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In this dissertation I would like to present an extract from Philipp Melanchthon's work Catechesis puerilis. I translated part of the work from Latin into Hungarian. The work, Catechesis puerilis, is quite distinct from Martin Luther's well-known Small Catechism. However, their objective is the same: to teach the knowledge of the Christian faith. Philipp Melanchthon begins the catechesis with a grammar lesson for school-age children. I have divided my dissertation into five major units. The first part is about the life of Philipp Melanchthon. I will briefly talk about his childhood, his school years, and then about his personality, his family and his family life. I am interested in what Melanchthon was like as a child, who were the people who helped him, who took him in, so to speak. In the second part I talk about Melanchthon as a teacher. I was curious to know what Melanchthon was like as a teacher.

Theis paper analyses the concept of “imago Dei” based on the 6th answer of the Heidelberg Catechism. I chose this topic as it is one of the most controversial questions of systematic theology. If one browses through the dogmatic and ethical works written from the earliest period of Christianity to the most recent times, they will find a large variety of answers. All of these attempt to explain what the writer of Genesis meant by the expression na‘aśęh ’ ādām beṣalmenu kidemutenu. The Heidelberg Catechism deals with this topic in the 6th answer where the authors attested that God did not create the first human being godless and malicious. After stating that as a matter of fact, God created man according to his own image and likeness, the Catechism explains the term imago Dei in a twofold way: first, it seeks to define the inner content of the image and similitude of God, and secondly it expands upon the purpose of man given by God as the image of his creator within the creation.

This volume contains selected papers from the broader field of History of Christian Doctrines, and more specifically from Patristics and Reformation studies, but also from the border between them. Most of them were written in the academic year 2014-2015, during my MA studies in the field of Patristics at the Theological University of the (vrijgemaakt) Reformed Churches in the Netherlands, in Kampen. The main topic of the MA programme was the Baptism in the Early Church, therefore the most of these papers presents various aspects of this question. In the following few paragraphs I will present short summary of each paper from this volume.

A tanulmány célja bemutatni az 1Móz 1,26-ban olvasható kijenetés (teremtsünk embert a mi képünkre és hasonlatosságunkra) héber és görög szövege közötti kapcsolatot.

Walter Jens a kortárs német irodalom és kulturális élet kiemelkedő alakja: a retorika és klasszika-filológia egykori professzora, író, irodalomtörténész, kritikus, fordító, a teológia művelője volt. 1923 márciusában született Hamburgban, tehetős polgári családban. Az elemi iskola elvégzése után a neves Luther-tanítvány, Johannes Bugenhagen alapította gimnáziumban érettségizett 1941-ben. Súlyos asztmája miatt felmentették a háborús szolgálat alól. Ezt követően germanisztikát és klasszika-filológiát hallgatott Hamburgban és Freiburgban. 1944-ben a freiburgi egyetemen doktorált Szophoklész verseléséből, habili-tációs dolgozatának címe pedig Tacitus és a szabadság (1949, Tübingen). 1950- ben a tübingeni Eberhard-Karls Egyetem klasszika-filológia tanszékének vezetője lett, és ugyancsak ebben az évben vált tagjává a hírneves Gruppe47 irodalmi csoportosulásnak. 1963-tól a számára létesített általános retorika és klaszszika filológia tanszék vezetője.