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Ebben a tanulmányban a szerző Nicea, Nagy Konstantin és Euszébiosz szerepét vizsgálja az antijudaizmus szemszögéből, amely különbözik az antiszemitizmustól. Noha az egyháztörténészek gyakran élesen elhatárolják egymástól e két jelenséget, a szerző megkérdőjelezi, hogy a náci antiszemitizmust teljes mértékben el kellene választani a hagyományos keresztény antijudaizmustól. Az ilyen szétválasztás veszélye, hogy felmentheti az egyházakat a zsidók szenvedéseiben való közvetett vagy közvetlen felelősség alól. Miközben az antiszemitizmus továbbra is fontos ökumenikus kérdés marad, és a keresztény antijudaizmus valóban gyökeret vert már a niceai zsinat idején, Euszébiosz zsidókkal való viszonya nem tekinthető egyszerűen antijudaistának. Maga a niceai hitvallás nem tartalmaz egyértelmű antijudaista elemeket, és Nagy Konstantin 321-ben bevezetett vasárnapi istentisztelete sem utal világosan zsidóellenes motivációkra.

This paper presents the doctrine on baptism in the Haereticarum fabularum compendium of Theodoret of Cyrus. From this presentation we learn that Theodoret presents in this work a multi-contextual image of the “all-holy” baptism. The divine origin of the sacrament determined Theodoret to offer it a special place within his theological system. This special place is expressed through the setting of the chapter concerning baptism as well: it is put between the soteriological Christology and the chapters concerning Theodoret’s eschatology, the latter being an introduction to the ethical chapters.

This paper was my MA thesis, and its topic is the reception of the teaching of the Church Fathers concerning the baptism in the 1559 edition of John Calvin’s Institutes. In this thesis, I try to unfold some of the factors that determined the way Calvin used the writings of the Church Fathers in formulating his doctrine of baptism. After presenting the patristic quotations related to the ‘theoretical’ theology of baptism, I will present the quotations and references that are related rather to the practice of baptism. Here I analyse the references regarding the doctrine of baptism coming from the Donatists, the problematic of emergency baptism and women’s right to baptize. Finally, I will present the references from Inst IV 16, dealing with infant baptism. In the last chapter of this study, I will try to summarize the conclusions of the research. I hope the reader will have a clearer image on Calvin’s use of the Church Fathers’ theological heritage on baptism in the Institutes.

This volume contains selected papers from the broader field of History of Christian Doctrines, and more specifically from Patristics and Reformation studies, but also from the border between them. Most of them were written in the academic year 2014-2015, during my MA studies in the field of Patristics at the Theological University of the (vrijgemaakt) Reformed Churches in the Netherlands, in Kampen. The main topic of the MA programme was the Baptism in the Early Church, therefore the most of these papers presents various aspects of this question. In the following few paragraphs I will present short summary of each paper from this volume.