The Struggle of Hungarian Lutherans Under CommunismTexas A&M University Press, 2006 - 160 páginas What does a religious community do when confronted by a political regime determined to eliminate religion? Under communism, Hungary's persecuted Lutheran Church tried desperately to find a strategy for survival while remaining faithful to its Christian beliefs. Appealing to the Lutheran Confessions, many argued that the church can do whatever is necessary to survive provided it does not compromise on its essential ministry, while others, appealing to the witness of the confessor Bishop Lajos Ordass, argued that the Church must uncompromisingly witness to the truth even if that means ecclesiological extinction. In The Lutheran Church in Communist Hungary, H. David Baer draws upon the disciplines of theology, history, ethics, and politics to provide a comprehensive analysis of the different strategies developed by the church to preserve its integrity. Relying on previously unnoted archival documents and other primary sources, Baer has made a substantial contribution to Eastern European studies. Vigorously written, his telling of the history is also a sensitive and moving account of courage and cowardice in the face of religious persecution. This book should be of interest not only to students of religion in Eastern Europe but also to anyone concerned about the problems that arise wherever there is religious persecution. |
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The Compromise Type In Search of a Modus Vivendi Ahogy Lehet | 27 |
Working with Dictators Totalitarianism and the Choices of Desperation 194956 | 39 |
The Collaboration Type Removing Choices and Affirming Socialism or Ahogy Lehet Gone Bad | 46 |
An Understanding with Dictators Hopes for a New Beginning 195658 | 62 |
The Witness Type A Readiness for Martyrdom a Challenge to Ahogy Lehet | 76 |
Service to Dictators The Church for the Building of Socialism 195887 | 91 |
The Diaconia Type Between Service mid Subordination or Ahogy Lehet Revisited | 110 |
The End of an Unresolved Argument | 123 |
Notes | 134 |
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Términos y frases comunes
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Página 22 - The church is the assembly of saints in which the Gospel is taught purely and the sacraments are administered rightly. (2) For the true unity of the church it is enough to agree concerning the teaching of the Gospel and the administration of the sacraments.
Página 19 - Behold, I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves; so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.