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    "A csoda helyszíne itt van köztünk": A hétköznapi, e rendkívüli és a szent a protestáns spiritualitásban
    (2020) Miklósné Dr. Tóth Sára Vanda
    “The Scene of Miracle is here, among us”: The Ordinary, the Extraordinary, and the Sacred in Protestant Spirituality In our profoundly alienated and disenchanted Western culture there is a growing need for a spirituality firmly grounded in ordinary reality. The Reformation, as is well-known, has bridged the divide between the sacred and the profane by conferring unprecedented dignity on earthly life and secular vocations. At the same time, however, Protestants tend to think of the world as under judgement, and thus having religious significance mainly as a stage of transforming ethical action in the believer’s obedient response to the call of the transcendent Other. In this paper the above attitude is identified as “ethical sacramentalism” in contrast with “aesthetic sacramentalism.” In aesthetic sacramentalism the good things of this world are symbols or expressions of God’s eternal nature, whereas in ethical sacramentalism they are viewed as instruments which God uses to bring about his kingdom. Whenever one of these tendencies becomes dominant at the cost of the other, spirituality becomes one-sided. In an ethically oriented, prophetic spirituality there is a propensity to undervalue the goodness of creation and thus to objectify and instrumentalize the world. The paper calls attention to those aspects of Christian spirituality which have the potential to right the balance by enabling us to experience the sacramental in the ordinary. I point out how art, and literary language in particular, can help us overcome alienation by liberating us to participate in God’s beauty and holiness manifested through the created world.
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    A képzelet másik oldala: Irodalom és vallás Northrop Frye életművében
    (Károli Gáspár Református Egyetem, 2012) Miklósné Dr. Tóth Sára Vanda
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    “We Are Not Aliens in the Universe”: Marilynne Robinson’s Imaginative Re-enchantment of Protestantism
    (2021) Miklósné Dr. Tóth Sára Vanda
    Marilynne Robinson, in her novels and essays, sets out to retrieve a foundational strain of religious experience, one that has been minimized or even repressed in most branches of the Protestant tradition. This is what, following Paul Ricœur, American theologian David Tracy calls “the manifestation orientation” in religious expression. Building on Tracy’s distinction between “manifestation and proclamation” within Christianity, I identify and analyze a shift of emphasis from the “proclamation orientation” of Robinson’s first novel, Housekeeping, with its presentation of human existence as radically homeless and alienated, to “manifestation” in Robinson’s later work. In the Gilead novels, while preserving the proclamation orientation of Protestantism through an indictment of social injustice, she corrects the one-sided Protestant emphasis on divine transcendence and human sin, affirming a fundamental “at-home-ness” (Tracy) in the universe. Through her fictional Protestant minister and a creative rereading of classical Protestant theologians, Robinson offers an imaginative alternative to Weberian accounts of Protestant spirituality