Sárospataki Füzetek 17. (2013)
2013 / 4. szám - TANULMÁNYOK - Szilveszter Füsti-Molnár: Can the Heidelberg Catechism be Neglected in the Life of the Reformed Church of Hungary?
Can the Heidelberg Catechism be Neglected in the Life... tivity, but is a gateway to the whole creation, which can be seen as the new scene of God’s glory, thus creating a new kind of communitas in the dramatic liminal situation of the current context. What makes this approach more vividly descriptive is that a gap over won through time by the resurrection of Christ, who became eternally present, turned the eschatological experience into a liminal one. Laying stress upon God’s will, we focus on God, which opens the way in a personal and communal sense, so that going beyond ourselves we can glorify Him with the whole cosmos, and that glorification is the subject of spirituality. This may have impacts not only on the Church but can have effects on a social level as well, that can show tested ways out of the surrounding changes of value orientation. The life and love of the community, however, is essential to all this, which actually can only be gained through the mysterious union with Christ by the work of the Holy Spirit. In unio mistyca cum Christo we find the solution for the modern person’s desires, in which the lack of relationship and the emptiness of not belonging somewhere, fulfilled and resulting in a living experience concerning the worship of God both liturgically and in an every day sense as well. The Christian message, which can be interpreted as a paradigm of the call into a liminal position, as mentioned above, may carry significant alternatives and answers in the transitory nature and liminal processes of our age, and in the critical situation of these. The stress of this approach does not only provide a unique perspective for Christian theology, but can create a connection with the present that looks both back and forward at the same time, putting the Christian eschatological message at the forefront. The Heidelberg Catechism was written in a strained transitory situation within its age and determined those still valid elements of the Protestant principles.18 The ignorance of the Heidelberg Catechism would mean overlooking the Church’s core and mission concerning Christ, in the teaching and practice of the Hungarian Reformed Church’s everyday life. 18 Andreas Rössler: Dogma nélküli keresztyénség?; Freies Christentum 2001/6. Sárospataki Füzetek 17. évfolyam 201314 55
