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The Disputation of Pécs (Pécsi Disputa) by György Válaszúti is a unique segment of 16th-century antitrinitarian literature. Since pécs was occupied by the Ottoman empire, Christians had to live by strict rules. They had to live outside the city walls, and they could only use one church. The dispute is a chronicle of a religious debate between the reformed citizens of tolna and the antitrinitarian citizens of Pécs.

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.

Protestáns hagyományunkban hangsúlyos tantétel a sola scriptura elve, azaz, hogy mind az egyházi tanításunknak mind a tanítás tettekbe átültetett megnyilvánulásainak bibliai alapja kell hogy legyen. Nem lehet ez másként a hitvallás esetében sem. Annak, hogy megvalljuk a hitünket nyilvánosan, pontokba szedetten kinyilvánítjuk az álláspontunkat vallási és abból kiindulva más, társadalmi téren, bibliai gyökere kell hogy legyen. Nemcsak a tartalomnak kell a Bibliából kiindulnia, hanem a a megvallott hit gyakorlatának is. A kutatásban konszenzus, hogy e téren a deuteronomista mozgalom csúcspontot képvisel, éppen ezért kézenfekvő innen kiindulva vizsgálni a kérdést. E tanulmány az Ószövetségben keresi a hitvallásosság bibliai gyökereit.

Miloš Alexander Bazovský, a szlovák festőművészet egyik kiemelkedő alakja 1950-ben készítette az Ahasvér címet viselő festményét (33,7 × 24 cm). Ez a kép hátulról ábrázol egy emberi alakot, amint vándorbottal a kezében, félvállra vetett kabátjával, fáradtan ugyan, mégis egyenletesen lassú tempóban halad befelé a képen megjelenített tér mélységébe, amelynek végtelenségét a sötét égen világító hold hangsúlyozza.

Scout Movement in Transylvania. This study is a presentation about the history of the scout movement in Transylvania. The Hungarian scout movement in Transylvania started in 1911. After that many Hungarian scout team was founded. After 1914, when Transylvania became a part of Romania the Hungarian scout teams joined the Romanian scout association, which was founded in 1914. Between the two world wars the Romanian scout association was under the direct influence of the state. After 1940, when a part of Transylvania was connected to Hungary again, the Hungarian scout movement in Transylvania has also revived. The scout started many kind of good projects. They became a useful part of the society. The centre of the scout movement by that time was Kolozsvár.