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The General Synod of 1820 is the subject of my Master's thesis. I believe that the topic and the sources it reveals are indispensable for the research of the Transylvanian Reformed Church history. I will start from the life of the church in the 19th century and move towards the source that I have uncovered. In the excavated source, points appear which are connected with the liturgical history, the history of the order, and the rules and customs of burial. A slice of this will be presented and unpacked in this essay. The information and the improved readability of the record will be useful for all those who wish to enrich their knowledge of church history.

In this study, I examine the works of ars praedicandi as used by the Unitarians. The paper focuses on the Unitarian use of the works of Bartholomaeus Keckermann, who attributed an important role to the exordium. The paper further registers an 18th-century Unitarian reader of Keckermann’s rhetoric, found in a composite volume in the Library of the Cluj-Napoca Branch of the Romanian Academy. This work’s earlier impact can also be studied in a Unitarian manuscript revision created as early as in 1653. There is another Unitarian work (Ms. U. 262) on sermon making from this period, a part of which contains examples of exordiums, that is, introductory parts of sermons. Based on all this, I argue that the exordiums were handled much more leniently by the Unitarians than by other Reformed denominations, and that from the late Renaissance to the 18th century, Unitarians were practitioners of a rather traditional type of preaching.

A dolgozatomat három nagy egységre osztottam fel. Az első részben azt kort mutattam be, ahol Mária Terézia uralkodásának végével kezdve, milyen fontos események történek a protestáns felekezetekre nézve. Ilyen volt az 1791. országgyűlés is, ahol a két protestáns felkezet a protestánsok és katolikusok is egymásnak feszültek, az áttérés és a vegyes házasságok kapcsán. A második részben ismertettem a Görgényi Egyházmegyét, szervezetét és megalakulását. A harmadik részben pedig az átírt jegyzőkönyvet veszem górcső alá. Bemutatom elsősorban, hogy miként működött a vizitáció a Görgényi Egyházmegyében.