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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.

Jeromos – Szent Jeromos, teljes nevén latinul: Sophronius Eusebius Hieronymus (Ιερώνυμος) (347–419/20) műveltségét a család, a korabeli római társadalom, a római tanulmányok, majd a kutató-könyvkereső útjai, a szerzetesközösségek-ben szerzett tapasztalatai, valamint a barátaival és ellenségeivel folytatott levelezése és polémiái határozzák meg. Életében, érzelemvilágában a görög, latin, héber, arám, szír nyelvi kultúra, valamint a pogány és a keresztény kultúra ötvöződik, vagy éppen küzd egymással. Mivel Afrikát, Hispániát és Britanniát leszámítva csaknem az egész Római Birodalmat bejárta, önmagában ötvözte a különböző kultúrákat. De életmód tekintetében is nagy tapasztalatokkal rendelkezett, meg-ismerte a pogány Róma, a filozófus Athén, a teológiai viták központjának számító Konstantinápoly és a különböző remeték és szerzetesek világát Galliától Szíriáig, Palesztinától Egyiptomig.

In the past decades, research has raised the idea of a theology of the Septuagint (LXX) on various occasions. Important works were recently published on this topic in the Handbuch zur Septuaginta and the Septuagint and Cognate Studies series. The general theological tendencies of the LXX are identified by scholars in eschatology, messianism, anti-anthropomorphism and angelology. These tend to all be regarded as further developments of the theology of the Hebrew Bible (HB). However, one can trace the evolution of these and other main topics of the LXX in the New Testament (NT) and in the later apostolic writings as well. Based on three concise case studies, I point out the evolution of theological ideas from the HB through the LXX up to the NT in this paper.