| Cristian Bădiliță | |
| Birth Date: | 27 March 1968 |
| Birth Place: | Săveni, Botoșani County, Socialist Republic of Romania |
| Nationality: | Romanian, French |
| Alma Mater: | University of Bucharest Paris-Sorbonne University |
| Occupation: | Theologian, essayist, translator, poet |
Cristian Bădiliță (born March 27, 1968) is a theologian, essayist, translator and contemporary Romanian poet.
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, Florea Fugaru,, 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, . 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,, 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".