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The spiritual atmosphere can be pure and impure, life nourishing or stifling. The physical atmosphere can also be pure or polluted, life nourishing or stifling. In this context pure air means the abundance of man’s physical living conditions, the pureness and the absence of harm in the whole ecological system, ensuring man’s living space. It also means the balance, which has to exist between the food- and energy resources of our planet for the daily needs of its 7 billion inhabitants. There is a highly tense struggle going on for clean air, habitable earth in ecological as well as economic aspects. Our thesis: it is significant in which spiritual medium this battle takes place. The mere spiritual medium can contribute towards the solution of the problems, which the more and more polluted physical and economic climate brings about.

Huszti Andrást, Nádudvari Pétert és Makfalvi Józsefet a szakirodalom az univerzalista tanok vagy más néven a remonstráns teológia erdélyi követőjeként tartja számon. Huszti András és Nádudvari Péter története többé-kevésbé már feldolgozott, de ezekből éppen teológiai tévelygésük pontos rekonstruálása maradt ki. Makfalvi Józsefről viszont keveset tudunk. Róla csupán néhány közlemény jelent meg, s így neve szinte ismeretlen a szakirodalomban.

The purpose of this study is twofold. First, it sets the historical context in which Aphrahat wrote his Demonstrations and deals with the interesting relationship between his writings, ‘against the Jews’ and the Sassanian persecution of Christians. It also treats his refutation of the Jewish charges. Secondly, it addresses his ‘unique’ view of christology which is not in line with the Nicene decision concerning one aspect yet at the same time it is congruent with it. The paper also tries to point out that his view on christology was ‘unique’ but not exceptional in the Early Church.