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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.

The studies of this volume were presented originally at a Brueggemann-conference in the Protestant Theological Institute of Cluj-Napoca, Romania (April 24-25, 2012). This symposium was part of a study week organised by ministers from The Netherlands and Transylvania in Györgyfalva, near Cluj-Napoca, on the eve of the publication of the Hungarian translation of one of Brueggemann's most significant books, the Theology of the Old Testament.

Ez a téma és kérdésfelvetés korántsem új keletű – egyébként mi az, ami még annak számíthat a mai teológiában? Az egyház- és teológiatörténet során, amióta az Ószövetség bekerült a képbe, sokan és sokféle módon keresték már a választ a fenti kérdésre, és ezek eredménye számtalan könyvben és tanulmányban áll előttünk. Mindeközben azonban szakmai fórumokon, teológiai vitákban, gyülekezetekben, baráti beszélgetésekben, egyházi sajtóban, elektronikus levelezőlistákon megjelenő Ószövetséggel kapcsolatos negatív megnyilvánulások jelzik azt, hogy bár a téma nem újszerű, mégis igen aktuális marad.