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This paper is an expanded and somewhat more elaborated version of an earlier study in which I tried to give a general overview on the word-usage concerning the passion of Jesus Christ in the early Christian creeds. The purpose of this short paper is in part to give a comparative presentation of the sufferings of Lord Jesus Christ in the Western Creeds, and in part I also try to define the role of mentioning the name of Pontius Pilatus in them.

The spiritual atmosphere can be pure and impure, life nourishing or stifling. The physical atmosphere can also be pure or polluted, life nourishing or stifling. In this context pure air means the abundance of man’s physical living conditions, the pureness and the absence of harm in the whole ecological system, ensuring man’s living space. It also means the balance, which has to exist between the food- and energy resources of our planet for the daily needs of its 7 billion inhabitants. There is a highly tense struggle going on for clean air, habitable earth in ecological as well as economic aspects. Our thesis: it is significant in which spiritual medium this battle takes place. The mere spiritual medium can contribute towards the solution of the problems, which the more and more polluted physical and economic climate brings about.

A keresztyének társadalmi felelősségéről Péter első levele az ún. házitáblákban beszél, amelyek a levél második részét képezik (2,11– 4,11). Ezekben az intelmekben összefoglalja azokat az erkölcsi elveket, illetve magatartásformákat, amelyek a keresztyének felelős életvitelére vonatkoznak. Az erkölcsi tanításokat csak akkor érthetjük helyesen, ha figyelembe vesszük azt a szövegkörnyezetet, amelybe a levélíró beágyazta azokat.