The Dream of Freedom, Peace and Order: Natural and Divine Law in the Works of a Unitarian Bishop from Sixteenth-Century Transylvania

Borbála Lovas

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Chapter 7 The Dream of Freedom, Peace and Order

Natural and Divine Law in the Works of a Unitarian Bishop from Sixteenth-Century Transylvania

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Pages:: 191–223

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004545847_008

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Abstract

Much of the scholarship on the Unitarian Church that emerged during the Reformation in the Principality of Transylvania has dealt with theological concerns. This paper rather examines the degree to which one of the major Unitarian figures, György Enyedi, engaged with the concept of divine law and natural law in the late sixteenth century through his sermons, in which he addressed a range of topics – including divinity, miracles, human behaviour, conscience, moral law, property, the social order, state theory, the ethics of war and civil law. A study of these topics reveals how the Unitarian articles of faith were tied to earlier traditions but also involved many ideas that would later be systematized by philosophers in the seventeenth century. Given that copies of Enyedi’s magnum opus, Explicationes, was in the possession of such writers as Locke and Newton (and general readers from Adrian Heerbord, Samuel Pepys and Robert Sharrock to Richard Allestree, Thomas Gataker and William Wake), Enyedi’s views on the oneness of God, the freedom of religious belief (and the true religion), and the role of minorities in society, are deserving of closer attention.

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Early Modern Natural Law in East-Central Europe

Series: Early Modern Natural Law: Studies & Sources, Volume: 5

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004545847

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 20 Apr 2023

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- History
  - Early Modern History
  - Legal History
- Slavic and Eurasian Studies
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Part 1 Poland-Lithuania

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Natural and Divine Law in the Works of a Unitarian Bishop from Sixteenth-Century Transylvania

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