Boros György (szerk.): Értesítő a Nemzetközi Unitárius Conferencziáról (Kolozsvár, 1897)
A Nemzetközi Unitárius Konferenczián tartott beszédek és felolvasások - Beszédek és felolvasások
149 tence harmonizing its marvellous multiplicity. Then appear the great historical revelations, the great organised religions. There is unfolded a drama, which is a war of gods, wherein gods succumb to the mastery of God. Revealed religions take possession of separate territories. Each of these religions is said to be revealed; yet how diverse are their conceptions of God, how different the religious and moral views thence deduced, and the re sultant systems of faith and ceremony. The revelation of Israel is said to be immutable; yet mark the austere, pitiless, terrific character which ancient Israel ascribes to God, and consider how much is changed, how much is modified, when we come to the religion of Jesus. In the train of the spiritual and moral light of Jesus, of his divine revelation, of his most perfect religion, there is produced a literature which comes to birth in an age, when language is sufficiently developed and enriched to be competent to the expression of the most abstract ideas, the most delicate refinements. This richness of language secures variety of diction; giving different colour to the same revelation, when the first three evangelical narrations are compared with the fourth, and the Gospels with the sequent writings. Not merely colour, but texture also, is essentially different, when we pass to the literature subsequent to the books of the New Revelation. What a difference there is between the „Father of Jesus“ who is the living God, and that „Father“, who is the Antecedent to the creation of the world or to the procession of „emanations“, yet now is but a prower in holy rest, this and no more- What a change in the notion of God is (to look in another direction) implied in the view, which not content with praising and glorifying Jesus, through whom the divine revelation came, for the heavenly splendour, the new and Iwondrous light manifested in him, credits him with exhausting in his own person the whole idea of
