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Deși Catehismul a ajuns până la noi din trecut, prin încărcătura sa ideatică, el este extrem de actual, prezența sa este extrem de necesară în dezbaterile metafizice și ideologice din contemporaneitate. Problema „apartenenței” credinciosului, așa cum ne-o prezintă Catehismul, nu este una pur teologică, valabilă exclusiv întrun anumit cadru religios și confesional de discuție, ci ea vizează, cu maximă gravitate, omul și condiția sa aici și acum, propunându-și să ne pună în gardă cu privire la pericolele grave care pândesc existența umană. Cea mai mare amenințare pentru om este omul însuși, cu modul său defectuos de gândire.

The idea of moving the theological education from Nagyenyed/Aiud to Kolozsvár/Cluj was born in the middle of the 19th century. Domokos Szász, former reformed priest from Kolozsvár/Cluj, and from 1885 bishop of the Transylvanian Reformed Church, was the most prominent supporter of founding the new centre of theological training in Kolozsvár/Cluj. After long debates and preparations, the construction of the new theological institute was completed in 1895. The current study presents the press debates around this event, offering an insight into press articles published in Kolozsvár/Cluj, concentrating mainly on the Erdélyi Híradó (Transylvanian News) a newspaper supporting the party opposing the moving of the theological training to Kolozsvár/Cluj. These articles throw light on the diverging positions regarding this event.

Kálvin felfogása a Szentírás ihletettségéről. Mihai Androne a galaci Dunărea de Jos Egyetem református hitű filozófiatanára vizsgálat alá vette nemcsak a kálvini inspirációtant, hanem az erre használt terminológiát is, és arra a következtetésre jutott, hogy a reformátor a verbális inspirációt vallotta, anélkül azonban, hogy háttérbe szorította volna „az emberi szerzők egyéniségét és értelmi tevékenységét. A terminológia szintjén hiányzanak bizonyos, az ihletettség típusaira vonatkozó meghatározások. Ezek hiánya, valamint a különféle elméletekre vonatkozó érvek és ellenérvek sokszínűsége élénken jelzi, hogy ugyanazon vallási hagyományon belül megszakad a múlt és a jelen közötti folyamatosság. Ebben a tekintetben a reformátori teológia az öntisztázás útján halad.

Canaanite Abominations as Presented in the Book of Deuteronomy. A Theological Evaluation. Before entering in the Promised Land the people of Israel were told not to follow the forbidden practices of the polytheistic nations (Deut 18, 9–14), to avoid all kinds of magical and superstitious practices designed to discover the will of gods, or even to compel the gods to action in certain ways. The occult, superstitions, divinisation, sorcery, spiritualism were abominations all to Yahweh and brought about His judgment. Yahweh made His will known through revelation, by the aid of His prophets, whose words would be clearly understandable to the people in contrast with the ambiguous and mysterious spells of those who worked with magic and divinisation. Israel must be blameless in regard to every form of divinisation, magic or spiritism.