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Der Beitrag ist zum Anlass des 120jähriges Bestehens des Reformierten Theologischen Fakultät in Klausenburg, und 25jähriges Jubiläum des gemischten Chores des Protestantisch Theologischen Institutes in Klausenburg als Vortrag gehalten. Die Tradition eines Fakultätschores führt das alte Vorbild von den protestantischen Kollegien weiter, wo das Chorsingen sowie Musik- und Kirchengesangunterricht eine wichtige Rolle spielte. Diese Tradition wurde ab 19. Jahrhundert bis 1945 auch unter der Obhut des Gesang- und Musikvereins der Fakultät gepflegt. 1990 wurde vom Professor László Attila Kovács der gemischte Chor der Fakultät gegründet, der ab 2008 von Timea Benkő geleitet wird.

We are always seeking for the sense of the life, for ourselves and for the place in our family and community. Religion shows a new way to us, according to Jesus Christ’s principles. The son of God not only created a religion, but gave us an example how to live, and sacrifice himself for us. Sándor Karácsony reckons religion as a spiritual behavior, the base of our social contacts. We have to see into our lives and character according to the message of Jesus Christ. The right and appropriate personality can be evolved by individual training.

The views of Sándor Karácsony about religious education can be clearly discerned from his writings. The main task of reformed pedagogy is to activate continuously the divine notions in this continuously changing world. Protestant teachers must accomplish their daily work according to the Gospel of Christ. The Hungarian Reformed Church was a so-called “church of schools” for hundreds of years. This means that even between WWI and WWII it owned more schools than churches. The number of Reformed schools is significant even today. Sándor Karácsony claims that only Reformed people and communities are able to maintain Reformed schools by people who “are ready to serve and sacrifice themselves” for this cause (Karácsony, Sándor: A magyarok Istene. Széphalom Könyvműhely, Budapest 2004, 172).

The astronomical part of the Ethiopian Book of Enoch refers to an interesting phenomenon, namely the length of the longest day of the year. This data is particularly significant in localising this astronomical observation on the world map. Since the length of the year’s longest day depends on geographical latitude, this data could hint at the latitude of the place, i.e. the approximate geographical location where the Book of Enoch may have been composed. A closer analysis of this reference surprisingly reveals that this place should be looked for somewhere near to latitude 50○, that is far to the north from Palestine.