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-TrinitarianExplicationes (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.
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
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
^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. ISBN9783525571293.{{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. ISBN978-90-04-44892-6.
^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
