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Melanchton is usually considered as both a Humanist and a Reformer. Many of the books and studies written about him present him as a theologian. It is also worthwhile studying the Humanist intellectual components of his personality, since, after all, a great proportion of his works are ones which present him as a deep thinking, through intellectual, writing with sublime eloquence.

Laymen Institution in the Hungarian Reformed Church District of Transylvania. It has been disputed for the last few decades the possible presence and task of the laymen in the church government of the 16–18. Centuries Hungarian Reformed Church life in Transylvania. Arguments have been brought up to prove that as soon as the 16th century the West-European type Presbyterium has already started to gain terrain in the church. The study tries to come up with arguments to prove that the democratic church government according to which the Swiss, English, German, Dutch reformed churches had been doing the government in the 16–17 centuries was not present only in the synods’ records and has not became reality in the Transylvanian church life.

Aligha van olyan lelkipásztor, akit már zsenge teológus-diákkorában ne figyelmeztettek volna idősebb, tapasztaltabb lelkészkollégák, hogy a pénz, az anyagiak a lelkészi szolgálat legkényesebb pontja.

Önéletírásából kiderül, hogy olthévízi élete és szolgálata két jól elkülöníthető szakaszra osztható: 1743–1746 között Bethlen Kata udvari lelkészeként, 1746–1749 között pedig udvari és gyülekezeti lelkészként is szolgált a faluban.