Daniela DUMBRAVĂ, alumna of the Pontifical Oriental Institute, doctor in history of the Institute of Humanities, University of Florence [today: Institute of Human and Social Sciences - Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa], she was also Mellon East-Central European Visiting Scholar at the American Academy in Rome and South-East European Andrew W. Mellon Fellow at the Warburg Institute (London). She directed a seminar at the Pontifical Oriental Institute on "Christian anthropology and contemporary Romanian theology. The sources of an Hesychast paideia among the members of the Burning Bush movement". On the reflection of Andrei Scrima, she published, among others: "La Rivelazione secondo Andrei Scrima", in Renata Salvarani, Marianna Ferrara (eds.), La storia delle religioni e la sfida dei pluralismi, Quaderno di Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni no. 18. Supplemento al n. 83 (1/2017) di Studi e Materiali di Storia delle Religioni, Brescia 2017, pp. 568-580; "Theology and History of Religions in the Middle East. A Brief Account: "Fr. André Scrima, spiritual and peace mediator in Lebanon (1970-1980)", in G. Sfameni Gasparro - A. Cosentino - M. Monaca (eds.), Religion in the History of European Culture. Proceedings of the 9th EASR Conference and IAHR Special Conference, 14-17 September 2009, Messina, Biblioteca dell'Officina di Studi Medievali 16. 1/2, Palermo 2013, pp. 597-610; together with Bogdan Tătaru Cazaban, André Scrima. Expérience spirituelle et langage théologique. Actes du colloque de Roma, 29-30 octobre 2008, Orientalia Christiana Analecta 306, Pontificio Istituto Orientale, Roma, 2019.

Bogdan TĂTARU-CAZABAN is a researcher in the history of religions at the Institute for the History of Religions of the Romanian Academy and co-founder of the international journal Chôra. Journal of ancient and medieval studies: philosophy, theology, sciences. His research interests include the history of angelology, patristic theology, the relationship between the monotheisms, and ecumenical dialogue. He has translated into Romanian St. Augustine, Boethius, Hugh of St. Victor and Nicholas of Cues and has published several books, the most recent of which is Corpul îngerilor. Fragmente dintr-o istorie a ierarhiilor ceresti (The Body of Angels. Fragments of a History of the Celestial Hierarchies, Humanitas Publishing House, Bucharest 2017). He edited André Scrima's book, Duhul Sfânt și unitatea Bisericii. Jurnal de Conciliu (Bucharest 2004). Together with Daniela Dumbravă, André Scrima. Expérience spirituelle et langage théologique. Actes du colloque de Roma, 29-30 octobre 2008, Orientalia Christiana Analecta 306, Pontificio Istituto Orientale, Roma, 2019. Between 2010-2016, he was the Romanian Ambassador to the Holy See (Vatican State).