Cristian Bădiliță

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

Born in Săveni, Romania 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 in Bucharest (Romanian - French department), having as mentors famous personalities as: Cornel Mihai Ionescu, Florea Fugaru, Ioan Pânzaru and Pan M. Vizirescu, the last remarkable survivor of "Gandirea" magazine. In 1990 he transferred to the Classical Languages department, where he met the remarkable scholar Petru Cretia. Their friendship resulted in a writing on The Book on Revelation of John. In 1991–1992 Bădiliță studied theology at the Seminario Conciliar in Madrid. At the Seminar he studied with professors like the patrologist Juan Ayan Calvo and the specialist in the phenomenology of religion, Juan Martin Velasco. He taught ancient Greek language and literature at the University of Timişoara, before he settled in France in 1995, together with his wife, Smaranda Bădiliță, specialist in Philon of Alexandria. He holds a PhD in ancient history of Christianity at the University Paris IV Sorbonne with a thesis "Les métamorphoses de l'Antichrist chez les Peres de l'Eglise", Distinction summa cum laude. The jury included: Monique Alexandre, Jean-Noël Guinot, Jean-Claude Fredouille, Enrico Norelli and Olivier Munnich. The work was awarded the "Salomon Reinach" Prize of the Hellenistic Association in 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 Constanța University. Also within the New Europe College from 2003 to 2011 he has been coordinating together with Francisca Băltăceanu and Monica Brosteanu, 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 revolt of December 1989 and the organization of protests in the Bucharest University Square (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".

Publications

• Finger on the Wound and other Antipolitical Disintoxications (Vremea, 2011);
• Guide of Antichristology. Studies, translations and commentaries (Second Edition, Vremea, 2011);
• Landscape with Ape and Angel. Apocryphal letters of Archibald's de la Cruz (Limes, 2011);
• Patristique et oecuménisme. Themes, contextes, personnages (Beauchesne, 2010);
• Seraphita- Concerto for harp and guillotine (Gutenberg Galaxy, 2010);
• Small Book of Heresies (Gutenberg Galaxy, 2010);
• Asceticism and Childhood - Visible and Invisible Things of the Ascetic Childhood (Curtea Veche, 2010);
• Kordian Gnot (sic!) (Galaxia Gutenberg, 2009);
• Seraphita- Concerto for harp and guillotine (Curtea Veche, 2009);
• Orthodoxy versus Orthodoxy (Curtea Veche, 2009);
• Science, Love, Faith - Conversations with European Patrologists (Curtea Veche, 2008);
• Glaphyra. Nine Biblical and Patristic studies (Polirom, 2008);
• God of Mancha sleeping with his cracked temple on my shoulder (Curtea Veche, 2008);
• Sacred and Melancholy (ed. II, Dacia, 2007);
• Platonopolis or Reconciliation with Philosophy (ed. II, Curtea Veche, 2007);
• The Loneliness of a Migratory Bird (Curtea Veche, 2007);
• Poems for Birds and Aliens (Curtea Veche, 2007);
• Metamorphoses of Antichrist in the Church Fathers’, translated by Teodora Ionita (Polirom, 2006);
• Les Peres de l'Église d'aujourd'hui Dans le monde (avec Charles Kannengiesser, Beauchesne, 2006);
• Temptation of Misanthropy. Stromateis (Edition II, Curtea Veche, 2006);
• King with Harp in Hand (ed. II, Old Court, 2006);
• Finger on the Wound (Curtea Veche, 2006);
• Les métamorphoses de l'Antichrist chez les Peres de l'Eglise (Beauchesne, 2005);
• MicroRevelation (Curtea Veche, 2005);
• Arcimboldo's Sunday (Brumar, 2004);
• Gordian Knot (ed III, Curtea Veche, 2004);
• Visible and Invisible Things (Curtea Veche, 2004);
• Jean Cassien entre l'Orient et l'Occident (avec Attila Jakab, Beauchesne, 2003);
• Mircea Eliade. Encounter with the Sacred (ed. II, Echinox, 2001);
• Death and the Monk (Polirom, 1998);
• Myths of Plato (Humanitas, 1996);

Editions and anthologies

• Les Peres 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 (Ed. 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 (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. Fourth, 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