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Colecția Blaj a Bibliotecii Filialei Academiei Române din Cluj reprezintă un important vestigiu cultural al greco-catolicismului din Ardeal. Nucleul bibliotecii este format din colecția mănăstirii basilitane ctitorite în 1747 cu hramul Sfintei Treimi. În același an a început activitatea seminarului diecezan. Se pare că cele două instituții au avut o bibliotecă comună. Cărțile au fost inventariate pentru prima dată în 1752. Materialul prezentat face parte dintr-o cercetare mai amplă, care vizează descrierea operelor teologilor protestanți din secolul XVI păstrate în colecțiile istorice din Ardeal. În Colecția Blaj a Bibliotecii Filialei Cluj a Academiei Române se găsesc 421 de tipărituri din secolul XVI.

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.

Bemutatásunkban – a pillanatnyilag rendelkezésünkre álló eszközök segítségével – röviden ismertetjük és vázoljuk azon értelmezésre szoruló témákat, amelyek nélkül elképzelhetetlen annak az egyesületnek a megismerése, amely az Árkádia Fényeinek Spirituális Egyháza címen jegyeztetett be jogerősen Magyarországon a Fővárosi Bíróságon 2005. augusztus 11-én. Úgyszintén Romániában, Erdélyben is sor került a bejegyzésre, azáltal, hogy a minimális 300 romániai lakos belépése a hitközösségbe megtörtént. E bejegyzés által az új szervezetnek rendszerezett lehetősége nyílt papi tevékenységeinek hivatalos keretek közötti elvégzésére, lelki gyakorlatainak tartására, Magyarország, illetve az Európai Unió egész területén.