Hol található az igaz egyház? Érvek, szerepek, játszmák egy többfordulós polémiában a 17. század első felében
Where is the True Church? Arguments, Roles, Games in a 17th Century Polemic

Summary/Abstract: The study deals with a series of polemics on the topic of the theology of the true church between the archbishop of Esztergom, Péter Pázmány and his Protestant adversary, the preacher of Nagyvárad Péter Pécsváradi. The dispute exploded on account of Pázmány’s booklet Az Sz. Irasrul, és az Anyaszentegyházrul, két rövid könyvecskék (Two short books about the Bible and the Church) published in 1626. Pécsváradi gave a 888 pages response to it three years later; the work was followed in 1630 by a next book of Pázmány, this time under the pseudonym István Sallai entitled Jó nemes Váradnak gyenge orvoslása (A weak healing for good and noble Várad). Then another retort followed by Pécsváradi (Kilenc okok, Nine reasons), but no copy of it has survived, the text is partly known from the information included in Pázmány’s Okok, nem okok (Reasons, which are no reasons), which closed the polemic. The analysis, while following the changing strategies of argumentation during the controversy (i.e. the process of becoming it more and more rough with less and less logically grounded arguments), tries to understand why the partners do not understanding each other (reasons concern different theological conceptions, mentalities, hermeneutical approaches).

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