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„Hinni annyi, mint túl lenni a halálon. De hogyan lehetünk túl, ha egyszer innen vagyunk? A présbe kényszerültek végső válasza – Jóbné idült javaslata szerint – Isten megátkozása és a pusztulás. Avagy: bizalom a határon.”

Visky ​​S. Béla gondolkodásmódja, érvrendszere és hite egyaránt meggyőző és hiteles. Logikája töretlen, és bár nyilvánvalóan nehéz, sőt kényes kérdéseket taglal, még a vele vitába szálló feleknek is el kell ismerniük a kereső, kérdező, kutató teológus tárgya iránti elkötelezettségét és kompetenciáját. Én a magam részéről a szerzővel egyetértő beszélgetőtársak közé tartozom, kiváltképpen a szakterületemet is érintő kreáció-evolúció vitát illetően; sokat tanultam leírt és elmondott gondolataiból. (Dr. Falus András immunbiológus, a MTA tagja).

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.

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.