Gencsy Béla egyházvezetői tevékenységének főbb irányvonalai az államszocializmus idején

Szamborovszkyné Nagy, Ibolya (2023) Gencsy Béla egyházvezetői tevékenységének főbb irányvonalai az államszocializmus idején. In: Hagyomány, Identitás, Történelem 2022. Reformáció Öröksége (10). Károli Gáspár Református Egyetem Hittudományi Kar Egyháztörténeti Kutatóintézet, Budapest, pp. 269-294.

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Abstract

Béla Gencsy was the head of the Transcarpathian Reformed Church for thirty years. Although four decades have passed since his death (1982), neither his activity as a church leader and as a minister, nor his life has been revealed up to now. This fact encouraged the author to investigate the main directions of Béla Gencsy’s activity as a church leader, based on the contemporary documents of his activity as a moderator, then as a dean and finally as a bishop. In addition, the author sought to go beyond the one-sided characterization made of him as a church leader and to show the contradictory mechanisms of the possibilities defined by the given era and space, that determined not only the church leader’s activity, but also that of the Reformed parishes in Transcarpathia. The present study covers the period between 1949 and 1978. Because of the current state of research and the criteria set out, a primary source study was carried out based mostly on archival documents. The surviving contemporary documents revealed an ambivalent trajectory emerging from Béla Gencsy’s activity as a church leader. On the one hand, it is clear that he always and in any case wanted to observe and enforce the Soviet religious laws. On the other hand, his actions and reactions were steps taken in a give-and-take system, in return for which the bishop was granted the opportunity to raise and/or solve issues that had not been addressed before.

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