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My interest in the topic of suffering has been stimulated essentially by the experiences from the pastoral visits and pastoral encounters in a Transylvanian congregation where I work as a pastor. The interchange with the believers and their hardship lead me to conclude that many homes along the streets there are houses of suffering, many life-stories are stories of suffering. Often the suffering encountered at the heart of the believers’ home is something what makes them to “live as if they will never die and die as if they had never lived”. Nevertheless, accompanying the believers in their search for meaning and comfort I realized that they continue to believe in God despite suffering, impoverishment and oppression. But what I often experience is a struggle with ethical shortcuts in the midst of suffering.

Az 1Pt 3,18–24 perikópa rengeteg gondot okozott és okoz ma is az exegétáknak. Ez a rövid szövegrész olyan témát érint, amely kijelentésében egyedi az Újszövetségben, tartalmában pedig rengeteg vallástörténeti, ószövetségi és intertestamentális vonatkozású gondolatot érint, és mindezek mellett még a kezdődő dogmafejlődés is fontos szerepet kap értelmezésében.