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Ismeretes Kierkegaard három létmódstádiuma, az esztétikai, az etikai és a vallási, melyek közül a harmadik az akéda értelmezésére épül. Nálunk Tavaszy Sándor és Lukács György körülbelül egy időben kísérli meg Kierkegaard értelmezését. Egyik bölcselő sem találhat alibit a létezés alól, sőt – horribile dictu – az Ábrahám próbatétele alól sem. Hogyan válaszoltak e kihívásra? A kérdést kötelesek vagyunk feltenni – immár önmagunknak. A neomarxista késztetésnek (is) kitett posztmodern korban hogyan válaszol a saját egzisztenciális tájékozódásunk arra, hogy „nincs alibink a létben”?

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.

The Missiological [re]Interpretation of Abraham’s Offering, As a Potential Paradigm-Shift in [post]Modern Philosophical and Theological Reasoning. Consideration has to be taken in new view of the striking and in many ways mysterious and scandalous narrative of Abraham’s offering his son, Isaac on the mountain of Moriah. It was with Kierkegaard that this Old Testament story came to the forefront of philosophical investigations. The Danish philosopher marvelled on the obedience of the Patriarch in not even wavering (although certainly accepting the deadly burden of the angst which entails this action) to act without really understanding why Yahweh has asked for such a terrible sacrifice.