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Deși Catehismul a ajuns până la noi din trecut, prin încărcătura sa ideatică, el este extrem de actual, prezența sa este extrem de necesară în dezbaterile metafizice și ideologice din contemporaneitate. Problema „apartenenței” credinciosului, așa cum ne-o prezintă Catehismul, nu este una pur teologică, valabilă exclusiv întrun anumit cadru religios și confesional de discuție, ci ea vizează, cu maximă gravitate, omul și condiția sa aici și acum, propunându-și să ne pună în gardă cu privire la pericolele grave care pândesc existența umană. Cea mai mare amenințare pentru om este omul însuși, cu modul său defectuos de gândire.

It is often argued that the sixteenth-century Reformation initiated a chain of events that ultimately led not only to religious pluralism within the body of the Western Christian Church, but also to the rise and dispersion of mutual acceptance among various religious groups. The fact, however, that these two things (i.e. religious pluralism and tolerance) did not emerge directly and immediately (almost as a matter of course) from the Reformation itself, is similarly undeniable. As we shall see below, we have sufficient evidence to claim that although the Reformers – including John Calvin, Theodore Beza and others, with whom this paper is partly concerned – at some point in their lives (mostly in their youth) advocated and invocated the cultivation of the spirit of tolerance, most of them refrained from upholding such positions once their situation as leaders within a newly emerged (both religious and political) community or realm became established.

Kányádi Sándor 1929-ben született az erdélyi Nagygalambfalván, földműves családban. Középiskolás éveiből hármat a székelyudvarhelyi református Kollégiumban, egyet a Római Katolikus Főgimnáziumban végzett, majd négy éven keresztül a Fémipari Líceumba járt. 1950-ben költözött Kolozsvárra, ma is ott él. A kolozsvári Bolyai Tudományegyetemen tanult irodalmat. Ezt követően versírással, többek között gyermekversek írásával, verseinek kiadásával, műfordítással foglalkozik. Több folyóiratnál dolgozott, évtizedeken keresztül. Meghatározó témái a politika és a vallás, csakúgy, mint a személyes értékek és a szeretet, az eszkatológia vagy a reménység.