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Rezumând atitudinea terapeuților față de bunăstare, putem constata că această comunitate a ridicat la un nivel atât de înalt valorile spirituale, încât a ignorat absolut tot ce aparține vieții zilnice obișnuite. Ei s-au străduit la înmulțirea bo-găției înțelepciunii (par. 16–17, 20) și a valorilor spirituale. În rândul acestei co-munități meditațiile asupra Sfintelor Scripturi, a cărților sfinte proprii, precum și asupra înțelepciunii dumnezeiești (par. 1, 28–30, 67) sunt absolut primordiale, din care rezultă retragerea din lume și disprețuirea totală a bogăției pământești.

The “Why?” question emerges inevitably whenever a tragedy or trauma happens in our human lives. The case was hardly different in prehistoric times, in the Old Testament, or in Jesus’s era. It is an intriguing question therefore what Jesus’ attitude and approach would have been to such unexpected disasters.

A lelkészi szolgálatot vállalók életének kiemelkedő eseménye a lelkésszé avatás vagy népegyházi kifejezéssel élve, a papszentelés. A protestáns egyházak szóhasználatában megmaradt ugyan a lelkész- vagy papszentelés kifejezés, de a római katolikus egyház gyakorlatával ellentétben ez nem szentség, hanem az egyház által gyakorolt szertartás, ritus ecclesiasticus. Ebben a tanulmányomban az unitárius paprendelés (ordináció) gyakorlatáról, illetve a lelkészi oklevél és eskü szövegének változásairól értekezem röviden.

Az erdélyi protestáns egyházak a zsinatok keretében vizsgáztatták, iktatták be és bocsátották ki szolgálatra lelkészeiket. Ennek voltak igazoló okmányai azok az egyleveles lelkészszentelési bizonyítványok – latinból átvett néven formáták, amelyeket a zsinat adott ki, és amelyeknek célját a jelen tanulmányban bemutatott nyomtatvány fogalmazza meg.

Psalm-singing in the Community of Therapeutae Based on De vita contemplativa by Philo of Alexandria. The Therapeutae’s ascetic devotion is characterized not only by searching the scriptures, meditation and prayer but also by singing of hymns and psalms. Hymns were composed by the principals of the community, they were those who taught the community members to sing them and they continually enriched the hymnal with new ones. The Essenes’ and Therapeutae’s psalm-singing indicates first of all the common Old Testament origin. However these religious communities had different self-identity from that of the normative Jews and this identity required for a special psalm-poetry to be accomplished. The Therapeutae’s psalms remind us of the church psalm-tradition characterized, just like the Essene hymns, by responsive singing and refrains.