Bora Ion Sorin

At the well of James of Sychar, the Savior waits for the disciples to return from the city with the necessaries of life, but a Samaritan woman comes, thirsting for the knowledge of God, who becomes a disciple, the first of her kind. The most important point in the Savior’s conversation with this woman is the dilemma of the place of worship: Mount Garizim, indicated by their parents, or Jerusalem, commanded by the Jews of the time. The Savior’s answer, so clear to the woman, has become the subject of discussion among theologians. Many answers have been given to the question of what it means to worship „in spirit and in truth”, the most appropriate of which is that the place of worship is the Church, in which the Holy Spirit and the Truth of the Person, our Lord Jesus Christ, are permanently found.

The translation of sacred text into Romanian is the greatest achievement in Bible studies in St. Antim’s time. Although very expensive, the books that were out of print were now much closer to believers than before they were translated, first because the doctrinal barriers within the Synodal framework that allowed the authorization of these Church translations were overcome. At the isagogic level, introductory texts point springs, translators, or recensors, and general data about inspirational authors, place and time of writing.