Kik Isten fiai? A második zsoltár a Pécsi Disputában
Who Are the Sons of God? The Second Psalm in the Dispute of Pécs

Summary/Abstract: In the sixteenth century there were antitrinitarian centers in Ottoman Hungary. This paper explores the situation and the credo of the antitrinitarians in Baranya, Pécs, using relevant information from the 1588 Pécsi Disputa (Dispute of Pécs), a polemic written by the antitrinitarian preacher, György Válaszúti.The second psalm is a very difficult point in the Unitarian-antitrinitarian polemic writings and confessions. This paper identifies the parts of the Dispute which are connected with this psalm, and compares them with the Transylvanian Bishop György Enyedi’s Explicationes.This comparison makes evident that the Unitarians in Pécs were more extremist than Enyedi’s. While Enyedi tried to connect with all the other Christian religions, György Válaszúti was an unapologetic nonadorantist. Perhaps this was due to the almost unique situation for the antitrinitarians in Pécs, where it was somewhat less complex then in Transylvania, where the politics and the religion were so tightly connected. In Baranya the Lutherans were forbidden by the ottoman leadership which was more permissive with the Unitarians, and the Roman Catholics had a good relationship with the antitrinitarians, so it is not a coincidence that other non- adorantists like Miklós Bogáti Fazakas showed up and hid in the city of Pécs.

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