Repozitórium index

A Barth–Brunner vita a 20. század protestáns teológiai történetének egyik jelentős mozzanata. A dialektika-teológia két kimagasló alakjának 1934-ben történt replikaváltása nemcsak Karl Barth és Emil Brunner teológiai súlypontjait foglalja magában, hanem betekintést enged az 1930-as évek pezsgő teológiai és szellemtörténeti légkörébe is. Brunner értelmezésében a természeti teológiának egyik sajátos változata jelenik meg, miközben Barth az újreformátori teológia szellemében következetesen az Ige autoritásának jegyében fejti ki álláspontját. Ebben tanulmányban a vita egyes pontjainak tartalmi feltárása mellett röviden rekonstruáljuk a keletkezési körülményeket is, és kitérünk erdélyi hatástörténetére, értékelésére is.

Miklós Telegdi, a Roman Catholic bishop of the reformation period, was an important figure of his generation. The confessional guide of his Agendarius, first published in 1583 in nagyszombat (Trnava, now in Slovakia), is particular as to its structure and content. in Hungary, this is the first penitential guide that was written in a unique style, including vernacular parts and containing exhortations in a large number. The confessional includes a text discussing the strict obligation on the seal of confession as well as a confession mirror which, according to its genre, is a tool of individual self-examination. In my paper, I attempt to answer the question whether Telegdi’s confessional guide is only unique from a national point of view or also in a wider, international context.

The Disputation of Pécs (Pécsi Disputa) by György Válaszúti is a unique segment of 16th-century antitrinitarian literature. Since pécs was occupied by the Ottoman empire, Christians had to live by strict rules. They had to live outside the city walls, and they could only use one church. The dispute is a chronicle of a religious debate between the reformed citizens of tolna and the antitrinitarian citizens of Pécs.

Isa 8:16 is considered a key reference regarding the formation of the book of Isaiah and the role of prophetic disciples in this process. This article argues, however, that originally this verse had a more limited significance. The instruction to which v. 16 refers is to be identified with vv. 12-15 rather than an early ‘book’ of Isaiah. The expression ‘the instructed ones’ (of YHWH rather than the prophet) is applied to the prophet’s audience. This term reflects Isaiah’s characteristic view of prophesying as an act of instruction and prophecy as a form of teaching, and it does not presuppose the existence of any prophetic school. The view that sealing the instruction would allude to preserving prophetic teaching for the posterity is discounted here in favour of understanding the symbolic act as a metaphor from the legal sphere refering to authentication, with no inherent temporal significance.

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.

Mi, igehirdetők, akik az eseményt Isten cselekvésétől várjuk, ezt akár provokációnak is fölfoghatnánk. A prédikáció mint esemény célja minden esetben Isten megtapasztalása a hétköznapokban. Az elvárás —esemény —tapaszta­ lat hármasa jól kifejezi a prédikáció eseményének történetiségét. E három lépésben jut érvényre, hogy mit cselekszik Isten, mi történik az emberrel, és hogy miként reagál a cselekvő ember Isten tettére.

A méltóságosan és idegenűl jellemzés mellett azonban ugyanolyan találónak érezzük az „alázatosan és szív közelben" megfogalmazást is. Alázatos írás is a Kis Dogmatika.