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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.

Egyházunk mindenkor törekedett arra, hogy a Szentírás történeteit és tanítását a legfiatalabbakkal is megismertesse. Ez azt is jelenti, hogy ilyen jellegű szolgálatát is a legmegfelelőbben, „testreszabottabban” kell tennie. E dolgozat tehát a mesepszichológia néhány felismerését ismerteti és megvizsgálja, hogy miként lehet felhasználni ezeket a gyermekekkel való munka elősegítse és megkönnyítése érdekében.

Laymen Institution in the Hungarian Reformed Church District of Transylvania. It has been disputed for the last few decades the possible presence and task of the laymen in the church government of the 16–18. Centuries Hungarian Reformed Church life in Transylvania. Arguments have been brought up to prove that as soon as the 16th century the West-European type Presbyterium has already started to gain terrain in the church. The study tries to come up with arguments to prove that the democratic church government according to which the Swiss, English, German, Dutch reformed churches had been doing the government in the 16–17 centuries was not present only in the synods’ records and has not became reality in the Transylvanian church life.

The Possibilities of Spritual Care by Means of Story-telling in the Early Childhood. The first part of the essay describes the development of little children, with special attention to their spiritual growth, then we study the possibilities of pastoral counselling by storytelling (understood as a collective action), and the effect of the stories on the children’s thinking. In the second part of the essay – after a comparative analysis of a story and a bible-story – a few practical pieces of advise follow for pastors and counsellors, who deal with little children, advise on possibilities of preventing spiritual problems at such a sensitive age.

A posztmodern társadalomban egyre inkább találkozunk az egyháztól való elidegenedés gondolatával, a bizonytalanság válságba ejtő érzésével. Egy olyan korban élünk, amelyben a technika segítségével pillanatok alatt szüntethetők meg különbnél különb határok. Van azonban egy kommunikációs csatorna, melyben a prédikátor, egy másik dimenzióban keresi a felismerést, majd az ott megtapasztaltakat igyekszik minél tisztábban közvetíteni a gyülekezetének.