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În Vechiul Testament, Regatul de Nord este adesea considerat o regiune vinova-tă în care poporul s-a îndepărtat de Dumnezeu. Cu toate acestea, este notabil faptul că în descrierea întemeierii cultului din 1 Împărați 12, zeul venerat nu este numit, ci doar definit prin faptul că el a fost responsabil de exod. Un alt aspect deosebit de important este că acest cult nu era centralizat, ci Ieroboam a ridicat altare pentru această divinitate în întreaga țară, inclusiv, foarte probabil, în capi-tală, Samaria, unde exista un templu pentru această divinitate. Bazându-ne pe faptul că exodul este atribuit în toate textele lui Iahve, zeul venerat în Israel nu poate fi altul decât Iahve. El era zeul național și dinastic, inclusiv în Regatul de Nord. Acest lucru este susținut de prezența elementului teoforic iahvist în majo-ritatea numelor regale. Cu toate acestea, cel mai probabil erau tolerate și alte zeități canaanite. De exemplu, regele Ahab a introdus altarul lui Baal în templul lui Iahve.

The Disputation of Pécs (Pécsi Disputa) by György Válaszúti is a unique segment of 16th-century antitrinitarian literature. Since pécs was occupied by the Ottoman empire, Christians had to live by strict rules. They had to live outside the city walls, and they could only use one church. The dispute is a chronicle of a religious debate between the reformed citizens of tolna and the antitrinitarian citizens of Pécs.

In this study, I examine the works of ars praedicandi as used by the Unitarians. The paper focuses on the Unitarian use of the works of Bartholomaeus Keckermann, who attributed an important role to the exordium. The paper further registers an 18th-century Unitarian reader of Keckermann’s rhetoric, found in a composite volume in the Library of the Cluj-Napoca Branch of the Romanian Academy. This work’s earlier impact can also be studied in a Unitarian manuscript revision created as early as in 1653. There is another Unitarian work (Ms. U. 262) on sermon making from this period, a part of which contains examples of exordiums, that is, introductory parts of sermons. Based on all this, I argue that the exordiums were handled much more leniently by the Unitarians than by other Reformed denominations, and that from the late Renaissance to the 18th century, Unitarians were practitioners of a rather traditional type of preaching.

A jelen írás a megszentelés bibliai, hitvallási és dogmatikai értelmezése körüli félreértéseket és az ezek nyomán kialakult téves egyházi gyakorlatot kívánja szemügyre venni. A kérdésről szóló bibliai és egyházi tanítást csak annyiban vázolja, amennyiben a benne rejlő igenből a nemek is érthetőbbé válhatnak.

Lelki, szellemi szempontból is kemény, megpróbáló, megtévesztő időket élünk. Az értelem és értékvesztés korát, a nagy szabadságnak mondott modern rabszolgaság korszakát. Ma nagyon kemény szellemi harc folyik a világban. Mert szabadság politikai korrektségére hivatkozva Istenről szólni szinte bűntény, szinte tiltott. De és ma nem azoktól tartok, akik őt tagadják nyíltan, bátran, lelkesen, gúnyosan, mert az látható, az értelmezhető: van ellenfél, lehet érvelni, lehet harcolni. Sokkal inkább a mai spirituális kotyvalék a veszély, a Huxley-féle emberközpontú vallás. Ugyanaz a gnosztikus, szinkretista jelenség modern formanyelven, a szabadság eszményébe burkolva: minden konstruktum Isten, amit te akarsz, amibe te hiszel. Nekünk továbbra is egyetlen világos utunk marad: a reformátori kereszt útja – mai formanyelven.