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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.

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.

The spiritual atmosphere can be pure and impure, life nourishing or stifling. The physical atmosphere can also be pure or polluted, life nourishing or stifling. In this context pure air means the abundance of man’s physical living conditions, the pureness and the absence of harm in the whole ecological system, ensuring man’s living space. It also means the balance, which has to exist between the food- and energy resources of our planet for the daily needs of its 7 billion inhabitants. There is a highly tense struggle going on for clean air, habitable earth in ecological as well as economic aspects. Our thesis: it is significant in which spiritual medium this battle takes place. The mere spiritual medium can contribute towards the solution of the problems, which the more and more polluted physical and economic climate brings about.

Az Újszövetség keresztelésről szóló szövegrészei igen sokszínűek, ennek ellenére lényegében két csoportba sorolhatjuk ezeket. Az egyik csoportba olyan szövegrészek tartoznak, amelyek a történeti Jézushoz kötődnek. Ezekkel értelemszerűen a történeti iratokban találkozunk elsősorban, s így egy bizonyos „történetiség” határozza meg őket. A történetiség szót azért tettem idézőjelek közé, mert az Újszövetség történeti anyagának írásba foglalása általában későbbi az inkább elméleti jellegű levélirodalom darabjainál, és ezekben természetesen a történésekhez, az eseményekhez kötődve fogalmaznak. Bár nyilvánvaló, hogy a történeti Jézus alakjának felidézését a már létező egyház hitvallása, tapasztalata és gyakorlata is befolyásolta, ez a történeti jelleg mégis erősebb a nem történeti Jézussal foglalkozó írásokénál, ahol a személyes hitvallás és a már részben kidolgozott elvek az elsőrendűek