From Alexandru Teodorescu to Sandu Tudor. Biographical Benchmarks

• Author: Carmen Ciornea
• Position: Facultatea de Teologie, Universitatea ?Ovidius'
• Pages: 25-33

Law, Society & Organisations

Volume IV, Issue 6 (1 / 2019)

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Carmen CIORNEA

Facultatea de Teologie – Universitatea „Ovidius”

FROM ALEXANDRU TEODORESCU TO

SANDU TUDOR. BIOGRAPHICAL

BENCHMARKS

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eywords

Sandu Tudor;

Alexandru Teodorescu;

Orthodoxy;

Christian paradigm;

Association of Romanian Christian Students

Abstract

Sandu Tudor's activity as a member of the Association of Romanian Christian Students, his involvement

in the academic environment of the period, respectively in the various student movements, has been a less

researched topic. Historiography so far has offered o nly few milestones which are rather empirical and

factual; a circumstantial interpretation would configure a clear dimension of what was, from this

perspective, Sandu Tudor: an influence factor that moved the Orthodox Christian message from the sphere

of symbolic communication to the public space. The objective of the paper is to bring to the public space

conclusive evidence of Sandu Tudor's involvement in the events and debates related to the Romanian

Orthodox Church in the first interwar decade. A large part of the research lies in the discovery of evidence

relevant to understanding the events of the above-mentioned period; documents from the secret police’s

archives were collected and selected and then, as their acuity cannot be taken for granted, corrobo rated

with other types of sources - from specialized works on interwar Romania to confessional literature. The

material was shaped and reshaped critically until the personality of Sandu Tudor emerged free from myths

and prejudices. The present study aims to add another piece to the puzzle posed by the mystery of the

personality of Sandu Tudor, and also to complete and colour the picture of Great Romania in the first

decade of the interwar period.

JEL Classification: I20; K49; Z12