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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.

Pál apostol az 1Kor 15,20-ban azt írja Jézusról, hogy feltámadása által az „el-aludtak első zsengéje lett”, azaz az örök életre való feltámadás első példája. Az itt megjelenő ἀπαρχή kifejezés az aratás első termését jelöli, a leghamarabb beérő kalászokat. A 15. fejezetben az apostol a feltámadás folyamatát a vetés és az új növény növekedésének képével érzékelteti (36–37. versek). Ehhez a képhez zökkenőmentesen simul az első kalász, az újzsenge képe, amely mintegy a végeredmény felől utal a későbbi metafora értelmére. Feltűnő azonban, hogy az újzsenge bemutatása különleges szereppel bír az Ószövetségben, és külön ünnepként szerepel az egyik ünnepkatalógusban, 3Móz 23,9–14-ben. A Septuagintában itt az 1Kor 15-ből Jézussal kapcsolatban használt ἀπαρχή „újzsenge” kifejezést találjuk. Felmerül tehát a kérdés, hogy vajon nincs-e valamilyen mélyebb kapcsolat az ószövetségi rendelkezés és Pál apostol képes beszéde között?

Theis paper analyses the concept of “imago Dei” based on the 6th answer of the Heidelberg Catechism. I chose this topic as it is one of the most controversial questions of systematic theology. If one browses through the dogmatic and ethical works written from the earliest period of Christianity to the most recent times, they will find a large variety of answers. All of these attempt to explain what the writer of Genesis meant by the expression na‘aśęh ’ ādām beṣalmenu kidemutenu. The Heidelberg Catechism deals with this topic in the 6th answer where the authors attested that God did not create the first human being godless and malicious. After stating that as a matter of fact, God created man according to his own image and likeness, the Catechism explains the term imago Dei in a twofold way: first, it seeks to define the inner content of the image and similitude of God, and secondly it expands upon the purpose of man given by God as the image of his creator within the creation.

This volume contains selected papers from the broader field of History of Christian Doctrines, and more specifically from Patristics and Reformation studies, but also from the border between them. Most of them were written in the academic year 2014-2015, during my MA studies in the field of Patristics at the Theological University of the (vrijgemaakt) Reformed Churches in the Netherlands, in Kampen. The main topic of the MA programme was the Baptism in the Early Church, therefore the most of these papers presents various aspects of this question. In the following few paragraphs I will present short summary of each paper from this volume.

A tanulmány célja bemutatni az 1Móz 1,26-ban olvasható kijenetés (teremtsünk embert a mi képünkre és hasonlatosságunkra) héber és görög szövege közötti kapcsolatot.