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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.

Az 1990-es évek krízishelyzete Kelet-Közép-Európában, s így Erdélyben is bizonyos szempontból hasonló az 1930-as évek Amerikájához, ahol a válság hirtelen jött. A lényeges különbség a mi esetünkben az, hogy mi alkalmazkodtunk ezekhez a szociális kedvezőtlenségekhez. A posztszocialista instabilitás életmóddá vált, és nem pusztán túlélése a hirtelen jött, váratlan helyzetnek. Nincs semmiféle stratégia, sem hosszú távú tervezés, a globális piac függőségében élő posztszocialista államok számára rendkívül természetes az állandó készenlét. Az egyetlen stratégia talán, ami az elmúlt harminc évben az emberekben kialakult: mindennap készenlétben állni és várni, hogy valami történni fog.

A koronavírus-járvány következményeit értékelő magyar nyelvű teológiai, ekléziológiai, liturgiai szakirodalom a járvány megjelenése óta egyre gyarapodik. A közölt tanulmányok átfogó teológiai értékeléseket, szempontokat, véleményeket, észrevételeket, reflexiókat, kritikákat fogalmaztak meg a koronavírus-járvány alatti vallásos és egyházi élet két fontos témájával kapcsolatosan: a távistentiszteletek (online istentiszteletek) és az úrvacsora kérdésköreit, valamint az ezekhez kapcsolódó problémaköröket is érintették.

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.