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Colecția Blaj a Bibliotecii Filialei Academiei Române din Cluj reprezintă un important vestigiu cultural al greco-catolicismului din Ardeal. Nucleul bibliotecii este format din colecția mănăstirii basilitane ctitorite în 1747 cu hramul Sfintei Treimi. În același an a început activitatea seminarului diecezan. Se pare că cele două instituții au avut o bibliotecă comună. Cărțile au fost inventariate pentru prima dată în 1752. Materialul prezentat face parte dintr-o cercetare mai amplă, care vizează descrierea operelor teologilor protestanți din secolul XVI păstrate în colecțiile istorice din Ardeal. În Colecția Blaj a Bibliotecii Filialei Cluj a Academiei Române se găsesc 421 de tipărituri din secolul XVI.

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.

Az Erdélyi Református Egyház 16–17. századi szerkezete sok hasonlóságot mutatott a nyugat-európai református egyházi modellel, amelynek intézményei – a presbitérium kivételével – már a 16. század közepén létrejöttek Erdélyben. A presbitériumok felállításának elmaradását főként az magyarázza, hogy az erdélyi az erdélyi társadalom nem a polgári demokráciára épült, egy meglehetősen feudalista rendszerre, következésképpen a társadalom alsó rétegei nem befolyásolhatták sem a helyi közösségek, sem pedig az ország irányítását. Ezért a presbitériumot mint nyugati demokratikus egyházi intézményt nem lehetett beépíteni egyházi kormányzatba. Így az egyházi kormányzat legalacsonyabb szintje a classis vagy dékánság (synodus specificis) zsinata volt, amelyet a dékán (nyugaton: felügyelő) vezetett.

Dolgozatom fő kérdése az, hogy mit ért Hóseás könyve Isten ismeretén. E fő kérdés megválaszolása rendjén, egy nagyobb ívű bevezetésben részletesebben is tárgyalom Hóseás könyvében az istenismeret tematika megjelenését. Pontosan, arra keresem a választ, hogy mit is jelent az, amikor Hóseás így nyilatkozik: „megismered az Urat” (Hós 2,19).