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Although György Enyedi’s (1555-1597) posthumous exegetical masterpiece Explicationes (Cluj, 1598) did not contain any explicit statements on political thinking, his Hungarian sermons testify his theoretical interest towards political philosophy. The paper focuses on sermons 67, 68 and 184, wherein Enyedi formulates his version of natural law. Due to his antitrinitarian theological presuppositions and his philosophical anthropology deeply inherent in the former, Enyedi’s position does not match fully the standard versions of natural law of his time. on the one hand, Enyedi’s approach proves to be much more intellectual in character than the voluntaristic correction of Thomist natural law in Scholastic-Suáresian theory. on the other hand, the antitrinitarian dismissal of original sin as a chief anthropological motif results in differences from the protestant natural law tradition, as Melanchthon developed it in the 1530s.

This is a study of Isaiah 18-20, three chapters in the so-called Isaianic prophecies concerning the nations, Isaiah 13-23 (24-27). Beyond being located close to each other in this literary corpus, there is at least one common element that ties these three chapters together: Isaiah 18-20 deal with two neighbouring countries of the Nile, Kush and Egypt respectively. The two lands were politically closely related in the era of the prophet Isaiah, so that addressing them in proximity to each other should not be surprising in a book set in the period of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah (Isaiah 1:1). Through a detailed analysis of the three chapters I hope to contribute to a better understanding of the collection of prophecies on the nations in the book of Isaiah and, more remotely, of the wider phenomenon of prophecies concerning the nations, so prevalent in the Hebrew Bible.

Reinhold Niebuhr etikájában, akárcsak társadalomszemléletében, különleges realizmussal szembesülhetünk. Ez a realizmus nem távolodik el a mennyei vonatkoztatási ponttól, viszont következetesen keresi a földi élet értelmét és etikai lehetőségeit. Reinhold Niebuhr számára nem kétséges, hogy a földi életet a maga Istentől kapott teljességében kell megélni, és tagadja azt a sztoikus megközelítést, amely a lélek zavartalanságában találja meg beteljesedési lehetőségeit. Az egyéni élet szervesen összekapcsolódik a közösségi léttel. Ez Niebuhr számára az egyik legfontosabb etikai kitörési pont, ugyanis ez már döntő lépés lehet az önzés leküzdésére.