Egyháztörténeti Szemle 14. (2013)

2013 / 1. szám - SUMMARIES IN ENGLISH - Szabó András: Gloomy Beginnings. Some New Aspects to the Early Yeras of Gáspár Károlyi's Life and Career

Summaries in English 109 (1553)" A detailed comparison reveals subtle but crucial differences be­tween the two texts. Even if the same material is often used, structural rearrangements fundamentally affect the line of reasoning. Considering that the actual commentary on the Aristotelian source text amounts to less than 5 per cent of Melanchthon’s chapter, the latter is rather to be consid­ered his own presentation of an eschatological locus, and it mirrors his maturing understanding of the epistemological and theological issues in­volved. In both versions of the argument, the soul’s immortality is pre­sented in the context of Christian belief in the resurrection. But while the Commentarius exhibits some unease about a possible balance between reason and revelation as sources of knowledge of the two doctrines, the Liber more sharply distinguishes between them and allows reason only to gain insight into the immortality of the soul. On Melanchthon’s mature view, the doctrine of resurrection has a different epistemic foundation; it is reserved solely for faith. Since his De anima is an anthropological textbook written for students of the philosophical faculty, the latter, properly theo­logical, issues fall beyond the scope of his investigation, and Melanchthon’s point is limited to the affirmation of the immortality thesis within the con­text of theological anthropology, itself developed on the foundation laid by the distinction, central to the Lutheran Reformation, between law and gospel. Gloomy Beginnings. Some New Aspects to the Early Years of Gáspár Károlyi’s Life and Career Szabó, András Gáspár Károlyi, the greatest Hungarian Bible-translator was a modest and moderate man - very far from the ‘self-fashioning’ style and behaviour of Alber Szenei Molnár who often spoke about himself and liked to be de­picted, even on the frontispiece of his translation of Calvin’s Institutes. Consequently, to unveil his early years, his schooling and his intellectual affinities is not an easy and simple matter for one dealing with his person­ality and oeuvre. By Szenei Molnár he is mentioned as a ‘godly old man’, but we have to count with the 16th-century ‘grades’ of human life: senec­tus, (from 49 on), gravitas (until 70) and finally the aetas senilis. Not only the exact data of his life, but the original form of his family name is unsure, and the facts of the years of his education in Kronstadt (Bra§ov, Brassó) and at the University of Wittenberg are equally ‘gloomy’. Consequently, a very meticulous research method is needed — full of cautious steps of mi­cro-philology - if we want to learn more about throughout the preparatory period of his life, before he started the gigantic work.

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