Cristian Bădiliță (born March 27, 1968) is a theologian, essayist, translator and contemporary Romanian poet.

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Cristian Bădiliță
Born	27 March 1968 Săveni, Botoșani County, Socialist Republic of Romania
Nationality	Romanian, French
Alma mater	University of Bucharest Paris-Sorbonne University
Occupation	Theologian, essayist, translator, poet
Website	www.cristianbadilita.ro

Biography

He was born in Săveni, Botoșani County, where he lived until the age of 14. He settled afterwards in Botoșani, where he studied at the A. T. Laurian High School. His debut was in 1982 when he published his first poems in Athenaeum magazine. In 1986 he had a second literary debut, again with poetry, in Chronicle, an important cultural magazine in Iași. After his traumatic experience in the communist compulsory military service (narrated later on in The Gordian Knot), Bădiliță followed for two years the courses of the Faculty of Letters at the University of Bucharest, having as mentors personalities such as Cornel Mihai Ionescu [ro], Florea Fugaru, Ioan Pânzaru [ro], and Pan M. Vizirescu, the last survivor of the Gândirea magazine. In 1990 he transferred to the Classical Languages department, where he met the scholar Petru Creția. Their friendship resulted in an essay on the Book of Revelation of John.

In 1991–1992 Bădiliță studied theology at the Seminario Conciliar in Madrid. At the Seminar he studied with professors such as the patrologist Juan Ayan Calvo and the specialist in the phenomenology of religion, Juan Martín Velasco [es]. He taught ancient Greek language and literature at West University of Timișoara, before he settled in France in 1995, together with his wife, Smaranda Bădiliță, a specialist in Philon of Alexandria. He holds a Ph.D. in ancient history of Christianity from the University Paris IV Sorbonne, with thesis "Les métamorphoses de l'Antichrist chez les Pères de l'Eglise",[1] Distinction summa cum laude. The jury included Monique Alexandre, Jean-Noël Guinot, Jean-Claude Fredouille, Enrico Norelli [fr], and Olivier Munnich. The work was awarded the "Salomon Reinach" Prize of the Hellenistic Association of France.

Bădiliță specialized in Greek and Latin patristic literature. In 2001, he started to collaborate with New Europe College in Bucharest, by organizing an international conferences on John Cassian and another on the fathers of the church in the 20th century. He organized the third international conference on patristic and ecumenism at Ovidius University of Constanța. Also within the New Europe College from 2003 to 2011 he has been coordinating together with Francisca Băltăceanu and Monica Broșteanu the commented translation of the Septuagint, a project published in collaboration with the Polirom Publishing House and the "Anonymous Foundation". He coordinated the first scientific edition of the writings of Nicolae Steinhardt, published by Humanitas. He is currently working on a commented translation of the New Testament.

He considers himself a Christian right-wing anarchist and advocates for the restoration of monarchy in Romania. He is a critic of the communist and neo-communist imposture, often expressing his reservations against the modern ochlocratic system in Romania. He actively participated in the Romanian Revolution of December 1989 and the organization of Golaniad protests at University Square, Bucharest (1990). He was fellow of the Institute of Culture in Trento and Wissenschaftkolleg in Berlin. He participated in numerous international conferences, as well as in writing collective volumes, magazines and international dictionaries. On 22 December 2009 he launched the cultural religious electronic magazine "Oglindanet".^{[citation needed]}

Works

Publications

Editions and anthologies

• Les Pères de l'Église d'aujourd'hui dans le monde (Paris, 2006); in collaboration with Charles Kannengiesser
• St. Gregory of Nyssa – Life of St. Macrina (Anastasia, 2004);
• Jean Cassien entre l'Orient et l'Occident (Ed. Beauchesne / Polirom, 2003); in collaboration with Attila Jakab
• Europe's Nostalgia. Volume in honor of Al. Paleologu (Polirom, 2003); in collaboration with Tudorel Urian
• About Absolute Love. Commentary on the First Epistle of John (Polirom, 2003)
• Mircea Eliade. Encounter with the sacred (Edition II, Equinox, 2001)
• Socrates, the Man (Humanitas, 1996)
• Myths of Plato (Humanitas, 1996)

Commented Translations from Greek and Latin

• New Testament – Gospel of John, bilingual edition, Volume II (Editura Curtea Veche, 2010)
• New Testament – Matthew, bilingual edition, Volume I (Curtea Veche, 2009)
• Three Mystical Novels of Antiquity - Joseph and Aseneth, Testament of Job, Testament of Abraham (Second Edition Revised, Curtea Veche, 2008)
• Apocryphal Gospels (ed. IV, Polirom, 2007)
• Patericon (ed. III, Polirom, 2007)
• Evagrius of Pontus, practical Treaty. Gnostic (second edition, Polirom, 2003)
• Three of the Old Testament Apocrypha (Polirom, 2000)
• Apocalypse of Paul (Polirom, 1999); in collaboration with Smaranda Bădiliță

References

External links

• Official website
• "Oglindanet" (in Romanian). A cultural religious electronic magazine.
• "Beauchesne Editeur" (in French).