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 Gyimes-völgyi katolikusok vallásos életének története

Author(s): Emőke Tankó / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 05/2017

A Györgyfalvi Menekültek Közművelődési Egyesülete

Csekefalvi Tamás Béláné feljegyzései. Forrásközlés

Author(s): János Hermán M. / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 1/2018

Mrs. Csekefalvi Tamás Béláné recorded some valuable data concerning the pastoral care of hundreds of Reformed and Catholic people who became refugees in 1940, when they left their village Györgyfalva and fled to the nearby city of Kolozsvár/Cluj-Napoca. This Christian lady was also involved in cultural and social work which she pursued together with others, and so she organised the “Cultural Association for Refugees from Györgyfalva”. The Association took up the education and cultural entertainment of the younger refugees, and the high standards of these activities were also applied to the cultivation of the rich traditions of the people of village Györgyfalva. The committee members – a list of their names was preserved –, helped the refugees to find work, and assisted those sent to court-martial to gain back their freedom. During the communist era in Romania it was not possible to share these stories of personal or communal suffering.

A gyulafehérvári székeskáptalan működése a 20. században

Author(s): József Marton / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 1/2018

Le Chapitre d’Alba Iulia en 1918 selon Codex Iuris Canonici a joué un rol important dans la vie de gouvernement de Dioceze Catholique d’Alba Iulia. Il était le plus important conseilleur de l’Eveque actuel et de l’Office Ecclésiastique. Le Chapitre a conseillé l’eveque en ce qui concerne tous les choses ecclésiastiques, déquelles ont écrit des processes verbales. Ces écritures constituent des documents tres valeureux. A l’occasion de débats il y avait des désaccords, des divergences d’opinion, qui accentuent le valeur de ces documents.

A hadadi lelkipásztorok névsora

Author(s): János Hermán M. / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 5/2012

Die Studie behandelt die Kirchen- und allgemeine Geschichte der Gemeinde Hadad (auf Deutsch Kriegsdorf und auf Rumänisch Hodod). Der Verfasser hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, die Spuren der ersten Presbyterien ans Licht zu bringen.Im zweiten Teil wird vom heutigen, erbärmlichen Zustand des reformierten Kirchengebäudes (1423) gesprochen, welches bei der Errichtung Szent László (Sankt Ladislaus) gewidmet wurde. Im Weiteren wird aber noch die Gründung der deutschsprachigen lutherischen Gemeinde erwähnt. In der Mitte des 18. Jahrhunderts setzte sich Ferenc Wesselényi für verfolgte protestantische Glaubensbrüder aus Österreich ein, die unter seinem Schutz in Hadad und Tasnád (Tressenberg oder Trestenburg) Zuflucht fanden.Die Liste der Geistlichen und auch die Daten der Teilsynoden (Hadad, 1640) sind nichtvollständig.

A HÁLA SZEREPE LELKI, MENTÁLIS ÉS FIZIKAI EGÉSZSÉGÜNKBEN

Author(s): Andrea Ferenczi / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 1/2020

The Role of Gratitude in Spiritual, Mental and Physical Health. Psalm 50 demonstrates complicated requirements of relationships towards both God and our neighbours in terms of gratitude, as well as in the realm of hope for divine libera-tion. Having evolved layers of meaning, in the psalm, the expression “liberation” – the linguistic root “jesa” – seems to have wide collocations. Getting released from an enemy is the immediate equivalent, but the spectrum of meaning covers, among others, escape from exigency, psychological burden, or bodily disease. We started to examine interrelations between gratitude and liberation with psychological means some years ago. Through exploring terrains of gratitude as a construct, we hope to get closer to the understanding of human nature and behaviour. Our results may serve therapeutic intervention by bringing closer those who are engaged in counsel-lor and psychology professionals. My present study wishes to describe the notion of gratitude from the perspec-tives of religious and cultural studies and more broadly, from the aspects of psy-chology. The review of some research results is meant to underline interrelations be-tween gratitude and mental health. Finally, some of our own researches support the idea that gratitude is a capacity you can acquire and improve throughout your life. Experiencing and expressing gratitude may provide room for something new and may afford space for recovery to happen, for willingness to occur, so that liberation could come into being.

A Heidelbergi Káté kéziratos magyarázatai Erdélyben

Author(s): Zoltán Ballai / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 2/2014

The purpose of this paper is to present and to sum up the results of a historical and theological research into the use of the Heidelberg Catechism in Transylvania. It focuses on those commentaries on the Heidelberg Catechism which have never been printed because of various reasons, but are still in use for almost two centuries in the schools and pulpits of the Church. Most of the manuscripts mentioned in this study –mainly from 17th-18th century – have never been extensively researched. The current analysis aims to classify the various types of commentaries written in different historical circumstances and based on different argumentations. Moreover, it also gives a taste – as it serves as a basis for a broader research – of the colourful insights into the rightly appreciated Heidelberg Catechism and its explanations.

A Heltai-nyomda Apokalipszis-kommentárjairól

Author(s): Tamás Túri / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 1/2018

The study investigates two Apocalypse commentaries from the 17th century, which were printed in Kolozsvár according to the Unitarian bibliographies. On the title page of the Brevis dissertatio… (1625, RMK II, 436) probably written by the Socinian Andreas Voidovius (1565–1622?) the “Claudipoli” is a false place of the printing, because neither the type of the letters nor the tail-piece correspond to the works by Heltai’s printing house. There is no data about the reception on this print in Kolozsvár, but short review of the Brevis dissertatio… is required, because it explains the Rev 13. and 17. similar to the Lutheran historical interpretations and it enriches the reticent Socinian commentaries. The work has a radical place among the Unitarian commentaries, because it prophesised the fall of the Antichrist in ca. 1630. The Explicatio locorum aliquot diffi ciliorum in Apocalypsi (1644) is reviewed by the History of the Unitarian Church, written by János Kénosi Tőzsér (1708–1772) and István Uzoni Fosztó (1729–1778) in the 18th century, although the Explicatio… was not printed in Kolozsvár. This moderate chiliastic commentary was published as an appendix of the Dutch Collegiant Daniel De Breen (1594–1664)’s Amica disputatio adversus Judaeos…, which aimed to convert the Jews. The book had major reception among the Unitarians: it is found in more copies among the Unitarian manuscripts and prints in the Library of Academy in Cluj-Napoca. De Breen’s activity was a part of the spiritual-mystical period of the Collegiant movement, so the emergence of the Amica disputatio… among the Transylvanian Unitarians is appraisable as the Unitarian reception of the spiritualist literature in the 18th century. However, there is no information about its infl uence on the Unitarian writings yet.

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 hitvita mint kommunikációs eszköz

Author(s): Attila Koncz / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 12/2019

A KEGYES ÉLET HETI RITMUSA – A NYUGALOM NAPJÁNAK KERESZTYÉN SAJÁTOSSÁGAI

Author(s): Balázs Siba / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 1/2020

Weekly Rhythm of Gracious Life – Christian Features of the Seventh Day. This study reflects on that “many Christians and others now keep a weekend of two Saturdays.” Our consumer culture has made the seventh day not a holy day, but a kind of extra time to catch up with the tasks of everyday rush. The seventh day is not only necessary because of our biological and sociological needs, but it also has a theological dimension. Sacred time can take many forms, and we are not bound by time and space to pray to God, but the Sunday is a great opportunity to come together to experience the miracle of God’s presence in our community. In this article, we look at the four elements to a holy day: rest, remember, give thanks, and refocus.

A keresztény magyarság történelmi múltjáról, jeleneiről és jövőjéről

Az 1956-os forradalom és szabadságharc 60. évfordulójára

Author(s): Gábor Jakab / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 09/2016

A kilyéni Szent László-legenda falképciklus egyik sajátos ábrázolása

Author(s): Mihály Jánó / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 06/2017

A kolozsmonostori címzetes apáti titulus

Author(s): Gábor Merényi-Metzger / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 01/2016

A kolozsvár-belvárosi (Farkas utcai) református templom orgonájának centenáriumára

Author(s): István Dávid / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 6/2013

In der Kirchenmusikgeschichte obengenannter Kirche knüpfen sich drei Daten zu je einer Orgel: 1534, 1765, 1913. Diese drei Jahreszahlen sind von verschiedenen Stilen und Zeitaltern, sich wechselnden kirchengeschichtlichen Ereignissen und von veränder-lichen materiellen Möglichkeiten umflochten. Auch das Ideal der Kirchenkunst war inständiger Umwandlung, gleich wie das Schicksal der Kirchen Europas. Schon sind auch die Geschehnisse eines vergangenen Jahrhunderts hinter uns, seit diese allerjügste Orgelin dieser mehr als halbes Jahrtausend alten Kirche gebaut worden ist. Vielleicht wird esuns gelingen eine solche Analyse zu vollenden, die uns in der Kenntnis der Vergangenheit, zu authentischen Ergebnissen und zu einem korrekten Blick in die Zukunft führt. Die Geschichte der Klausenburger Kirchengänger, deren Anhänglichkeit zu ihrer Kirche, Liturgie und zur jeweiligen Orgel ihrer Kirche seit vielen Jahrhunderten besteht, soll ein Beispiel sein für die kommenden und hoffenden Generationen.

A Kolozsvári Egyetemi Lelkészség alapítása és első évei

Author(s): Mózes Nóda / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 04/2019

A kolozsvári teológiai tanárok katedrán kívüli szolgálata a belmisszióban

Author(s): Zoltán Adorjáni / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 1/2019

Az Erdélyi Református Egyházkerület Igazgatótanácsa az 1922. november 17-én tartott ülésén vetette fel a belmisszió halaszthatatlan kérdésének megtárgyalását, és javaslatot terjeszt elő egy Belmissziói Bizottság megalakítására. Imre Lajos (1888–1974), a gyakorlati teológia tanára szabálytervezetet készített a belmisszió ügyének rendezésére, amelynek 4. pontja szerint a Belmissziói Bizottság elnöke a püspök vagy a főjegyző, s a tagok sorában helyet kap minden teológiai tanár.

A konfirmáció bevezetése az erdélyi református egyházban

Káté és katekézis

Author(s): Vilmos József Kolumbán / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 6/2011

The Reformed Church in Transylvania implemented the practice of confirmation in 1810,after a lengthy process of preparation. Summarising the previous experiments, bishop János Abats compiled a confirmation liturgy and a catechism as a private initiative. He presented this plan to the relevant ecclesiastical authorities, and after multiple debates within the synod, it was finally accepted and implemented by the synod in Szárazajta.

A könyvek sorsa, avagy unitárius egyházpolitika a türelmi rendelet évtizedeiben

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

A kultúrharc retorikája és a protestantizmus magyarországi röpiratokban

Author(s): János Rada / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 01/2017

The paper defines the rhetoric of ’cultural struggle’ (Kulturkampf) on the basis of an analysis of Hungarian anti-clerical pamphlets published between 1867 and 1895. It shows that in the course of the fight for the separation of church and state, the authors of such texts also mobilized the example of the Protestant confessions, along an idealized conception of Protestantism, in their argumentation against the Roman Catholic Church. The citation of idealized Protestant features became as integral to the argumentation of anti-clerical authors of the Catholic confession as to that of the Protestants.