György Enyedi, in Latin Georgius Eniedinus (1555 – 28 Nov. 1597) was a Hungarian Unitarian bishop, moderator of the John Sigismund Unitarian Academy in Kolozsvár and writer known as the "Unitarian Plato".[1]
Enyedi's major work was the posthumously-published anti-Trinitarian Explicationes (1598) which circulated widely in Europe.[2][3] The first Catholic refutation of the Explicationes was Ambrosio Peñalosa's Opus egregium (1635).[4] According to Marshall (1994), Locke started his reading of Unitarian writers with Enyedi in 1679,[5][6] before more extensive exploration of Socinian works 1685-86.
Works
editA short biography and bibliography is included in Christof Sand's Bibliotheca Anti-Trinitariorum (1684).[7]
- Explicationes locorum Veteris & Novi Testamenti, ex quibus trinitatis dogma stabiliri solet., 2nd ed. 1598, 3rd edition probably Groningen, 1670.
- De Divintate Christi
- A collection of his sermons, that remained unprinted until the twenty-first century,[8] though copied in various surviving manuscripts in Transylvania.[9]
Unknown or mis-attributed works
edit- Explicatio locorum Catechesis Racoviensis - Commentary on the Racovian Catechism, though Christopher Sand (1684) notes "in truth Enyedi died before the Racovian Catechism ... came to light", and concludes that it is a preface to an earlier catechism of Gregorio Pauli and Fausto Sozzini.
- Preface for the Racovian New Testament - though Sand notes again that the two known Racovian translations, "of Smalcius and Crell (sic) into Polish", and Stegman into German, both appeared after Enyedi's death.
References
edit- ^ Mihály Balázs, Gizella Keserű György Enyedi and Central European Unitarianism in the 16–17th centuries Balassi Kiadó, 2000
- ^ Lovas, Borbála (2019). "On the Margins of the Reformation. The "Local" and the "International" in György Enyedi's Manuscript Sermons and Printed Works". In Burton, Simon S. G.; Choptiany, Michał; Wilczek, Piotr (eds.). Protestant majorities and minorities in early modern Europe : confessional boundaries and contested identities. Göttingen. pp. 231–247. ISBN 9783525571293.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Lovas, Borbála (2021). "The Posthumous Reception of an Antitrinitarian Bishop at Home and Abroad: The Afterlife of György Enyedi's Explicationes". In Dillenburg, Elizabeth; Louthan, Howard Paul; Thomas, Drew B. (eds.). Print culture at the crossroads the book and Central Europe. Leiden: Brill. pp. 58–84. ISBN 978-90-04-44892-6.
- ^ Antal Molnár Sur la genèse d'une polémique catholique contre Enyedi
- ^ John Marshall John Locke: resistance, religion and responsibility 1994 Page 337
- ^ Mester Béla The Connection between the Unitarian Thought and Early Modern Political Philosophy 2002
- ^ Page 93-94 "M S. GEORGIUS ENIEDINUS Húngaras,"
- ^ Enyedi, György (2016). Lovas, Borbála (ed.). Enyedi György prédikációin. Budapest. ISBN 978-9635088263.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) - ^ Lovas Borbála, 'Másolási stratégiák Enyedi György prédikációinak hagyományozódásában' ('Copying Strategies in the Textual Tradition of György Enyedi's Sermons') Studia Litteraria 2013/3-4, 79-94.
External links
edit- English translation of Concio XCIV, a sermon from 1594 by György Enyedi
- English translation of Concio CXV, a sermon from 1597 by György Enyedi
- English translation of Concio CXCII, a sermon from 1597 by György Enyedi
- English translation of Concio CXCIII, a sermon from 1597 by György Enyedi
- English translation of Concio CXCIV, a sermon from 1597 by György Enyedi