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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.

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.

Szakdolgozatom témájaként az ifjúsági korszakváltás témakörét választottam, és egyben arra vállalkoztam, hogy ezt az ifjúságszociológiai fogalmat és annak tartalmát megpróbálom minél közelebb hozni az Erdélyi Unitárius Egyházhoz. Teszem ezt azért, mert megérzésem szerint az egyház ifjúsági munkájának stratégiájában némi váltásnak kell megtörténnie. Ez pedig csak úgy valósulhat meg, ha megfelelő, tudományos alapokon nyugszik. Az ifjúsági korszakváltás olyan valóságokat teremtett, amelyek előtt az egyháznak nem szabad szemet hunynia, hanem ezzel ellentétben, meg kell ismernie jelenségeit, és fel kell vegye velük a harcot.