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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.

Examining Some Ethical Issues in the Context of War -- One of the main questions of this paper is whether the arguments in defence of war can be coupled with equal concern for the laws of war. While a permissive reading of the classical, theological just war tradition draws a number of conclu-sions that can be debated, this essay has attempted to draw attention to the fact that Augustine's questions of disordered political commitments (loves) are insep-arable from the more familiar questions of “right reason”, “right power” and “right intention”. Augustine’s reading reminds us that political desires still determine not only decisions to enter into armed conflict, but also the application of the inter-national law. On the one hand, politics is a means of influencing the dominant powers, a means of spreading their values, but also a means of holding them to account. It is also the voice of the oppressed and the vulnerable.

Isa 8:16 is considered a key reference regarding the formation of the book of Isaiah and the role of prophetic disciples in this process. This article argues, however, that originally this verse had a more limited significance. The instruction to which v. 16 refers is to be identified with vv. 12-15 rather than an early ‘book’ of Isaiah. The expression ‘the instructed ones’ (of YHWH rather than the prophet) is applied to the prophet’s audience. This term reflects Isaiah’s characteristic view of prophesying as an act of instruction and prophecy as a form of teaching, and it does not presuppose the existence of any prophetic school. The view that sealing the instruction would allude to preserving prophetic teaching for the posterity is discounted here in favour of understanding the symbolic act as a metaphor from the legal sphere refering to authentication, with no inherent temporal significance.

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.

A Registres du Conseil de Genève fennmaradt jegyzőkönyvei szerint csaknem tíz esztendővel a nagy reformátor, Kálvin János halála után, 1575. május 17-én Jean Trembley, a Saint Gervais és Saint Pierre gyülekezet lelkipásztora viharos hangvételű prédikációt mondott el, amelyben a fiatal városállam morális életét Sodoma és Gomora lakosságának romlottságához hasonlította. Igehirdetése városszerte visszatetszést keltett. Polgárok százai vonultak az utcára, és felmentését követelték. Kérdés azonban, hogy mi váltotta ki a Béza Theodor családjához is közel álló, „lánglelkű” prédikátor határozott fellépését, hiszen a helyi lakosság erkölcsi helyzetét és magaviseletét vizsgáló források szerint Genfben csak elvétve fordultak elő a szodómiával kapcsolatos bűnesetek.

Dolgozatom célja nem az, hogy állást foglaljon a homoszexualitás mellett, vagy ellen. Célom, hogy mindazok, akik elolvassák, egy általános képet kapjanak a homoszexualitásról.

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.