It is suggested that Eliade gained insight from Orthodoxy, but that this was brought to consciousness by his sojourn in India. However, dissonances are also noted, and for every potential Orthodox source of Eliade’s theories there is another equally credible source, causing a controversy over the formative influences of his Romanian youth as opposed to his later Indian experience. Ten consonances between Eliade’s thought and Orthodox theology are considered. Orthodox theologians Vladimir Lossky and Dumitru Stăniloae are inspected for similarities to Eliade. His early essays present Orthodoxy as a mystical religion in which, without some experience of the sacred, profane existence is seen as meaningless and he later identified this same basic schema in all religion. His biography and his understanding of religion are outlined and the possibly formative influence of Eastern Orthodoxy is considered, as are recent publications on the issue.
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