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Előadásom tárgya a filozófia és teológia különállása, illetve az átfedések és átjárási lehetőségek vizsgálata Böhm Károly és Tavaszy Sándor gondolkodásának viszonyában. Vizsgálódásom első részében röviden körvonalazom Böhm Károly szellemi életútját, kiemelve azt, hogy miként alakult a teológiával kapcsolatos álláspontja, és hogy vannak-e életművében teológiai motívumok. Tavaszy gondolkodásának értelmezésében arra keresek választ, hogy a böhmi ismeretelméleti és értékelméleti szemlélettel való konfrontálódása után hogyan alakult szemlélete filozófia és teológia viszonyáról. Mit jelent, és milyen filozófiai és teológiai felelősséget hordoz Tavaszy idealizmuskritikája? Milyen szempontból jelent korrekciót az idealizmussal szemben az egzisztencializmus? Miben ragadható meg Karl Barth dialektikai teológiájának filozófiai tartalma, és hogyan kapcsolódik ez a teológiai gondolatkör a Böhmnél kimutatott motívumokhoz?

Humanity is constantly evolving, which exerts a powerful impact on religion and the church as well. The postmodern era, which spread from the second half of the 20th century, presents a new direction that the church must respond to. The research examines how the gospel can be effectively conveyed in the postmodern world, with special consideration for the relationship between youth and the church, as well as the resulting challenges and opportunities. Based on my university studies and experiences, my viewpoint is that postmodern thinking essentially questions traditional values and systems. It emphasizes diversity, relativism, and subjectivism. This new approach shapes people's worldviews and influences their everyday decisions. The central premise of the paper is that the church has long functioned as a proponent of absolute truth and universal values.

Isa 8:16 is considered a key reference regarding the formation of the book of Isaiah and the role of prophetic disciples in this process. This article argues, however, that originally this verse had a more limited significance. The instruction to which v. 16 refers is to be identified with vv. 12-15 rather than an early ‘book’ of Isaiah. The expression ‘the instructed ones’ (of YHWH rather than the prophet) is applied to the prophet’s audience. This term reflects Isaiah’s characteristic view of prophesying as an act of instruction and prophecy as a form of teaching, and it does not presuppose the existence of any prophetic school. The view that sealing the instruction would allude to preserving prophetic teaching for the posterity is discounted here in favour of understanding the symbolic act as a metaphor from the legal sphere refering to authentication, with no inherent temporal significance.

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.

A Kolozsvári Protestáns Teológiai Intézet (KPTI) Kutatóközpontjának most megjelent kötetét a hatvanötödik életévét betöltött dr. Rezi Elek teológiai tanárnak ajánljuk.