Sárospataki Füzetek 21. (2017)

2017 / 2. szám - ARTICLES-STUDIEN - INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE SINCE THE AGE OF THE REFORMATION-INTERKULTURELLER DIALOG SEIT DER REFORMATION - Nagy Károly Zsolt: Leaving a Mark: The calvinist landscapes of remembrance

name on the back of the bench among the names of other students of the College, to a place where students put their own names hundreds of years ago, provides a peculiar experience of time and continuity - the continuity of communal life.

Finally, every such cloud, or list, has a secret message reflecting on the transcendent; after all, behind all of them, there is the sense of Providence, of the “Ebenezer”,16 and the hope that the list will continue to grow. Maybe my son will also engrave his name decades from now to where I have engraved mine.

Leaving a Mark: The Calvinist Landscapes of Remembrance

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Hat-rack with initials on the gallery of the Calvinist church of Magyarvalkó

16 1 Samuel 7:12. “Then Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen. He named it Ebenezer, saying, Thus far the Lord has helped us.’” The literal meaning of the expression is: “the stone of help”.

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