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A feltámadás gondolata számunkra a keresztyén egyházi diskurzusban mindenekelőtt az újszövetségi szövegekhez kötődik, ahol része annak a központi üzenetnek, amelyet az egyház a maga missziója rendjén a világban képvisel. Az újszövetségi könyvek alapvetően kétféle értelemben beszélnek erről a témáról. Egyrészt – és ez a hangsúlyosabb – a Messiás, Jézus Krisztus fel-támadását (vagy feltámasztását) említik, másrészt, ennek mintegy kiegészítéseképpen, szükségszerű következményeképpen szólnak a Krisztusban hívők és nem hívők feltámadásáról. Ugyanakkor nem lehet figyelmen kívül hagyni, hogy a feltámadás, pontosabban a halálból életre kelés gondolata mint olyan nem volt teljesen újszerűen a pogány világban, sem az ókori zsidóságban.

A tanulmány Lk 24,31 és a 2Tim 4,17 ószövetségi idézeteinek hátterét elemzi.

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.

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.