Egy unitárius Szent Ágoston milánói kertjében. Losonczi B. András megtérése
A Unitarian in Saint Augustine’s Garden in Milan. The Conversion of András B. Losonczi

Summary/Abstract: The paper gives a unique approach to the story of András B. Losonczi’s conversion. Losonczi is the author of the Latin language work Arma militae in 1740 translated into Hungarian with the title Vitézségünk fegyvere (Th e Weapon of our Valour) in 1743. Losonczi gives a forceful presentation of his conversion and vision rarely seen before in the literature of religious debates, thus giving a unique perspective to the prophetic voice in his work. In the introductory part he gives an account of his prior seven years spiritual and intellectual fl urry that got him to such an abyss that he was trembling from distress. However he turned to God with a repentant heart and, gaining God’s ears, he was given two unambiguous messages. Th e peculiarity of his treatise is that the author comparing himself to Saint Augustine, considers the fi rst observed words of the Holy Scriptures as the message of God. It looks like a similar event happened to András Losonczi to the one given account by Saint Augustine in the 12th chapter of the 12th book of his Confessions, and that the Unitarian author recreates, with some modifi cation, and makes relevant again the much earlier story. It is important to note that the Confessions as a literary pattern is handled in a very inventive way almost without example in Hungarian self-revealing and confessional literature.

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