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Not all pastor's children remain close to the Church, despite the fact that they grew up in a religious environment and had the example and model of Christian living. The theoretical objective of my thesis is to explore pastor's children's motivations for living a pious life. For there can be external and internal motivation. The external motivation is when the pastor's child practices godly living and godly speaking, but not from an internal motivation, not from faith. They are not living a godly lifestyle because they feel they need to and because it is of value to them, but they are just living up to expectations. They behave and speak as expected by their parents, their congregation or their environment. They live godly lives either for external recognition and reward, such as the recognition of the church community or the pride of their parents, or perhaps to earn God's approval.

Miklós Telegdi, a Roman Catholic bishop of the reformation period, was an important figure of his generation. The confessional guide of his Agendarius, first published in 1583 in nagyszombat (Trnava, now in Slovakia), is particular as to its structure and content. in Hungary, this is the first penitential guide that was written in a unique style, including vernacular parts and containing exhortations in a large number. The confessional includes a text discussing the strict obligation on the seal of confession as well as a confession mirror which, according to its genre, is a tool of individual self-examination. In my paper, I attempt to answer the question whether Telegdi’s confessional guide is only unique from a national point of view or also in a wider, international context.

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.

Az egyházi közbeszédben hosszú ideig vita tárgyát képezte, és talán még ma is az, hogy milyen volt Nagy Gyula volt református püspök jelleme. Sokan mondták róla, hogy már jóval püspökké választása előtt behódolt a román titkosszolgálatnak, és végül ez emelte a püspöki tisztségbe, jutalomként besúgói szolgálataiért. Talán éppen ezért tartották többen gyenge embernek, tehát olyan püspöknek, aki a kötelező mértéket is meghaladva szolgálta ki a kommunista államhatalmat. Mások pedig azt emlegették, hogy a mérhetetlen hataloméhség hajtotta őt a Titkosszolgálattal való összefogásra, éspedig azért, hogy a püspöki székbe kerülhessen. Vannak, igaz kevesen, akik menteni próbálják, és azt hozzák fel védelmére, hogy a sűrű bebörtönzések után nem volt tanácsos ujjat húzni az agresszív és brutális kommunista hatalommal, és az egyház túlélése szempontjából sokkal előnyösebb volt reálpolitikát folytatni.