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The Institute for Eastern Churches at the University of Würzburg, Germany, hosted a symposium on Orthodox anthropology earlier this week.

The event, entitled "Aspects of Orthodox Anthropology. The Image of Man in the Orthodox Church", brought together theologians, priests, Orthodox students, as well as Catholics and Evangelicals interested in Orthodoxy, to reflect on the creation of man in the image of God, his place and vocation in creation, freedom, the experience of suffering and the perspective of salvation.

A Romanian priestess evoked St. Dumitru Staniloae The scientific communications started with the lecture "Freedom as a divine gift and human responsibility: the anthropology of Dumitru Stăniloae in dialogue with the Eastern Fathers", given by the priestess Dr. Claudia Maria Podașcă, a doctor and theologian from Mannheim.

The priestess highlighted the relevance of the thinking of the great Romanian theologian recently canonized by the Romanian Orthodox Church, for whom the freedom given to man since creation does not mean an autonomy in relation to his peers, but the ability to respond to God and his neighbor.

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