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Laymen Institution in the Hungarian Reformed Church District of Transylvania. It has been disputed for the last few decades the possible presence and task of the laymen in the church government of the 16–18. Centuries Hungarian Reformed Church life in Transylvania. Arguments have been brought up to prove that as soon as the 16th century the West-European type Presbyterium has already started to gain terrain in the church. The study tries to come up with arguments to prove that the democratic church government according to which the Swiss, English, German, Dutch reformed churches had been doing the government in the 16–17 centuries was not present only in the synods’ records and has not became reality in the Transylvanian church life. Peter Melius bishop of Debrecen was the one, who has found out, that the Presbiterial institution did not fit to the structure of Transylvanian and Hungarian society, consequently he put up the new adapted structure of the local churches as well, as that of the deaneries.

Die Theologie der Weisheitspsalmen. Die Weisheitspsalmen bilden ein wichtiger Teil in der Gebetsliteratur Israels. Diese Psalmen haben eine eigentümliche theologische Orientation in Zusammenhang der Weisheitsliteratur Israels. Dieses Studium repräsentiert ein Gesamtbild über das wichtige Problematik der Weisheit im Gebet Israels. Das wichtigste Thema ist die Theodizee, welches hat eine eigentümliche Betonung durch die eschatologische Auffassung (Psalm 37., 49., 73.). Der Beter klagt, aber er lebt immer in dieser Gewissheit, dass Gott ist seine Lebensquelle. Darum bekennt er durch seinen Glaube: „Wenn mir gleich Leib und Seele verschmachtet, so bist du doch, Gott, allezeit meines Herzens Trost und mein Teil.“ (Psalm 73,26)