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Colecția Blaj a Bibliotecii Filialei Academiei Române din Cluj reprezintă un important vestigiu cultural al greco-catolicismului din Ardeal. Nucleul bibliotecii este format din colecția mănăstirii basilitane ctitorite în 1747 cu hramul Sfintei Treimi. În același an a început activitatea seminarului diecezan. Se pare că cele două instituții au avut o bibliotecă comună. Cărțile au fost inventariate pentru prima dată în 1752. Materialul prezentat face parte dintr-o cercetare mai amplă, care vizează descrierea operelor teologilor protestanți din secolul XVI păstrate în colecțiile istorice din Ardeal. În Colecția Blaj a Bibliotecii Filialei Cluj a Academiei Române se găsesc 421 de tipărituri din secolul XVI.

Miklós Telegdi, a Roman Catholic bishop of the reformation period, was an important figure of his generation. The confessional guide of his Agendarius, first published in 1583 in nagyszombat (Trnava, now in Slovakia), is particular as to its structure and content. in Hungary, this is the first penitential guide that was written in a unique style, including vernacular parts and containing exhortations in a large number. The confessional includes a text discussing the strict obligation on the seal of confession as well as a confession mirror which, according to its genre, is a tool of individual self-examination. In my paper, I attempt to answer the question whether Telegdi’s confessional guide is only unique from a national point of view or also in a wider, international context.

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.

A 18. századi református kollégiumi éneklés sajátos szerepet töltött be a magyar dal- és kórusirodalom történetének alakulásában. Bár az énektanításra és a zenei ismeretek elsajátítására már korábban is nagy hangsúlyt fektettek ezekben az iskolákban, mégis a 17. századi énekkarok megszervezésével, majd a Maróthi György által bevezetett többszólamú zsoltárénekléssel, az 1743-ban megjelentett Goudimel-féle négyszólamú zsoltároskönyv kiadásával új irányt vett az egyházi, ugyanakkor a világi magyar zenei élet is.

A reformáció ötszáz éves jubileumát övező nagyszabású emlékünnepélyek során gyakran elhangzott az a megállapítás, hogy ez az első olyan jellegű évforduló, amely az ökumené jegyében zajlott: a történelmi egyházak együtt idézték meg a reformáció kezdetét, a wittenbergi tézisek kibocsátását, és ugyanekkor az egyházzal együtt emlékezett a politikum is. Belelapozva a jubileumi ünnepségek történeti összefoglalóiba, végigkísérhetjük, hogy az adott korszakok vallási és politikai viszonyai milyen hatást gyakoroltak az egyes centenáriumi ünnepségekre. Az első ünneplő évszázadokban a nyomtatásban megjelenő ünnepi kiadványokat az erőteljes felekezetközi (protestáns-katolikus) polémia jellemezte.