Finding the Future in the Past: Péter Pázmány’s "Felelet"
This article examines the historical perspective articulated by Péter Pázmány, a future primate of Hungary, in his first major vernacular work, produced in answer to what he saw as the calumniation of Hungarian Catholicism by the Protestant preacher, István Magyari. In this text, Pázmány offered an...
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| Format: | Electronic/Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2017]
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Reformation & Renaissance review
Year: 2017, Volume: 19, Issue: 1, Pages: 64-72 |
| IxTheo Classification: | KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance KBK Europe (East) KDB Roman Catholic Church |
| Further subjects: | B
early-modern Hungary
B providential belief B religious polemic B István Magyari B Péter Pázmány |
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| Summary: | This article examines the historical perspective articulated by Péter Pázmány, a future primate of Hungary, in his first major vernacular work, produced in answer to what he saw as the calumniation of Hungarian Catholicism by the Protestant preacher, István Magyari. In this text, Pázmány offered an alternative providential explanation for the disaster of the Turkish conquest in sixteenth-century Hungary. Magyari had ascribed the Turkish invasion to divine chastisement of the Hungarian nation for its sins, particularly because of the idolatrous nature of Catholic worship. Pázmány’s text offered an alternative reading emphasizing the discontinuity created by the Reformation, by linking the fall of the Hungarian kingdom to the advent of Lutheranism. Accordingly a realm, which had lasted for hundreds of years while the Catholic faith had been preserved, was swiftly overthrown when heresy began to sap it from within. |
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| ISSN: | 1462-2459 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Reformation & Renaissance review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/14622459.2016.1271554 |