,,IATĂ NE ÎNTOARCEM CĂTRE NEAMURI...” (F. AP. 13, 46). ASPECTE PREMERGĂTOARE PRIMEI CĂLĂTORII MISIONARE A SFÂNTULUI APOSTOL PAVEL

Author(s): Vasile Doru Fer / Language(s): Romanian / Issue: 01-03/2019

The present study addresses a topic of interest not only for newtestamentary theology but also for other related theological disciplines. In the contemporary context, the reminder of the missionary framework is imperative, given that the Apostle Paul, appealing to his disciple and associate Timothy, urged him to preach the word, persevering with time and without time (cf. II Timothy 4:2) such a vivid exhortation nowadays too. The Book of Acts provides us with the most comprehensive information about the vast ministry of preaching the Gospel of Christ to the Gentiles, and the Gentiles who are covered by the darkness of unbelief have thrilled to the message brought by the missionary preachers of the teaching of Christ. Not having much opportunity, the Apostle Paul, along with the other collaborators who formed the missionary group on the first missionary journey, Barnabas and John Mark, through the preaching, will succeed in transforming the pagan world into a people of the righteous. Actually, the missions of St. Paul the Apostle will be a particularly important element that will change the future of mankind, becoming the voice of the hopelessness hope. Though he considered himself the least importanat among the Apostles, he will consecrate himself as an Apostle of the Gentiles. He not only proclaimed the Gospel to them, but always tried by his presence, and when he failed, he kept trying, through his epistles, to return to the midst of those he converted, in order to keep alive and unaltered the doctrine of Christ. The versatility of the paulin genius left its mark forever on the teaching of the Church. Therefore, if an analysis of his missionary journeys is desired, it must be done in different ways. The devotion with which he had fulfilled the 36 Altarul Banatului mission entrusted to him has to be emphasized, regardless of the missionary journeys analysis. Although the present study only considers the preliminary aspects of the first missionary journey and not an exhaustive presentation in its entirety, we will find that the perspective and missionary work among the Gentiles as well as the formation of the first missionary group are landmarks that require a special attention.

1563: a Heidelbergi Káté első négy kiadása

Author(s): Mihály Márkus / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 1/2014

A felmentés: megérteni annyi, mint megbocsátani

Author(s): Sándor Béla Visky / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 6/2017

This paper examines the issue of absolution by Vladimir Jankélévitch. The absolving party’s role is to discover the cause external to man, deep down beneath human malice, which motivates the criminal actions. With an investigator’s zeal, an answer is sought to the question of “unde malum”? The old answer comes from dualism: the negative transcendent force, Satan, is the source of all sins. If there is an explanation, sin is mitigated and rage is attenuated, therefore explanations must be found. So one needs to explain – and this absolves one from all obligations of forgiveness. But this method fails the three requirements of true forgiveness, too: it is not an “immediate” “event”. It does not involve a personal relationship between the perpetrator and the injured. The offender is not offensive – at the very most, he is ill or illadvised,but there are no bridges from here to the other side of the abyss, where there is anobligation of love. Absolution is painless, but forgiveness is a heart-breaking, painful sacrifice. However, there is always something behind the intention of absolution which is ultimately similar to forgiveness and love: our author calls it a surplus of energy. The state of the soul is not the same when it seeks exempting or aggravating circumstances.Another substitute for forgiveness treated by Jankélévitch is the thoughtless purging of the crime committed and its destruction. The author does not use Freud’s concept of suppression, but essentially that is what he is about: throwing the case file into the fire and “never speaking about it again”. According to Jankélévitch, this misleading, abrupt gesture, which sends the message that nothing happened, primarily lacks the third characteristic of true forgiveness, the personal relationship between the parties. The relationship between the victim and his tormentor remains superficial, mere window-dressing, if they fail to work through the most sensitive questions, if the former fails to strive to show mercy, love and forgiveness so that the requirement of truth is left intact.

A Ferencz József-féle Unitárius káté átdolgozásai és kiadásai

Author(s): Elek Rezi / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 4/2018

This article explores revisions to József Ferencz’s (1835–1928) Unitarian Catechism, including the revisions’ underlying evolving theological aspects and perspectives. The most significant revisions were made in 1875, 1947, and 1973, and in different circumstances. The article evaluates the theological aspects of the revisions, and proposes that the revisions have contributed to the development of Hungarian Unitarian theology, and enriched the practice of confirmation. The article also calls attention to the necessity of revising the present Unitarian Catechism, and includes the editions of the Unitarian Catechism.

A Genfi Káté fordításai és a kátéhoz csatolt konfirmációi kérdések

Author(s): János Hermán M. / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 5/2015

Calvin wished to change the structure of his first catechism (1537/1538), which explained the Ten Commandments before the Apostles’ Cred. Having recognised that his first catechism was too difficult for children, Calvin rewrote his text. He arranged the Geneva Catechism (1542) in questions and answers in an effort to simplify doctrinal complexities. His second Catechism displaced all other Reformed catechisms until 1563, the year when the Heidelberg Catechism appeared. In 1563 the bishop of Debrecen, Péter Méliusz, translated the Confession of Geneva into Hungarian. The text was also translated into Italian (1551 and 1556), Spanish (1550), English (1556), German, Dutch, Greek and Hebrew. The second Hungarian translation was made by István Zilahi in 1695 and was edited by Miklós Misztótfalusi Kis. Finally, in 1907 Sándor Czeglédy prepared a new translation of its text. The La maniere d’interroger les enfants qu’on veut recevoir a la Cene de notre Seigneur Jésus Christ and Das Genfer Konfirmationsformular von 1553 are very important catechetical instruments.

A Heidelbergi Káté időszerű üzenete és korhoz kötött vonásai

Author(s): Ferenc Szűcs / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 1/2014

A Heidelbergi Káté mint keresztelési hitvallás

Author(s): Wim Verboom / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 1/2014

A Heidelbergi Káté Szentírás-használata, különös tekintettel az úrvacsoráról szóló tanításra

Author(s): Gábor Vladár / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 1/2014

A Heidelbergi Káté szerkezete és annak magyar református olvasata 1948-ban és 2013-ban

Author(s): István Zalatnay / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 2/2014

The first from the altogether three parts essay offers an analysis of the structure and inner logical dynamism of the Heidelberg Catechism, the symbolic document of the Re-formed church. The analysis demonstrates in a series of four concentric circles, how each of these represents a certain historically verifiable perception of the Christian faith.The first and one represents an individualistic approach, understood as the key conceptof the then beginning modernity, based on the soteriological logic of my sin, my salvation and my gratefulness. The second one introduces the essence of the theological “correction” by the Reformation, emphasising grace and faith as the determining factors. The third one is the Apostolic Creed with its clear Trinitarian, ie. theological and ontological structure. The fourth one is a simple presentation of the core of the holy history, the Christ-event. The paper understands the Catechism as a grandiose attempt to lead the individually centred man back to God on a road beginning from the first and outermost circle to the last one, so to say to the feet of Christ.

A Historical Perspective on Inclusivism as the Prevailing Paradigm in the Christian Theology of Religions

Author(s): Krzysztof Grzelak / Language(s): English / Issue: 1/2018

The article first explains various perspectives on the world religions. Its main focus is on the inclusivist perspective as the most common approach in the debate on religions. Here special attention is given to the development of the Christocentric model in the Catholic Church referring first to the early Church Fathers and afterwards to Logos theology. The analysis shows that the theology of the Logos was always present in Catholic attitudes towards other believers throughout history alongside the exclusivist axiom extra ecclesiam nulla salus (outside the Church no salvation). Later, this inclusivist theology was echoed in the „fulfilment theory” of Jean Danielou, „anonymous Christianity” of Karl Rahner, the Second Vatican Council’s stand on other faiths, and in the post-conciliar official Church teaching. The article ends with evaluation of the complexity, challenges and unavoidable shortcomings of the Christocentric approach to other religions.

A hit és a jó cselekedetek kérdése a Heidelbergi Káté korában és ma

Author(s): Sarolta Lengyelné Püsök / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 1/2014

A hitvallási iratokra jellemző funkciók megjelenése a Heidelbergi Kátéban

Author(s): Károly Fekete / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 1/2014

A hitvalló Karl Barth elítéli Nagyváradon a bolsevizmust és a fasizmust (1936)

Author(s): János Hermán M. / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 3/2014

This sermon of the famous professor, based on the text of John 14:1, is hardly familiar for readers of Hungarian theological literature. However, it is known that a Hungarian summary was made at the time the sermon was held, and once published, an exact translation of the German text was made. Our aim is to review Barth’s visit to Oradea (Nagyvárad) on 7–8 October 1936, to revisit the above mentioned sermon, as well as the short interview with Barth that was published in one of the local newspapers at that time. This interview reflects Barth’s prophetic vision: Bolshevism and fascism must retreat at the sight of Christian faith. There is no trace of this conversation in the Barth-bibliographies, although this interview is still crucial,even after 78 years.

A II. vatikáni zsinat liturgikus konstitúciója

A gyulafehérvári egyházmegye püspöki rendelkezései

Author(s): Emőke Ilyés / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 11/2018

A káték "fölöttébb szükséges voltáról"

Author(s): Elek Rezi / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 1/2014

A katolikus egyház társadalmi tanítása: az individuáletikától a társadalometikáig

Author(s): László Holló / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 2/2017

Die Soziallehre der katholischen Kirche als Teilgebiet der Ethik, hat sich geschichtlich aus der Individualethik beziehungsweise aus der Nächstenliebe herausentwickelt. Die – seit Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts – sogenannte „soziale Frage“ ist aber durch eine grundlegende Neuordnung der sozialstrukturellen Bedingungen zu lösen. Dazu kann die katholische Kirche auf eine ganze Reihe von Sozialschrift en zurückgreifen. In der folgenden Studie wir die Entwicklung der Soziallehre dargestellt, sowie die Sozialenzykliken der Katholischen Kirche näher präsentiert.

A keresztségről az 1Pt 3,18–22 és 4,6 alapján

Author(s): Pál Herczeg / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 5/2018

Ist 1. Petrus 3,18–22 eine Taufrede, dann kann der Bibeltext nicht bloß als eine Lehre und Verpflichtung angesehen werden, sondern hier ist auch ein Gewissheit bietender Trost zu finden: Vielleicht leben, oder werden die Christen in Sintflut leben, aber die Arche, bzw., was die Arche als Vorbild zeigen will, die Taufe ist jene Möglichkeit, die Gott „den Gerechten und Untadligen“ angeboten hat. Diese Perikope sagt mit anderen Worten das Selbe, was in den Briefen an die Römer, Galater und Kolosser von der Taufe geschrieben ist, aber hier wurzelt die Lehre über die Taufe in einem weiteren geschichtlichen und heilgeschichtlichen Kontext. Zugleich gibt diese Bibelstelle sehr betont Weisungen und Hoffnung den Lesern hinsichtlich ihrer aktuellen gesellschaftlichen, menschlichen Situation.

A krisztusi szeretet etikája és az igazságosság relatív társadalmi lehetőségei Reinhold Niebuhr szemléletében

Author(s): Zsolt Papp / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 4/2014

Reinhold Niebuhr’s view about the ethics of Jesus is a classic presentation of the tension between the love ethic and the hard requirements of relative justice in the power conflicts of a sinful world. His theory could be a guide for Christians in our society today, tomorrow and for many years to come.

A leghosszabb forradalom: az elveszett paradicsomtól vissza a teremtés méltóságához

Author(s): Liviu Jitianu / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 01/2016

A liberális krisztológia

A legendák Krisztusa és Jézus szelleme

Author(s): Ábrahám Kovács / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 1/2012