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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.

In his 1583 ritual entitled Agendarius, which was innovative in many respects in comparison to its Hungarian predecessors, Bishop Miklós Telegdi of Pécs, the administrator of the diocese of Esztergom, added sample-like sermons to the rituals of the administration of the sacraments accompanying the great turning points of life (viz. baptism, confirmation, wedding etc.). He was presumably guided chiefly by pastoral considerations. For the second edition of 1596 (published after Telegdi’s death), the editors added a second funeral sermon, clearly intended for a more educated, urban audience – judging from the scholarly Latin quotations and the general tone. A comparison of the structure and content of the two speeches provides useful conclusions as to what the ecclesiastical authorities of the time considered advisable to preach at the time of death to mourners lacking basic schooling and what to the more learned audience.

My study approaches Unitarian sermon literature from the perspective of church discipline. There are several reasons for this: 1) Historical records of reception are scarce because in the early modern age, only a handful of Unitarian sermons could be published. 2) it was uncommon among Unitarian preachers to use theoretical works (ars concionandi/praedicandi) until the end of the 17th century, they learned instead by observing the written and oral practices of their colleagues. 3) Because of the medium of the manuscript, most early modern Unitarian sermons did not survive beyond the 17th–18th century. Therefore, in our exploration of the rules and ideals of sermon literature as well as the attitudes of followers, preachers, and schoolmasters to the genre, we are forced to rely on inferences based on the norms, especially the offences recorded in (ecclesiastical) court protocols.

Varga Zsigmond életútja, sorsa azért különleges, mert a magyar történelem egyik viharos szakaszának hamisítatlan lenyomatát láthatjuk benne. Ha visszatekintünk a számára adatott hét évtizedre, és személyes sorsát ennek az időkeretnek históriájában szemléljük, akkor ez az időszak a magyar kultúrtörténet egyik utolsó fénykorát, az első világháborút, a két világháború közötti éveket, a második nagy világégést és egy újabb sötét kor kezdetét öleli fel.

Dolgozatomban a homoszexualitás kérdéskörével foglalkoztam. Megvizsgáltam a múltat és egy átfogó betekintést próbáltam nyújtani a jelenlegi helyzetre, ami napról napra változik ugyan, de a sajtó és a média segítségével lépést lehet tartani. Vizsgálódásom szerepet kapott a perspektívák és következmények megvilágítása is. Vizsgálódásom tárgyát képezte a homoszexualitás pszichológiai, biológiai, jogi, és bibliai háttere és megállapításai is. Megállapíthatjuk, hogy nem betegség, nem bűncselekmény, és véleményem szerint nem is bűn az, ha valakinek más a szexuális orientációja. A keresztény felekezetek állásfoglalása is eltér egymástól, de a leginkább uralkodó elv mégis az elítélés és a bűnnek titulálás. Az unitáriusoknak nincs egy mindenki által elfogadott álláspontja. Szerintem mi unitáriusokként, szabadelvű keresztényekként ki kell állnunk amellett, hogy ők is Isten ugyanolyan gyermekei, mint a heteroszexuálisok, példát mutatva ezzel mindenki számára.