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› Horváth Levente
› 2023
› Pages: 441
This study attempts to identify, clarify and evaluate the changing concept of missions in the Hungarian Reformed Church in Transylvania with special reference to the modality/sodality models during the years 1895-1950.
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› Papp György
› 2021
› Pages: 161--173
The paper presents some aspects of the theological science which I considered important for the permanent renewal of doing theology in the Hungarian Reformed Church of Transylvania. I hope I made it clear through this paper that doing theology means also the shaping of a new life (both of the one doing theology and their readers), which is conceived and developing in the safety of the living-space of the New Covenant through Jesus, i.e., the Kingdom of God, which came near us. This new life, i.e., the “Kingdom-membership” implies also new understanding: a new understanding not only of the whole life but of the interpretation or definition of the essence of theological science as well.
“Vera iustitia et sanctitate praeditum…”. The content of imago Dei according to the 6th article of the Heidelberg Catechism
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› Papp György
› 2021
› Pages: 146--158
Theis paper analyses the concept of “imago Dei” based on the 6th answer of the Heidelberg Catechism. I chose this topic as it is one of the most controversial questions of systematic theology. If one browses through the dogmatic and ethical works written from the earliest period of Christianity to the most recent times, they will find a large variety of answers. All of these attempt to explain what the writer of Genesis meant by the expression na‘aśęh ’ ādām beṣalmenu kidemutenu. The Heidelberg Catechism deals with this topic in the 6th answer where the authors attested that God did not create the first human being godless and malicious. After stating that as a matter of fact, God created man according to his own image and likeness, the Catechism explains the term imago Dei in a twofold way: first, it seeks to define the inner content of the image and similitude of God, and secondly it expands upon the purpose of man given by God as the image of his creator within the creation.
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› Papp György
› 2021
› Pages: 119--145
This paper presents the doctrine on baptism in the Haereticarum fabularum compendium of Theodoret of Cyrus. From this presentation we learn that Theodoret presents in this work a multi-contextual image of the “all-holy” baptism. The divine origin of the sacrament determined Theodoret to offer it a special place within his theological system. This special place is expressed through the setting of the chapter concerning baptism as well: it is put between the soteriological Christology and the chapters concerning Theodoret’s eschatology, the latter being an introduction to the ethical chapters.
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› Papp György
› 2021
› Pages: 99--118
This paper is an expanded and somewhat more elaborated version of an earlier study in which I tried to give a general overview on the word-usage concerning the passion of Jesus Christ in the early Christian creeds. The purpose of this short paper is in part to give a comparative presentation of the sufferings of Lord Jesus Christ in the Western Creeds, and in part I also try to define the role of mentioning the name of Pontius Pilatus in them.
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› Papp György
› 2021
› Pages: 7--97
This paper was my MA thesis, and its topic is the reception of the teaching of the Church Fathers concerning the baptism in the 1559 edition of John Calvin’s Institutes. In this thesis, I try to unfold some of the factors that determined the way Calvin used the writings of the Church Fathers in formulating his doctrine of baptism. After presenting the patristic quotations related to the ‘theoretical’ theology of baptism, I will present the quotations and references that are related rather to the practice of baptism. Here I analyse the references regarding the doctrine of baptism coming from the Donatists, the problematic of emergency baptism and women’s right to baptize. Finally, I will present the references from Inst IV 16, dealing with infant baptism. In the last chapter of this study, I will try to summarize the conclusions of the research. I hope the reader will have a clearer image on Calvin’s use of the Church Fathers’ theological heritage on baptism in the Institutes.
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› Pásztori-Kupán István
› 2011
› 3
› 1
› Pages: 25--34
This study presents the doctrinal environment of the Nicaeno-Constantinopolitanum, including its lost Tomus, mentioned by the synodal epistle of 382, in light of which the Creed’s theology ought to be explained. Despite some lacunae, modern scholarship established links between the West (Rome), the Antiochene council of 379 and the ecumenical council of 381. The Fathers’ attempts to find new methods of expressing a pneumatology based on the threefold ὁμοούσια demonstrate that the consubstantiality was meant to be extended to the Spirit. The Early Church regarded the Nicene Creed as being “the faith” (ἡ πίστις) or “the symbol” (τὸ σύμβολον). The other three formulae (of 381, 433 and 451) were definitions or explanations (ὅροι) of, yet by no means additions to “the ancient faith of the 318 holy Fathers”.
The one veneration belonging to the One Son. The union of worship as the criterion of teaching "the One and the same" during the Monophysite controversy
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› Pásztori-Kupán István
› 2010
› 3
› 1
› Pages: 77--94
The Holy Spirit as the Mother of the Son?. Origen’s Interpretation of a Surviving Fragment from The Gospel According to the Hebrews
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› Pásztori-Kupán István
› 2009
› 228
› Pages: 285--291
Theodoret of Cyrus’s Double Treatise On the Trinity and On the Incarnation. The Antiochene Pathway to Chalcedon
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› Pásztori-Kupán István
› 2007
› Pages: 242
I invite the reader to take a journey into the theological world of two little treatises written by one of the most interesting ecclesiastical figures of the fifth century coming from the Antiochene tradition: Theodoret, Bishop of Cyrus.
Quotations of Theodoret’s De sancta et vivifica Trinitate in Euthymius Zigabenus’ Panoplia Dogmatica
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› Pásztori-Kupán István
› 2002
› 42
› 4
› Pages: 481--489
In aetatum confiniis. A Dialogue between Early, Early Modern and Contemporary Church on Various Topics of Christian Doctrine
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› Papp György
› 2021
› Pages: 172
This volume contains selected papers from the broader field of History of Christian Doctrines, and more specifically from Patristics and Reformation studies, but also from the border between them. Most of them were written in the academic year 2014-2015, during my MA studies in the field of Patristics at the Theological University of the (vrijgemaakt) Reformed Churches in the Netherlands, in Kampen. The main topic of the MA programme was the Baptism in the Early Church, therefore the most of these papers presents various aspects of this question. In the following few paragraphs I will present short summary of each paper from this volume.
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› Visky Sándor Béla
› 2010
› 55
› 1
› Pages: 44--53
The spiritual atmosphere can be pure and impure, life nourishing or stifling. The physical atmosphere can also be pure or polluted, life nourishing or stifling. In this context pure air means the abundance of man’s physical living conditions, the pureness and the absence of harm in the whole ecological system, ensuring man’s living space. It also means the balance, which has to exist between the food- and energy resources of our planet for the daily needs of its 7 billion inhabitants. There is a highly tense struggle going on for clean air, habitable earth in ecological as well as economic aspects. Our thesis: it is significant in which spiritual medium this battle takes place. The mere spiritual medium can contribute towards the solution of the problems, which the more and more polluted physical and economic climate brings about.
Reformer – Since When?. An Attempt to Reassess the Young Calvin’s Theological Attitude towards the Mediaeval Church
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› Pásztori-Kupán István
› 2010
› 103
› 1
› Pages: 41--51
Reformátor – mióta? A fiatal Kálvin teológiai viszonyulása a középkori egyházhoz. Újraértékelési kísérlet. Kálvint a szakirodalom 1536-tól, az Institutio megjelenésétől tekinti reformátornak. Ebben az értelemben a korábbi megnyilatkozásait – jelesen a lelkek virrasztásáról szóló Psychopannychiát – kezdeti próbálkozásként tartják számon. Annak ellenére, hogy nyílt támadásról valóban nem beszélhetünk, a mű soraiban fellelhetők olyan elemek, amelyek mintegy előre jelzik a szerző későbbi nyílt küldetésvállalását. Kálvin a világ számára 1536-ban, önmaga előtt azonban már jóval korábban reformátorrá vált. Az általa érintett kérdések nem időszerűtlenek, noha ma már másként tevődnek fel.
Invocation of biblical authority in a secular decision. The theocratic relevance of the Torda Edict (1568)
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› Pásztori-Kupán István
› 2008
› 101
› 6
› Pages: 677--699
It is often argued that the sixteenth-century Reformation initiated a chain of events that ultimately led not only to religious pluralism within the body of the Western Christian Church, but also to the rise and dispersion of mutual acceptance among various religious groups. The fact, however, that these two things (i.e. religious pluralism and tolerance) did not emerge directly and immediately (almost as a matter of course) from the Reformation itself, is similarly undeniable. As we shall see below, we have sufficient evidence to claim that although the Reformers – including John Calvin, Theodore Beza and others, with whom this paper is partly concerned – at some point in their lives (mostly in their youth) advocated and invocated the cultivation of the spirit of tolerance, most of them refrained from upholding such positions once their situation as leaders within a newly emerged (both religious and political) community or realm became established.
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› Papp György
› 2008
› 101
› 6
› Pages: 700--708
In this short paper I would like to provide a comparative analysis of the passages concerning the passion of the Lord Jesus Christ of the Early Christian confessions (among them the Apostolic Creed1 as well), because these passages are frequently the source of theological misunderstanding and debates. The main question which urged me to do this research had occurred in relation with the Apostolic Creed. How do we say correctly: ‘I believe in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord: Who was conceived of the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried; He descended into hell…’ or ‘I believe in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord: Who was conceived of the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered, under Pontius Pilate He was crucified, died, and was buried; He descended into hell…’? I shall try to answer this question by analysing the relevant passages of the creeds which were composed in the first six centuries.
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› Buzogány Dezső
› 2008
› 101
› 6
› Pages: 709--719
Melanchton is usually considered as both a Humanist and a Reformer. Many of the books and studies written about him present him as a theologian. It is also worthwhile studying the Humanist intellectual components of his personality, since, after all, a great proportion of his works are ones which present him as a deep thinking, through intellectual, writing with sublime eloquence.