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Pünkösdi Teológiai Főiskola

Ildikó Imriné Erdei (PhD)

Adjunct professor
erdei.ildiko@ptf.hu

Introduction

I am Ildikó Imriné Erdei, the happy mother of a little boy and a little girl, whom my husband and I try to raise with great love. I was converted at the age of fifteen, which was a major turning point in my life and forever pointed me in the direction of a life of service. I was baptized in a Baptist church, and then joined a Pentecostal community. In 1998, I graduated as a theologian-pastor at the Pentecostal College of Theology, and immediately after that, I joined my pastor as a full-time colleague, where I mostly did the catechetical service of the community for fifteen years. In 2014, I obtained a master's degree in religious studies at the Reformed University of Károli Gáspár, and in 2023 I defended my doctoral dissertation on the theology of Isaac Newton at the KRE Faculty of Religion. In my civil life, I am a member of the multi-person leadership team of the Új Reménység church in Csepel. My area of ​​interest is church history (especially messianic - Jewish church history, radical reformation), patristics, hermeneutics, philosophy and theology - and the relationship between natural science and theology. I really like to sing, read and feel privileged to talk to other people. I want to learn all my life.

Teachers' "ars poeticam": But do not be called teachers, for one is your teacher, and all of you are brothers. And do not call anyone on earth your father, for one is your Father, who is in heaven. And do not be called teachers, for one is your teacher, the Christ. And whoever is greatest among you must be your servant. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted. Mt 23:8-12

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Publications:

2026.

  • Ildikó Erdei: “Conflicts between me and my congregation, or the market is at a standstill.” It's Time to Believe: Pentecostal Faith Magazine, 2026/2, pp. 10–13.
  • Ildikó Erdei: “Isaac Newton on the divine and human will”. In: Gábor Kendeffy – Emőke László (eds.): Faith, Grace, Will: Theological and Philosophical Approaches in Antiquity and Early Modern Times. Budapest: Károli Gáspár Reformed University, 2026, pp. 265–283.
  • Ildikó Erdei: "What does it mean to be a member of a church?" It's Time to Believe: Pentecostal Faith Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 1, 2026, pp. 10–13.

2025.

  • Ildikó Erdei: “The 'God of the Old Testament' and the 'God of the New Testament'”. It's Time to Believe: Pentecostal Faith Magazine, 2025/3, pp. 10–12.
  • Ildiko Erdei: Isaac Newton's Secular Theology: A Philosophical-Methodological Introduction. Budapest: Typotex Publishing, 2025.

2024.

  • Ildikó Erdei: “Reader-centered criticism and Origen’s homilies, or the Christological key as the appropriate reader’s response”. In: Gábor Kendeffy – László Perendy (eds.): In Dialogue with the Church Fathers: The 21st Conference of the Hungarian Patristic Society on Ancient Christianity. Budapest: Hungarian Patristic Society, 2024, pp. 40–56. (Studia Patrum, ISSN 1787-1299; 12.)

2023.

  • Mónika Göntér – Ildikó Erdei: "Is it all over? Those who are considering suicide don't want to die, they just don't want to live like this anymore." BRIDGE: Evangelical Magazine, Vol. 72, No. 4, 2023, pp. 30–31.
  • "Christians and the Church." In: Rozgonyi Botond; Erdei Ildiko; Sitku, Tibor: It's good to believe! (student volume) Budapest: Pünkösdi Teológiai Főiskola (2023) 74-132.
  • "Christians and the Church." In: Tibor Sitku; Rozgonyi Botond; Ildiko Erdei: It's good to believe! (teacher's volume) Budapest: Pünkösdi Teológiai Főiskola (2023) 60-128.

2021.

  •  “Isaac Newton: 'I do not invent hypotheses'” Hungarian Philosophical Review 2021/3. Volume 65, 182-196.
  •  Isaac Newton: Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy – “General Explanation”; “Scholium generale”; 3rd edition, 1726. In: Vassányi, Miklós; Kutrovátz, Gábor, A certain symmetry of the world: The
    history of early modern astronomy in the light of selected sources, Budapest: Typotex Kiadó, 2021. 269-282.
2020.
  •  “Cyril of Jerusalem and Arianism” in: Body and Society in the Patristic Age, Studia Patrum series, Debrecen: Debrecen University Press, 2020. 98-118.
2019.
  •  Isaac Newton Irenicumyes, or the scriptural defense of religious patience, REVIEW OF RELIGIOUS SCIENCES XV./1. PP. 31-46. (2019)
  •  Erdei I., Kutrovácz G., Vassányi M. “Isaac Newton: General Explanation” – Source publication with introductory study. In: Reason and Emotion in European Thinking. Edited by Olay Cs. Schmal D. Budapest: KRE, L'Harmattan, 2019.
2018.
  •  "Isaac Newton on true religion, In: Péter Hubai (Ed.) About the true religion 660 p. Conference volume, Budapest: Wesley János Pastoral Training College, pp. 2018 160-196.

2017.

  •  Review: Christian Scholars' Understanding of the Soul and the Spirit, EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF MENTAL HEALTH (ISSN: 1788-4934) (eISSN: 1788-7119) 12 (2017): (119-123) pp. 119-123. (2017)

2016.

  • Review: Religions about the soul, CREDO: EVANGELICAL WORKSHOP XXII.: (3-4.) p. 93. (2016)
  • Ildikó Erdei, Nóra Somogyi: Review: Encyclopedia of the Soul REVIEW OF RELIGIOUS SCIENCES 12: (5) pp. 140-149. (2016)
  • “Isaac Newton and Socinianism” In: Gábor Zila (ed.) "Lord, let me see!". 353 p. Place and time of the conference: Budapest, Hungary, 2015.10.23-2015.10.25. Budapest National Association of Doctoral Students, pp. 2016 33-46.
  •  “The Theology of Isaac Newton's General Scholium” In: Gábor Zila (ed.) "Lord, let me see!". 353 p. Place and time of the conference: Budapest, Hungary, 2015.10.23-2015.10.25. Budapest National Association of Doctoral Students, pp. 2016 18-33.
  •  The history of the origin of Isaac Newton's General Scholium, ORPHEUS NOSTER VIII.: (3.) pp. 77-86. (2016)

2015.  

  •  Isaac Newton's antitrinitarian Christology in the light of his early church history perspective, REVIEW OF RELIGIOUS SCIENCES XI.: (1.) pp. 91.-101.. (2015)
  •  “Theological Works of Isaac Newton” In: András László Gér, Péter Jenei, Gábor Zila (eds.) I believe to understand: Conference volume, National Association of Doctoral Students Religious Studies Department Young Researchers and Doctoral Students IV. International Theological Conference, 463p. 181-186. Budapest: KRE-L'Harmattan, 2015.

2014.  

  •  Ildikó Erdei, Nóra Somogyi: Short summary of the conference “Concepts of God and Arguments for God in the World's Philosophical Tradition”, REVIEW OF RELIGIOUS SCIENCES X.: (3-4.) pp. 190.-195.. (2014) God Concepts and God Arguments in the Philosophical Tradition of the World. Budapest, Hungary: 2014.05.09 - 2014.05.10.
  •  Analysis of Isaac Newton's manuscript Twenty-three Questions on Homoousios, ORPHEUS NOSTER VI.: (3.) pp. 58.-74.. (2014)

2013.  

  •  Review: Sir Isaac Newton: Observations on the Prophecy of Daniel and St. János about the apocalypse, ORPHEUS NOSTER V.: (3.) pp. 112.-118.. (2013)

2011.

  • Foundation (catechetical book with Pentecostal spirituality) Budapest: Segítség Köve Foundation, 2011.

Conference – presentations:

July 2–4, 2026 – “Discretio spirituum: The distinction between mental disorders and demonic influence in Cassian”. The Hungarian Patristic Society’s jubilee, 25th national conference.

May 28, 2026 – “Why Read the Book of Revelation According to Newton?” Apocalypse Now? Apologetics-Eschatology Conference, Pünkösdi Teológiai Főiskola (PTF).

July 4–6, 2024 – “The Pneumatology of Cyril of Jerusalem.” XXII National Conference of the Hungarian Patristic Society, entitled “Soul Conceptions and Soul Therapies. ”

May 2023 and 22, 23. Isaac Newton on Divine and Human Will, Faith, Grace, Will. Conference Theological and Philosophical Approaches in Ancient and Early Modern Times, Károli Gáspár Reformed University Faculty of Religion.

June 2022-23, 25 Reader-centered criticism and early Christian homilies, Hungarian Patristic Society XXI. The conference entitled "The actuality of ancient Christian culture". Szent Mauricius Monastery, 8427 Bakonybél, Szent Gellért tér 1.

June 2022, 4 "Isaac Newton's Resistance to the Method of Natural Theology" KRE VIII. Conference Rerum Divinarum VIII. "Natural Theology - Systematic and Historical Approaches" conference.

February 2021, 5. Isaac Newton: Hypothses non fingo, Collision Points 8. DOSZ Department of Philosophy Conference, National University of Public Service, Online conference

December 2020, 4. Isaac Newton: Regulae philosophandi, online institute lecture of the MTA BTK Institute of Philosophy and the Early Modern History Workshop (KÚFIM)

October 2018, 26. Isaac Newton's Irenicum, or the theological defense of religious tolerance, Religious persecution conference, KRE BTK

May 2017-26, 27 Philosophical approaches to the six-day creation in the correspondence between Thomas Burnet and Isaac Newton, Conflict points 4. KRE HTK

April 2017 - May 29, 1.  Isaac Newton on True Religion, Location: Symposium on True Religion, Wesley János Pastoral Training College

First semester 2016/17: Lecture series entitled The Unknown Isaac Newton , Pest Academy of Humanities, ELTE Faculty of Arts

— The Unknown Intellectual Legacy of Isaac Newton, January 2017, 11

— Newton the Philosopher January 2017, 18

— Newton the Alchemist January 2017, 25

— Newton the Theologian, February 2017, 1

2016. Isaac Newton, the Christian alchemist, Researchers' Night, Bp. September 2016, 30. KRE BTK

2016. Is gravity a miracle? The philosophical-theological discussion of the law of mass attraction in the early modern period, Péter Losonczi Memorial Conference, Bp. June 2016-29, 30. KRE BTK

2016. The Newtonian miracle concept and its apologetic role, Collision Points 3. DOSZ Philosophy Department conference, May 2016-20, 21. Bp. University of Technology

2015. A naturalist who believes that God created the world, or Isaac Newton's design arguments, Researchers' Night, September 2015, 25. Bp. KRE BTK

2015. Theology of Isaac Newton's General Scholium, DOSZ HTO VI. International Theological Conference, October 2015-23, 25. Bp. KRE HTK

2014. Isaac Newton and Socinianism, DOSZ HTO V. International Theological Conference, October 2014-24, 26. Bp. KRE HTK

2014. Cyril of Jerusalem and Arianism, The Hungarian Patristic Society XIV. Conference, June 2014-26, 28. Esztergom

2013. Theological works of Isaac Newton, DOSZ HTO IV. International Theological Conference, November 2013, 30. Bp. KRE HTK

2010. The secrets of the origin of the Old Testament, Batthány Science Days, Kázmér Batthány High School, March 2010, 2. Szigetszentmiklós

2003. The Jewish Jesus (Theological Day of the Evangelical Pentecostal Community and the Christian-Jewish Society, Bp. Gizella Street.)

Fees:

At the 2015 XXXII. OTDK competition, I won 2nd place in the section on faith and religious studies with my thesis entitled “ Isaac Newton's antitrinitarian Christology, especially in the light of the Twenty-Three Queries about the Word Ὁμοούσιος manuscript in the context of the early Enlightenment”.

Memberships

  • General Body of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (member)
  • Hungarian Patristic Society (member)
  • Hungarian Philosophical Society (member)
  • College of Doctors (member)

He teaches at the following courses

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BA in Theology

Pastoral psychology
  • Hybrid training available

Develop yourself under the guidance of authentic, practicing spiritual care instructors, in an honest and inspiring atmosphere! We look forward to your pastoral psychology training so that you can help those who need it.

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BA in Theology

Pastoral associate
  • Hybrid training available

You want to serve, but you feel that enthusiasm is not enough: do you also want to learn? Do you want to build fruitful and growing communities and carry out effective mission work? We will help you with this in our training.

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BA in Theology

Christian social work
  • Hybrid training available

Are you interested in individuals, families, groups and communities living in difficult situations and struggling with problems? Do you have experience that people are happy to turn to you with their problems? Do you enjoy helping others and would you like to learn about social work? Apply for our training and do your part to become more professional in your work for people in difficult situations.

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BA in Theology

Christian child and youth advocate
  • Hybrid training available

Do you also think that helping families and children is a key area? Would you like to take part in this work and help those in difficult situations? Sign up for our training and do your part to ensure that families and children function healthily and develop - both physically and mentally.

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Theology MA

Christian family counselor
  • Hybrid training available

Find out how you can help during consultation with families in such a way that the family activates its own strength and becomes stronger during effective problem solving than it was before the crisis!

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