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My colleague Kees van der Kooi will say something about the “what” of our book, the substance matter, whereas I will try to explain its “why” and “how”: why did we write this book, and how did we do it?

In this article we shortly introduce T. S. Eliot, noting some major themes he addresses, particularly in relation to religious faith and the search for meaning in life. In the second and third sections our article concentrates on the 1934 church pageant, called ‘The Rock’. This drama was only published once and is hard to find. However, the poetry Eliot included in the drama, called ‘Choruses from The Rock’, have been reprinted and included in various volumes so that these are readily available. But among those people who have read some or all of the ten Choruses from The Rock, very few have ever found a copy of the play in which these poems were situated.1 We present quotations from the ten choruses, with a few annotations at times concerning the context. In the fourth section we look at various aspects of Eliot’s Christology as found in The Rock.

Kurt Jakob Rüetschi megemlékezik Tőkés István református teológusról.

Ez nem zengzetes új fordítás, nem is az evangélium versbe szedése; hanem annak lehető legeredetibb alakjába való visszaállítása szöveg, versforma és szerkezet tekintetében egyaránt. A szabad verselésnek ez a formája, mely napjainkban a modern irodalomban újból kezd tért hódítani, a római császárság korában volt virágzó. De a bibliai irodalomban még régibb, mert úgy tekinthető, mint az ősi prófétai verselés egyenes leszármazottja.