György Enyedi, in Latin Georgius Eniedinus (1555 – 28 Nov. 1597) was a Hungarian Unitarian bishop, moderator of the John Sigismund Unitarian Academy in

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and writer known as the "Unitarian Plato". Enyedi's major work was the posthumously-published

anti-Trinitarian Nontrinitarianism is a form of Christianity that rejects the orthodox Christian theology of the Trinity—the belief that God is three distinct hypostases or persons who are coeternal, coequal, and indivisibly united in one being, or essence ( ...

''Explicationes'' (1598) which circulated widely in Europe. The first Catholic refutation of the ''Explicationes'' was Ambrosio Peñalosa's ''Opus egregium'' (1635). According to Marshall (1994), Locke started his reading of Unitarian writers with Enyedi in 1679, before more extensive exploration of

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works 1685-86.

Works

A short biography and bibliography is included in Christof Sand's Bibliotheca Anti-Trinitariorum (1684). *''Explicationes locorum Veteris & Novi Testamenti, ex quibus trinitatis dogma stabiliri solet.'', 2nd ed. 1598, 3rd edition probably

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, 1670. *''De Divintate Christi'' *A collection of his sermons, that remained unprinted until the twenty-first century, though copied in various surviving manuscripts in Transylvania.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.

Unknown or mis-attributed works

*''Explicatio locorum Catechesis Racoviensis'' - Commentary on the

Racovian Catechism The Racovian Catechism ('' Pol.'': Katechizm Rakowski) is a nontrinitarian statement of faith from the 16th century. The title ''Racovian'' comes from the publishers, the Polish Brethren, who had founded a sizeable town in Raków, Kielce County, w ...

, 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 Fausto Paolo Sozzini (; ; 5 December 1539 – 4 March 1604), often known in English by his Latinized name Faustus Socinus ( ), was an Italian Renaissance humanist and theologian, and, alongside his uncle Lelio Sozzini, founder of the Nontrinit ...

. *''Preface for the Racovian New Testament'' - though Sand notes again that the two known Racovian translations, "of

Smalcius Valentinus Smalcius ( or ''Schmaltz''; ) (Gotha (town), Gotha, 1572 – Raków, Kielce county 1622) was a German Socinian theologian. He is known for his German translation of the Racovian Catechism, and Racovian New Testament (1606) translated fro ...

and Crell (sic) into Polish", and Stegman into German, both appeared after Enyedi's death.

References

External links

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
Hungarian Protestant ministers and clergy Hungarian Unitarians 1555 births 1597 deaths Unitarian Church of Transylvania {{Unitarianism-stub