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Este o senzație teribilă pentru predicatorii practicanți să constate că metodele testate și ani de zile funcționale par să fie învechite, iar tipurile de predicări care păreau altădată eficiente sunt acum întâmpinate cu priviri plictisite și puterea lor de motivare de odinioară pare să fi dispărut. În astfel de momente, pastorii și specialiștii în omiletică încep să caute idei noi și inovatoare, pentru a putea pre-dica cu succes Cuvântul lui Dumnezeu. În bisericile protestante mainstream americane (bisericile metodiste, epis-copale, lutherane, prezbiteriene, etc.) această perioadă a fost numită „turnura narativă”. Părea că acesta ar fi fost răspunsul adecvat la multele probleme din predicarea americană care – s-a spus – a intrat în criză în anii '60 și '70.

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.

The studies of this volume were presented originally at a Brueggemann-conference in the Protestant Theological Institute of Cluj-Napoca, Romania (April 24-25, 2012). This symposium was part of a study week organised by ministers from The Netherlands and Transylvania in Györgyfalva, near Cluj-Napoca, on the eve of the publication of the Hungarian translation of one of Brueggemann's most significant books, the Theology of the Old Testament.

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Isa 7:14 is one of the most enigmatic texts of the Old Testament in which the traditional Christian exegesis has found the roots of the dogma of the virgin birth. It remains a question though whether this text indeed focuses on the female figure rathern than the son to be born. Following a brief survey of the recent state of research, in this article I address the question of the possible historical background of the text. Recent semantical investigations of the term עַלְמָה, often translated as ‘virgin’, show that neither עַלְמָה nor its synonym בְּתוּלָה imply any information about the eventual sexual experience of the named person. Both terms denote a young, unmarried woman. Regarding the identity of this woman there are four main theories: 1. the woman and his son are late eschatological figures conveying messianic messages; 2. the woman is the daughter of Zion and Immanuel is the people of Jerusalem. 3.

In studies on the composition of prophetic literature, the larger textual layers reinterpreting earlier texts, the so-called Fortschreibungen, received much attention. It is well-known that beside these larger literary elaborations prophetic books also contain shorter explanatory interpolations, often called glosses, which intend to clarify a particular imagery of the prophecy (e.g., Isa 9:14). A systematic reading of these short annotations has been neglected, however, in studying the formation of prophetic books. The present article reconsiders the Isaiah-Memoir from this perspective. It identifies editorial interpolations in three distinct pericopes, Isa 8:2, 8:6-7a and 8:23b. It is argued here that the identification of such explanatory additions is the key to understanding notorious textual complexities. Moreover, it points out that these interpolations tend to expose recognisable patterns and common hermeneutical principles.

Ez a téma és kérdésfelvetés korántsem új keletű – egyébként mi az, ami még annak számíthat a mai teológiában? Az egyház- és teológiatörténet során, amióta az Ószövetség bekerült a képbe, sokan és sokféle módon keresték már a választ a fenti kérdésre, és ezek eredménye számtalan könyvben és tanulmányban áll előttünk. Mindeközben azonban szakmai fórumokon, teológiai vitákban, gyülekezetekben, baráti beszélgetésekben, egyházi sajtóban, elektronikus levelezőlistákon megjelenő Ószövetséggel kapcsolatos negatív megnyilvánulások jelzik azt, hogy bár a téma nem újszerű, mégis igen aktuális marad.

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.

Mindennapi életünk, kultúránk, történelmünk, a magunkról való gondolkodás, az önreflexió alapvetően elbeszélő jellegű, azaz narratív. Mi emberek narratívában képzeljük el saját világunkat, életünket, és identitásunkat. A múltunkra való visszatekintés, a jelen és a jövőkép értelmezése, az időiség struktúrája egyértelműen történetszerű létmegértéshez vezet minket. Nagy ereje van a történeteknek, talán az egyik olyan hatalom, amit az idő vasfoga nem kezdett ki. A narratíva egy olyan eszköz, ami minden kultúrában és minden generációban érvényesülni tud. Azonban a narratív gondolkodás már túlnőtt az egyszerű történetek értelmezésén és
rendszerezésén.

Dolgozatomban ízelítőt szeretnék nyújtani a homiletikának erről a számunka oly távolinak tűnő, de sok újdonságot, érdekességet és a magyar unitárius homiletikával számos hasonlóságot tartalmazó oldaláról. A négy nagy fejezet során röviden ismertetni szeretném az amerikai unitárius univerzalista vallás és ezen belül a XX. századi amerikai unitárius homiletika történetét, egy ismertetőt szeretnék nyújtani az ehhez fűződő unitárius istentisztelet részeiről, formáiról, valamint elméletéről és dolgozatom központi elemeként meg szeretném ismertetni az óceánon túli prédikációírás és –mondás rejtelmeit. Végül, mivel, ahogy látni fogja a kedves olvasó a homiletikát nem lehet elválasztani a liturgikától, dolgozatomba liturgikai elemeket is beépítettem, ezekkel próbálva egy világosabb képet nyújtani arról, hogy mi képezi az amerikai unitárius vallás alapját.