ABSTRACT
This chapter shows how Petre Tutea's typology reflects his belief that human fulfilment is attained through the grace of God's self-revelation in Christ, the Word made flesh. According to Tutea, Christians gifted with exceptional abilities experience God's grace with humility and submissiveness, without the conceit of claiming to be original. Tutea examines Max Weber's distinction between mystical 'religiosity' and the 'rational economy' built up by the work ethic of Protestant 'worldly asceticism'. Marxist orthodoxy saw human mind, consciousness, and ideas as having no independent existence apart from material productive activities. Basic to Tutea's Christian anthropological view is the relationship between Creator and created, which he explored in his concepts of mask, role, and 'theatre as seminar'. Re-education is for Tutea a sort of taming, or brutalisation that denies the divine origin of humanity. Tutea's view of human initiation as flawed mimesis of divine initiative affords an insight into his understanding of imitatio Christi.
