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Este o senzație teribilă pentru predicatorii practicanți să constate că metodele testate și ani de zile funcționale par să fie învechite, iar tipurile de predicări care păreau altădată eficiente sunt acum întâmpinate cu priviri plictisite și puterea lor de motivare de odinioară pare să fi dispărut. În astfel de momente, pastorii și specialiștii în omiletică încep să caute idei noi și inovatoare, pentru a putea pre-dica cu succes Cuvântul lui Dumnezeu. În bisericile protestante mainstream americane (bisericile metodiste, epis-copale, lutherane, prezbiteriene, etc.) această perioadă a fost numită „turnura narativă”. Părea că acesta ar fi fost răspunsul adecvat la multele probleme din predicarea americană care – s-a spus – a intrat în criză în anii '60 și '70.

A bibliai szövegnek az egyház igehirdetésében betöltött pozícióját évszázadokra meghatározta a Sola Scriptura reformátori princípium. A prédikáció a Bibliából indul ki és oda tér(ít) vissza. Thomas G. Long és Wilfried Engemann elméletei arra mutatnak rá, hogy elégtelen és kevés, ha csak ennyiben merül ki az egyház biblikus igehirdetése. Olyan elméletekre van szükség, amelyek korszerűen és szakszerűen értelmezik a biblikusságot, mint homiletikai kategóriát és amelyek leleplezik a Sola Scriptura pátosza mögött meghúzódó paradigmaváltásokat. A szintézis olyan homiléták bemutatására törekedett, akik tisztánlátással és megfelelő reflexióval segítenek abban, hogy a paradigmaváltásokat értelmezni tudjuk. A német nyelvterületen tevékenykedő Wilfried Engemann a hit általi élet kontextusában szemléli a homiletikai háromszög instanciáit, jelesül az ige-igehirdető-gyülekezet hármasát, az angolszász Thomas G. Long pedig a Jézussal való találkozás vonatkozásában.

In his 1583 ritual entitled Agendarius, which was innovative in many respects in comparison to its Hungarian predecessors, Bishop Miklós Telegdi of Pécs, the administrator of the diocese of Esztergom, added sample-like sermons to the rituals of the administration of the sacraments accompanying the great turning points of life (viz. baptism, confirmation, wedding etc.). He was presumably guided chiefly by pastoral considerations. For the second edition of 1596 (published after Telegdi’s death), the editors added a second funeral sermon, clearly intended for a more educated, urban audience – judging from the scholarly Latin quotations and the general tone. A comparison of the structure and content of the two speeches provides useful conclusions as to what the ecclesiastical authorities of the time considered advisable to preach at the time of death to mourners lacking basic schooling and what to the more learned audience.

My study approaches Unitarian sermon literature from the perspective of church discipline. There are several reasons for this: 1) Historical records of reception are scarce because in the early modern age, only a handful of Unitarian sermons could be published. 2) it was uncommon among Unitarian preachers to use theoretical works (ars concionandi/praedicandi) until the end of the 17th century, they learned instead by observing the written and oral practices of their colleagues. 3) Because of the medium of the manuscript, most early modern Unitarian sermons did not survive beyond the 17th–18th century. Therefore, in our exploration of the rules and ideals of sermon literature as well as the attitudes of followers, preachers, and schoolmasters to the genre, we are forced to rely on inferences based on the norms, especially the offences recorded in (ecclesiastical) court protocols.

Az ember az Istennel való együtt járásában létezik („létrejön”, pontosabban identitása ebben „jön létre”), következésképpen mind a lelkigondozó, mind a gondozottja identitása is, antropológiai értelemben (mint szerény kalauz / kísérő a klienssel való együtt-haladása sajátos történetében), e dinamikus reláció kontextusában valósul meg, azaz létezik, és abszolút értelemben ezt nevezhetjük terápiának, illetve bármilyen legitim lelkigondozói intervenció sajátos útjának és a lelki „egészség” teológiailag indokolt helyreállításának (azaz Istenképűségünk eszkatológiailag anticipált helyreállításának). A kliens gyógyulása ugyanígy „jön létre” és válik apró emberi története részévé az „Isten nagy történetének”, és ezzel mintegy a szabadulástörténetnek konkrét részesévé.

This article argues that Isaiah's so-called ‘refrain poem’ (Kehrvergedicht) in Isa. 9.7–20 is a composite text, going back to two early prophecies with different concerns. Isaiah 9.7–17* focused originally on the arrogant refusal of the divine word, while Isa. 9.18–20* reflected on the chaotic social circumstances in Samaria in the eighth century. The refrains in vv. 9,11cd, 16ef and 20cd were added to these two already connected prophecies at a later stage. The theological summary in v. 12 is yet another addition, closely affiliated with 5.24–25. Unlike v. 12, the refrains do not have the repentance of Israel in view, nor its final destruction, but the fall of Assyria in Isa. 10.5–15, 24–27. The refrains support the theory that the Isaianic collection was formed by means of reusing, restructuring and reinterpreting earlier material. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0309089216690385

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.

Ötven éve megjelent egy rövid homiletikai könyvecske, ami mérföldkőnek bizonyult a homiletika történetében. Címe: Mint aki hatalom nélkül, szerzője pedig Fred B. Craddock. Fél évszázad elegendő távolság ahhoz, hogy értékelni tudjam azt a homiletikai koncepciót, ami a narratív paradigma alapján épült. fel. Ez az értékelés természetesen magyar kontextusból nézve készül, ahol a narratív prédikáció mindig is csak egy messziről jött vendégnek bizonyult az elmúlt ötven évben.