Adatok a 20. századi, felvidéki református lelkészképzés történetéhez

Lévai, Attila (2023) Adatok a 20. századi, felvidéki református lelkészképzés történetéhez. In: Hagyomány, Identitás, Történelem 2022. Reformáció Öröksége (10). Károli Gáspár Református Egyetem Hittudományi Kar Egyháztörténeti Kutatóintézet, Budapest, pp. 467-474.

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Abstract

The Reformed Christian Church in Czechoslovakia (from 1993 Slovakia) had to train its own theologians in several places in the twentieth century. As a onsequence of the changes in the national borders after the Treaty of Trianon (1920), the church organized the training of pastors in Losonc and established a seminary that operated until 1939. Between 1939 and 1952, the theologians of the Reformed Church in the Upper Hungarian region studied mainly in the theological seminaries in Hungary, but the events of World War II. and the years that followed made it increasingly difficult for the ethnic Hungarian citizens in Czechoslovakia, who formerly studied theology in Hungary, to pursue theological studies in their mother tongue. This is because Czechoslovakia regarded Hungarians almost as enemies from 1948 onwards. Moreover, their elimination within the country was the aim of the deportation plans of the new Slavic state, facilitated by the discriminatory decrees of Benes, the population exchange and the reslovakisation. Although the state border with Hungary was almost impenetrable, many Hungarian students from Czechoslovakia managed to cross it to continue their studies in Hungary to gain proper theological education in their mother tongue. It was at this time that a series of negotiations took place between the Hungarian leaders of the Reformed Christian Church of Czechoslovakia and the heads of the Lutheran and other Protestant theological faculties in Bratislava and then Prague in order to guarantee the training of mostly Hungarian theological students in a Slavic-speaking context in the newly formed state. These negotiations led to the fact that the Reformed theologians (mainly Hungarian and a much smaller group of Slovakian-speaking Reformed people) in Czechoslovakia were ‘offered’ to continue their theological studies in Prague from the 1950s. This paper intends to present a critical analysis of these historical processes.

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