA OLTEANU
New Perspectives in Teaching German Cultural Studies. Dach(L) Principle in Selected Schoolbooks (Neue Perspektiven in der Landeskundevermittlung. Das Dach(L)-Prinzip in ausgewählten Daf-Kursbüchern in Rumänien)
ALEXANDRA DENISA IGNA, ADINA BANDICI
Caesura 7.2 (2020)
"Discourse and Society within Biblical Literatures"
Ramona Simuț
Issue Editor
Table of Contents
Jesus not Just a Prophet. Jesus Christ, Son of God in Hebrews 1:1-14
OTILIA VEZENTAN (BERZAVA)
Preaching as Charisma. The Pauline Perspective on Preaching
ADRIAN C. MOCAN
Globalization and Religion. An Introductory Analysis
LAURENŢIU PETRILA
Evangelical Preaching. Peter Patterns and Paradigms
ADRIAN C. MOCAN
Resurrection of the Dead as a Fractional Element in the Corinthian Church Community
ANDREI-DANIEL POP
The Book of Law and its Impact on King Josiah’s Personhood and the Common Good
DANIELA LOGHIN MEISAROS
Caesura 7.1 (2020)
"Biography and Character within Itinerant Literatures"
Ramona Simuț
Issue Editor
Table of Contents
Walking to Byzantium
DAN HORAȚIU POPESCU
The Explorations and Poetic Avenues of Nikos Kavvadias
IAKOVOS MENELAOU
Charles Dickens, the Victorian. Novel Writing and the New Spirit of Reform
ECATERINA OANA BRÎNDAȘ
Morpheus of the Angels as Literary Project. Shapeshifting onto the Body
RAMONA SIMUȚ
Captive in Freedom or, Life on the Run by Mirela Roznoveanu
ADRIANA FOLTUȚ
Book Review
RAMONA SIMUȚ
Caesura 6.2 (2019)
"Intrusions of Life in Modern Literature. A Perspective on Customs and Discourse"
Ecaterina-Oana Brîndaș, Ramona Simuț
Issue Editors
Table of Contents
Rediscovering a Ritual. Between Kitsch and Authentic Value
ALIN SERAFIM ŞTEFĂNUŢ & FLORIN CIOBAN
Translating Literary Texts with MemoQ
BORBÁLA BÖKÖS
A Quiet, Cheap Place to Write or, the Avatars of Silence
DAN HORAŢIU POPESCU
Un Monde Entier Sous Le Voile Dans l’OE uvre d’ Azar Nafisi Lire Lolita À Téhéran
SIMONA D. IENCIU
Trends in Contemporary Poetry
ALINA SIMUŢ
Imaginary Elements of Christian Origin as Reflected in the Socialist Realistic Drama
ALIN SERAFIM ŞTEFĂNUŢ
George Eliot’s Complex Realism. Rural, Social, Moral and Psychological Realism in Adam Bede
ECATERINA OANA BRÎNDAŞ
Caesura 6.1 (2019)
"East to West: New Findings in Comparative Literature"
Yadav Sumati, Ramona Simuț
Issue Editors
Table of Contents
Pico Iyer’s Autumn Lights: Season of Fire and Farewells. A Global Perspective.
GURINDER KAUR SINGH
Gender and Narrative: A Comparative Analysis of The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood and The Palace of Illusions by Chitra Banerjee Divakurni
KAUR KAMALDEEP
Man-Woman Relationship in Gwendolyn Brooks’s Poetry
MUTHURAMAN KANNAYAN
Writing Drought, then and now: A Comparative Assessment of Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay’s The Drought and Anita Agnihotri’s RememberingP RASHANT MAURYA, NAGENDRA KUMAR
Constricting Life: Constructing/Deconstructing Violence in Han Kang’s The Vegetarian
JASMINE ANAND
Haruki Murakami’s Kafka on The Shore – A World of War and Magical Realism with Vedantic view
PATHAK TANUJA
Caesura 5.2 (2018)
"Experiences of the Body in Literature"
Ramona Simuț
Issue Editor
Table of Contents
Body, Soul, and Sin in the 17th Century British Puritanism. The Writings of Thomas Adams (1583 – 1652)
CIPRIAN SIMUȚ
Epistemology from Edward Schillebeeckx to Neil Postman and Its Leverage on Contemporary Literature
RAMONA SIMUȚ
Sergiu Grossu’ s Detention Poetry, Suffering, and Catharsis
ADRIANA FOLTUȚ
Body, Icon, and Mystery in Biblical Literatures
ALEXANDR COCETOV
Book Review
RAMONA SIMUȚ
Caesura 5.1 (2018)
"From Initiation to Adoption as Metaphors of Authority in Literature"
Ramona Simuț
Issue Editor
Table of Contents
“Who Watches the Watchmen? ” Historical Fiction and Transdiegetic Social Initiation in Alan Moore’ s Watchmen
CĂLIN D. DRAGOȘ
Keeping Up with the Gods: Divergence and Rebranding in Neil Gaiman’s American Gods
CĂLIN D. DRAGOȘ
William Perkins’ Legacy High and Low: From Teaching the Commoner to Massively Influencing the Grands of the Day
ALEXANDRU V. STROIE
William Perkins and Reformation through the Instruction of Preachers in Elizabethan Puritanism
ALEXANDRU V. STROIE
The Fruits of True Conversion in Jonathan Edwards’ Religious Affections
DINU MOGA
The Models of New Birth and Adoption in the Writings of John and Paul
DINU MOGA
Caesura 4.2 (2017)
"The Experience of Literature"
Peter Mathews
Issue Editor
Table of Contents
A Tiny, Unrecognizable Speck: The Negotiability of Literary Experience in Ian Mcguire’s The North Water
NICHOLAS BIRNS
Disillusionment at the Caffe Florian: Ishiguro’s Cellists and the Destruction of Experience
PETER MATHEWS
Vicente Blasco Ibanez: From Storyteller to Soldier of the Pen
JEFFREY OXFORD
How Hemingway’s Cats Will Save Literary Studies
MELISSA E. SCHINDLER
“To Die Content”: Death and Writing in Chu Tien-Hsin’s Man of La Mancha
MAVIS CHIA-CHIEH TSENG
Isabel’s Sympathetic Reconciliation in The Portrait of s Lady
YU-WEN SU
Caesura 4.1 (2017)
"Perspectives on Writing from Creativity to Politics"
Ramona Simuț
Issue Editor
Table of Contents
Creative Writing in Ministry Preparation: Narrativizing Formational Reflection
BENJAMIN K. FORREST, MARYBETH DAVIS BAGGETT
Ideas on the Sublime with John Quincy Adams
MATTHEW F. STOLZ
Norse Women as Material for Modern Writing
RAMONA SIMUȚ
The Political Sublime of John Quincy Adams
MATTHEW F. STOLZ
Images of the Soul in Lucian Blaga’s Poetry
ADRIANA FOLTUȚ
Caesura 3.2 (2016)
"Political Speech in 19th Century Literature from the Representatives to the People"
David Lohrey
Issue Editor
Table of Contents
The Orphic Republic: the Citizen Orator
MATTHEW F. STOLZ
Romanian Literary Classics: Between Oblivion and the Urge to Make Them Known
RAMONA SIMUȚ
Caesura 3.1 (2016)
Osvaldo Di Paolo Harrison
Issue Editor
Table of Contents
Neoliberal Panic: The Untimely Hard-Boiled Critique of Germán Maggiori’s Entre Hombres
JUAN CABALLERO
Rethorics of Crime in Argentinian Neopolicial Novels. Stylization and Parody of Crime Fiction
FABIÁN GABRIEL MOSSELLO
Corruption, Crime and the Urban and Cultural Landscape in Argentina during Carlos Saúl Menem’s Administration (1988-1999)
OSVALDO DI PAOLO HARRISON
Evolution or Eternal Recurrence? Social Commentary in Eduardo Mendoza’s Detective Series
JEFFREY OXFORD
An Alternative Discourse: Crime, Criminals, and Victims in Mundial ’78: La Historia Paralela
KIMBERLY LOUIE
Hard-Boiled Novel and Rewriting of the Story in Las Islas by Carlos Gamerro and Segunda Vida. La Guerra No Siempre Te
Convierte En Un Héroe by Guillermo Orsi
MARCELA MELANA
Caesura 2.2 (2015)
"Aesthetic within the Humanities: The Good, the Beautiful, and the True"
Jordan Ryan Goings
Issue Editor
Table of Contents
Good (and Beautiful) News for Postmodern Apologists
DOUGLAS KEITH BLOUNT
Encountering God’s Beauty: How Hegelian Aesthetics Helps the Theologian
JORDAN RYAN GOINGS
The Painter and the Tree: A Biblical Rationale for Visual Art
MATTHEW ERIC RALEY
(Re)Uniting “Christ-Haunted” and “the South”: Bringing Allegory and Culture together in Flannery O’Connor’s Criticism
MEGEN F. BOYETT
Outside, Looking in: the Representative Aesthetic of Incompletion in Wuthering Heights
KYLE MARK JANKE
Literature and Film: Fantasy across Media
MATTHEW BRETT VADEN
Caesura 2.1 (2015)
"Experiments in Literature: The City between Demise and Revival"
Ramona Simuț, PhD
Emanuel University of Oradea
Yadav Sumati
PG Govt. College for Girls, Chadingarh
Table of Contents
“Tanta vis admonitionis inest in locis.” Czernowitz come spazio letterario della memoria
Chiara Conterno
The Hungry Tide: Climate Sustainability en Route from Ancient Texts to Modern Fiction to Humanity
Yadav Sumati
Profiles of History-Makers. Josephus’ Against Apion
Aurelian Botica
Mediums in Literary Settings: The Leverage of Technology in the Modern Novel
Ramona Simuţ
Can Death Be a Happy Event? On the Theology of Death with Nathanael Emmons (1745-1840)
Ciprian Simuţ
The Other Is Oneself. An Expansive Definition of Postcolonial Identity
David T. Lohrey
Caesura 1.2 (2014)
"Literature in the Middle: From High Authority to Word Reality"
Issue Editors
Ramona Simuț, PhD
Emanuel University of Oradea
Călin Lupițu, PhD
Emanuel University of Oradea
Table of Contents
“The All-Knowing God”. Old Testament and Hellenistic Metaphors in the Genre of New Testament Apocalyptic
Aurelian Botica
Dystopian Narratives and Humanism. What a Zombie Makeover Really Looks Like
Jordan Ryan Goings
“The Night Parade”. Experiencing the Folklore-Based Japanese Imaginary between Wabisabi and the Uncanny
Călin Lupițu
The Pain and Suffering of African Children Reflected in Uwem Akpan’s Short Stories Say You’re One of Them
Yildiray Cevik
La Citta Di Gu Cheng: Uno Scenario Apocalittico
Anna Simona Margarito
Great Metropolitan Creations. The Tectonics of Discourse in the Postcolonial City
Timea Venter
Caesura 1.1 (2014)
"The Literature of the Apocalypse: From Prophecy to Disaster"
Issue Editors
Ramona Simuț, PhD
Emanuel University of Oradea
Aurelian Botica, PhD
Emanuel University of Oradea
Irina Drexler, PhD
Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca
Table of Contents
Postmodernism: Surviving the Apocalypse
David T. Lohrey
The Antichrist(ian) Turk in Seventeenth-Century England
Sinan Akilli
(Post-)Apocalyptic Imagination: Uncanny Undead between Sublime and Cynical
Călin D. Lupiţu
Persuading An Audience: Margaret Thatcher’s Speech to the Foreign Policy Association (“The West in the World Today”)
Irina Drexler
The Apocalyptic Tone of Irony in William Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Éva Antal
Images of the Apocalypse in Latin American Hardboiled: Preterist, Futurist, and Postmodern Interpretations
Osvaldo Di Paolo