Szatmári Emília: Egy református igehirdetés stilisztikai elemzése. Enyedy Andor püspök prédikációja a Tiszáninneni Református Egyházkerület rendkívüli közgyűlésén Miskolcon, 1951. október 15-én

A stylistic analysis of a Reformed sermon. Bishop Andor Enyedy’s sermon at the extraordinary assembly of the Cistibiscan Reformed Church District in Miskolc on 15 October 1951
The text of my stylistic analysis is a short sermon by Andor Enyedy, the late bishop of the Cistibiscan Reformed Church District. In the summer of 1951 the state announced the communist program of shrinking the church, which included the plan to close the Sárospatak Reformed Theological Academy. The extraordinary assembly was on 15 October 1951, the church district refused this political will and expressed insistence on its institution – accepting the consequences. The assembly began with this short preaching of the bishop. I analyze the sermon, a church speech, as a non-literary text, according to the theories of István Szatmári and Gábor Tolcsvai Nagy. The impact of preaching is definable to the listener primarily in terms of the transmission or non-transmissions of the message, but at the same time a system of norms has crystallized in connection with preaching. Because of its content – proclaiming the word of God – we associate certain aesthetic-stylistic categories with it. We can say that the stylistic devices are related to the content, and the stylistic features of preaching can be interpreted in theological-dogmatic contexts.
Keywords: sermon, preaching, bishop, stylistics, Andor Enyedy