Repozitórium index

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.

Weather imagery plays a major role in Hosea. Hosea 2 recalls the image of an unfaithful wife; Hosea 4:2–3 describes the withering of the land; in 6:3; 10:12; 14:6, the several types of precipitation draw attention to the utterance of YHWH or the requested righteousness; in 9:10.13.16; 10:1; 13:5; 14:6.8, Israel is symbolised by different plants that blossom and wither, depending on their relation to Yhwh. In all of these instances, weather phenomena contribute to these images. In this article, I try to catalogue and evaluate the metaphors and concepts to look at how meteorological images convey theological and historical messages, and vice versa how historical events or sociological procedures demonstrate their consequences in nature, especially in the weather. It seems that weather imagery is used to describe the consequences of idolatry, injustice and false politics.

Amikor a Dán 4-et olvasom, arra gondolok, hogy milyen módon is függ össze a politika és a politikus. Talán úgy, hogy van egy fogalom a maga jellemzőivel, amelyekből kirajzolódik egy kép, és ebbe illeszkedik bele egy személy, aki a politikát esetleg foglalkozásként műveli, és abból él. Ennek a mércének valahol az egyház is megfelel. Mert nem mindegy, milyen az egyház, milyen jellemzői vannak, és az sem mindegy, hogy milyenek annak tagjai, illetve hogy a fogalom miként határozza meg azokat, akik azt képviselik, és rajtuk keresztül milyen kép alakul ki mások szemléletében. Ebben az összefüggésben az egyházpolitika fogalmának is van üzenete. A fogalom arra utal, hogy valamilyen módon kapcsolat áll fenn az egyház és a politika között. Akármilyen is legyen a politika, abban ott van az egyház, annak tagjai meghatározhatják a politikát, nem beszélve azokról, akik közöttünk élnek, és politikusként egyházi emberek.