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Pavel din Tars a intrat în istoria creștinismului ca apostol al neamurilor. A fost un predicator neobosit și un învățător inspirat al Evangheliei lui Dumnezeu, care și-a îndeplinit misiunea cu cea mai mare fervoare și devotament necondiționat până la sfârșitul vieții sale. Cu povestea sa de viață fascinantă și cu experiența sa considerabilă în plantarea și consolidarea bisericilor creștine, el se află astăzi în fața noastră ca un om demn de atenția fiecărui slujitor. În ciuda unicității sale, el ne stă înainte în multe feluri ca un exemplu de înțelepciune, sobrietate, puritate, răbdare, altruism, moderație, fidelitate și dragoste frățească sinceră.

Valentinus and His Teaching in the Light of Modern Research and Ancient Christian Heresiology -- The first part of this paper contains a summary of the life and teachings of Valentinus written by Bernadett Szűcs, in which the author sketches the most important aspects of this complex topic based on the early Christian primary sources harmonized with the state of the modern research. As an appendix to this introduction, the second part of this paper, written by György Papp contains the first Hungarian translation (accompanied by the original Greek text from the recently published critical edition) of one of the primary sources with a short introduction, to the text: the chapter about Valentinus in the Haereticarum fabularum compendium of Theodoret of Cyrus.

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.

Weather imagery plays a major role in Hosea. Hosea 2 recalls the image of an unfaithful wife; Hosea 4:2–3 describes the withering of the land; in 6:3; 10:12; 14:6, the several types of precipitation draw attention to the utterance of YHWH or the requested righteousness; in 9:10.13.16; 10:1; 13:5; 14:6.8, Israel is symbolised by different plants that blossom and wither, depending on their relation to Yhwh. In all of these instances, weather phenomena contribute to these images. In this article, I try to catalogue and evaluate the metaphors and concepts to look at how meteorological images convey theological and historical messages, and vice versa how historical events or sociological procedures demonstrate their consequences in nature, especially in the weather. It seems that weather imagery is used to describe the consequences of idolatry, injustice and false politics.

Amikor a Dán 4-et olvasom, arra gondolok, hogy milyen módon is függ össze a politika és a politikus. Talán úgy, hogy van egy fogalom a maga jellemzőivel, amelyekből kirajzolódik egy kép, és ebbe illeszkedik bele egy személy, aki a politikát esetleg foglalkozásként műveli, és abból él. Ennek a mércének valahol az egyház is megfelel. Mert nem mindegy, milyen az egyház, milyen jellemzői vannak, és az sem mindegy, hogy milyenek annak tagjai, illetve hogy a fogalom miként határozza meg azokat, akik azt képviselik, és rajtuk keresztül milyen kép alakul ki mások szemléletében. Ebben az összefüggésben az egyházpolitika fogalmának is van üzenete. A fogalom arra utal, hogy valamilyen módon kapcsolat áll fenn az egyház és a politika között. Akármilyen is legyen a politika, abban ott van az egyház, annak tagjai meghatározhatják a politikát, nem beszélve azokról, akik közöttünk élnek, és politikusként egyházi emberek.

Die Griechischen Christlichen Schriftdsteller der ersten Jahrhunderte. Band 26. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2020, ISBN-10: 3110671360; ISBN-10: 3110671360, 237 old.

Mindkét szövegezés egyaránt fontos az egyéni kegyesség gyakorlásában éppúgy, mint a gyülekezeti közösség használatában. A vizsgálódás azért időszerű, mert az 1998. évi új Ágendáskönyv: A Magyar Református Egyház istentiszteleti rendtartása a hagyományostól többé-kevésbé eltérő fordítást tartalmaz s ez mindmáig sok egyháztagot zavar mind imaéletében, mind pedig hite megvallásában.