Fabiny Tibor - Eretnekek or mártírok?

Heretics or Martyrs presents the work of two prominent figures of the early English Reformation, William Tyndale and John Frith, primarily through their religious debates with the great humanist Thomas More. With his Bible translation, Tyndale was a language-creating genius in the same way as Luther or Károli. About eighty percent of his Bible translations were taken over by the King James Bible, published in 1611, which was used until the beginning of the twentieth century.
The book sheds light on important theoretical and practical issues, such as the problem of meaning and translation of words. Concepts such as literal or figurative meaning, true teaching, heresy, martyrdom, disputation are given a new light. Although the author analyzes hundreds of years old texts, he points out that the original insight of the reformers regarding, for example, "the process of the text" is surprisingly relevant even for today's hermeneutics.
In presenting the conflict between the traditionalist and authority-respecting Tamás Morus and the passionate reformers, the author tries to understand both sides. The often sharp theological change of blade is still exciting today, but it is even more thought-provoking how much they were still able to stick to their conscience and convictions five hundred years ago. Within three years, all three sacrificed their lives for their faith; Morus as a Catholic, and Tyndale and Frith on the side of the Reformation.
The second part of the book is a selection from the writings of the three scholar-martyrs, a collection of texts that can be read here for the first time in Hungarian. Eretnekek or Martyrók was written both for academic needs and for a wider readership.
Literary writers, historians of ideas, English scholars, theologians, representatives of biblical interpretation or translation studies, experts of the early modern age, and lovers of old disputes that always stimulate thought can benefit from it.
TIBOR FABINY (1955) is a literary historian, professor at the Department of English at the Károli Gáspár Reformed University, head of the Hermeneutic Research Center. He has been teaching and researching here and abroad for more than four decades. His area of ​​expertise is 16th-century English literary history, Shakespeare's oeuvre, Renaissance iconography, the early English Reformation, the interpretation of the Bible and its history of influence. Since 1994, he has been the serial editor of the Hermeneutic Booklets. His latest book was published under the title Masks of God - Luther while reading (Budapest, L'Harmattan, 2021).