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Not all pastor's children remain close to the Church, despite the fact that they grew up in a religious environment and had the example and model of Christian living. The theoretical objective of my thesis is to explore pastor's children's motivations for living a pious life. For there can be external and internal motivation. The external motivation is when the pastor's child practices godly living and godly speaking, but not from an internal motivation, not from faith. They are not living a godly lifestyle because they feel they need to and because it is of value to them, but they are just living up to expectations. They behave and speak as expected by their parents, their congregation or their environment. They live godly lives either for external recognition and reward, such as the recognition of the church community or the pride of their parents, or perhaps to earn God's approval.

In the past decades, research has raised the idea of a theology of the Septuagint (LXX) on various occasions. Important works were recently published on this topic in the Handbuch zur Septuaginta and the Septuagint and Cognate Studies series. The general theological tendencies of the LXX are identified by scholars in eschatology, messianism, anti-anthropomorphism and angelology. These tend to all be regarded as further developments of the theology of the Hebrew Bible (HB). However, one can trace the evolution of these and other main topics of the LXX in the New Testament (NT) and in the later apostolic writings as well. Based on three concise case studies, I point out the evolution of theological ideas from the HB through the LXX up to the NT in this paper.

Tatai Ferenc debreceni lelkipásztor műveiről, alapítványáról, hazai és svájci kapcsolatairól; továbbá 1742-es levele Beck professzorhoz és 1755-ös levele Szent Gallenbe. Temetési beszéde Domokos Márton debreceni főbíró fölött. Heidelbergi Káté erdélyi hatástörténetének kutatása során feltűnik, hogy Tatai Ferenc neve, aki „igen kíváló ember” és termékeny teológus, debreceni lelkész és egyházmegyei jegyző, esperes és püspök nem szerepel az 1752-es, kolozsvári Catechismusi Házi-Kints című kátémagyarázat címoldalán. Belső egyházi körökben, legalábbis a debreceni konzisztóriumban és a városi tanács tagjai között azonban közismert volt az a tény, hogy ő a hírneves Catechismusi Házi-Kints (a továbbiakban CHK) fordítója.