Bűnkatalógus és politikai program Báthori Mihály prédikációiban

Erdős, Zoltán (2022) Bűnkatalógus és politikai program Báthori Mihály prédikációiban. ERDÉLYI MÚZEUM, 84 (1). pp. 91-100. ISSN 1453-0961

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Abstract

It is well known, that the essential aim of the 16th-17th century Protestant catalogues of sins was to exhort the audience of the sermons and the readers of the prayers to moral renewal, and thereby to conduce the deliverance from God’s punishment. We can find one of the most sophisticated catalogues in the sermons of Mihály Báthori, court preacher of Ferenc Rhédey, held in January 1658, printed six years later. The goal of this study is to throw new light on the sermons, and to interpret them as part of the political discourse during the 1657-1662 crisis in Transylvania. In this context it seems to be clear that the main aim of Báthori was not only to urge the moral renewal of the nation: he articulated a very actual political program as well. He argued for the reign of the newly elected Prince, Ferenc Rhédey, and against the returning György Rákóczi II.; he defined the moral rebirth as a single political act, as standing for the “pious prince”.

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