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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.

This paper is an expanded and somewhat more elaborated version of an earlier study in which I tried to give a general overview on the word-usage concerning the passion of Jesus Christ in the early Christian creeds. The purpose of this short paper is in part to give a comparative presentation of the sufferings of Lord Jesus Christ in the Western Creeds, and in part I also try to define the role of mentioning the name of Pontius Pilatus in them.

Kelet-Európa egyházainak közelmúltját kutatva sokszor távolinak tűnő dolgokon keresztül ismerünk önmagunkra, míg közvetlen közelünk­ben inkább azt látjuk meg, ami megkülönböztet minket ezektől a dolgoktól. Néha titokzatos alakok bukkannak fel előttünk, máskor pedig ismert közsze­replők eddig ismeretlen vagy kevésbé ismert tetteiről hullik le a lepel, s mindez új megvilágításba helyezi a régi dolgokat. Mintha csak Leszek Kolakowski mondása igazolódna be, miszerint a történelem nem tanít sem viselkedni, sem sikeressé válni, viszont elmondja, kik is vagyunk valójában.

In this short paper I would like to provide a comparative analysis of the passages concerning the passion of the Lord Jesus Christ of the Early Christian confessions (among them the Apostolic Creed1 as well), because these passages are frequently the source of theological misunderstanding and debates. The main question which urged me to do this research had occurred in relation with the Apostolic Creed. How do we say correctly: ‘I believe in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord: Who was conceived of the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried; He descended into hell…’ or ‘I believe in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord: Who was conceived of the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered, under Pontius Pilate He was crucified, died, and was buried; He descended into hell…’? I shall try to answer this question by analysing the relevant passages of the creeds which were composed in the first six centuries.

Márk volt az első, aki a Jézusról szóló hagyományanyagokat összesítette, megalkotva ezzel az evangélium műfaját. Az egész evangéliumban azonban egyetlen alkalommal sem válik nyilvánvalóvá, hogy Jézus valóban az Isten Fia lenne. Ezt nevezi az újszövetségi szakirodalom „messiási titoknak”, amely csupán a keresztre feszítéskor, pontosabban Jézus halálakor válik nyilvánvalóvá a százados hitvallásából. Márk evangéliumának lényege tehát Jézus istenfiúsága, és az, amit Ő értünk tett. Ez az az örömhír, amelyet az evangélista tovább akart adni: a keresztesemény. Tehát Márk teológiai koncepciójának középpontjában a kereszt, vagyis a Megfeszített áll.