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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.

Az Efézusi levél kutatásának mai irodalma igen gazdag. Ezt az új exegetikai termést szándékoztam összefoglalni és alkalmazni a magyar olvasók számára. Az Efézusi levél az ún. páli iskola tanítását képviseli, amely azzal a szándékkal foglalja össze Pál apostol hagyatékát, hogy azt egy új egyházi-gyülekezeti élethelyzetre alkalmazza. Mintaszerű az az eljárás, amellyel a következő kérdésekre válaszol: az egyház egysége, a gyülekezeti szolgálatok, a hívő ember harca a világi kísértésekkel, a keresztyének mindennapi élete a szűkebb és tágabb társadalmi egységekben. Ezenkívül a gyülekezeti istentisztelete formai és lelki gazdagságának bemutatása teszik érdekfeszítővé a levél olvasását és tanulmányozását.

The purpose of this study is twofold. First, it sets the historical context in which Aphrahat wrote his Demonstrations and deals with the interesting relationship between his writings, ‘against the Jews’ and the Sassanian persecution of Christians. It also treats his refutation of the Jewish charges. Secondly, it addresses his ‘unique’ view of christology which is not in line with the Nicene decision concerning one aspect yet at the same time it is congruent with it. The paper also tries to point out that his view on christology was ‘unique’ but not exceptional in the Early Church.