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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.

Varga Zsigmond életútja, sorsa azért különleges, mert a magyar történelem egyik viharos szakaszának hamisítatlan lenyomatát láthatjuk benne. Ha visszatekintünk a számára adatott hét évtizedre, és személyes sorsát ennek az időkeretnek históriájában szemléljük, akkor ez az időszak a magyar kultúrtörténet egyik utolsó fénykorát, az első világháborút, a két világháború közötti éveket, a második nagy világégést és egy újabb sötét kor kezdetét öleli fel.