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In this dissertation I would like to present an extract from Philipp Melanchthon's work Catechesis puerilis. I translated part of the work from Latin into Hungarian. The work, Catechesis puerilis, is quite distinct from Martin Luther's well-known Small Catechism. However, their objective is the same: to teach the knowledge of the Christian faith. Philipp Melanchthon begins the catechesis with a grammar lesson for school-age children. I have divided my dissertation into five major units. The first part is about the life of Philipp Melanchthon. I will briefly talk about his childhood, his school years, and then about his personality, his family and his family life. I am interested in what Melanchthon was like as a child, who were the people who helped him, who took him in, so to speak. In the second part I talk about Melanchthon as a teacher. I was curious to know what Melanchthon was like as a teacher.

A dolgozatom témája a Brassóban kiadott magyar evangélikus káték a 18-19. században. A dolgozat célja, hogy felkutassa, összesítse az idők folyamán már feledésbe merült brassói magyar evangélikus kátékról rendelkezésre álló adatokat, valamint, hogy a dolgozat eredményeinek népszerűsítése révén visszahozza a köztudatba az erdélyi magyar evangélikus vallásos irodalomnak ezeket a példáit. Kutatásomhoz szükség volt levéltári kutatómunkára, valamint különböző szakirodalom elolvasására és feldolgozására is (egyháztörténet, teológiatörténet, liturgika, kateketika). Kutatásom célcsoportjához tartoznak mindazok, akik érdeklődnek az erdélyi magyar evangélikus egyháztörténelem, a katekizmus kialakulása és magyar területen való elterjedése, valamint az erdélyi magyar evangélikus vallásos irodalom iránt.

A 2Pt 1,5–7 erénykatalógusának magyar fordításai szembeötlő módon térnek el egymástól. E dolgozat célkitűzése: megvizsgálni a fordítások közötti különbségeket, és megkísérelni egy olyan fordítás elkészítését, amely a lehető legközelebb áll az eredeti görög szöveghez.

It is often argued that the sixteenth-century Reformation initiated a chain of events that ultimately led not only to religious pluralism within the body of the Western Christian Church, but also to the rise and dispersion of mutual acceptance among various religious groups. The fact, however, that these two things (i.e. religious pluralism and tolerance) did not emerge directly and immediately (almost as a matter of course) from the Reformation itself, is similarly undeniable. As we shall see below, we have sufficient evidence to claim that although the Reformers – including John Calvin, Theodore Beza and others, with whom this paper is partly concerned – at some point in their lives (mostly in their youth) advocated and invocated the cultivation of the spirit of tolerance, most of them refrained from upholding such positions once their situation as leaders within a newly emerged (both religious and political) community or realm became established.