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    STUDIA THEOLOGIA%20REFORMATA%20TRANSYLVANICA - Issue no. 2 / 2016  
         
  Article:   LAW OR GRACE? GRACE AND LAW?/TÖRVÉNY VAGY KEGYELEM? KEGYELEM ÉS TÖRVÉNY?.

Authors:  VISKY S. BÉLA. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  Law or Grace? Grace and Law? Karl Barth, the most important theologian of the 20th century gives the following metaphor on the relationship between grace and law: for the People of the Covenant the place of the Tables of the Law was the Ark of the Covenant; the covenant embraces the law, precedes, and follows it. The hutch of the covenant of grace, nevertheless, is not empty; it holds the law of this covenant codified by God. The curse of the law is thus the misunderstood law and the misunderstood – and self-overestimated – men, while the strength, joy and freedom required for the fulfilment of the law cannot come from anywhere else, but from the Holy Spirit as the gracious gift of God.

Keywords: Karl Barth, Tables of the Law, grace, Ark of the Covenant, Hankiss Elemér, Viktor E. Frankl, Friedrich Nietzsche, Pilinszky János, Emil Brunner, Martin Buber, Newton, Heisenberg, apostles Paul and James, Bonhoeffer, Epistle to the Romans and Galatians. 		 
         
     
         
         
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