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Although György Enyedi’s (1555-1597) posthumous exegetical masterpiece Explicationes (Cluj, 1598) did not contain any explicit statements on political thinking, his Hungarian sermons testify his theoretical interest towards political philosophy. The paper focuses on sermons 67, 68 and 184, wherein Enyedi formulates his version of natural law. Due to his antitrinitarian theological presuppositions and his philosophical anthropology deeply inherent in the former, Enyedi’s position does not match fully the standard versions of natural law of his time. on the one hand, Enyedi’s approach proves to be much more intellectual in character than the voluntaristic correction of Thomist natural law in Scholastic-Suáresian theory. on the other hand, the antitrinitarian dismissal of original sin as a chief anthropological motif results in differences from the protestant natural law tradition, as Melanchthon developed it in the 1530s.

Tótfalusi Kis Miklós sorsát, élete eseményeinek alakulását alapvetően meghatározta a Biblia: mondhatjuk, minden jó és minden rossz abból származott, hogy a 17. század utolsó évtizedeiben időszerűvé váló bibliakiadás ügye éppen őt találta meg. A Szentírás azonban nemcsak a külső sors alakulását befolyásolta, hanem belső világát is, hiszen Tótfalusi teológiai képzettséggel rendelkezett.