Repository index

A dolgozatom címe: „A neoprotestáns istentisztelet”. Azt hiszem, ez egyetemi éveim legérdekesebb témája. A mai erdélyi vallási viszonyok között a történelmi egyházainkat leginkább fenyegető veszélyt a neoprotestáns egyházak elszívó ereje jelenti. Mondhatjuk, hogy a mi gyengeségünk, hogy a hívek elhagyták az eredeti gyülekezeteiket, és ez az oka annak, hogy meg kell vizsgálnunk a baptista és adventista istentiszteleteket. Dolgozatom két fő részből áll. Az első részben a baptista istentiszteletről olvashatunk. Láthatjuk, hogy a baptista istentisztelet a legkisebb részekből hogyan válik valódi istentiszteletté. A legapróbb részletekből indultam ki, és az egyes fő részek végén az olvasót elvezetem neoprotestáns istentisztelet a posztmodern kontextusához. Dolgozatom második fő részében az adventista istentiszteletről és homiletikáról írtam. Az adventista istentisztelet jól felépített és teológiailag megalapozott. Az egész adventista istentisztelet az Istennek való hálaadás köré épül.

If we are commanded to remember the Sabbath in the Ten Commandments, why do we go to worship on Sunday? In my paper, I am seeking possible answers to this question. At the beginning of my research, I outline the position of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. In the following sections, I aim to present a biblical alternative to this position. I argue that the Sabbath institution was not known to the Jewish people before their wilderness wanderings. But here it becomes the sign of the Mosaic covenant. Since the covenant was made with the Jews, the Lord does not require foreign nations to observe the Sabbath. But God promises to make a new covenant that will not only apply to the Jews. This has been realised in Jesus Christ. He is the one to whom the Sabbath points. In light of this, we cannot cling to the shadow when the light of the world has come among us.

https://www.bookreviews.org/bookdetail.asp?TitleId=10581

Isa 7:14 is one of the most enigmatic texts of the Old Testament in which the traditional Christian exegesis has found the roots of the dogma of the virgin birth. It remains a question though whether this text indeed focuses on the female figure rathern than the son to be born. Following a brief survey of the recent state of research, in this article I address the question of the possible historical background of the text. Recent semantical investigations of the term עַלְמָה, often translated as ‘virgin’, show that neither עַלְמָה nor its synonym בְּתוּלָה imply any information about the eventual sexual experience of the named person. Both terms denote a young, unmarried woman. Regarding the identity of this woman there are four main theories: 1. the woman and his son are late eschatological figures conveying messianic messages; 2. the woman is the daughter of Zion and Immanuel is the people of Jerusalem. 3.

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.