Egyháztörténeti Szemle 15. (2014)
2014 / 1. szám - SUMMARIES IN ENGLISH - Rébay Magdolna: An Attempt of Solution for the Condition of Small Schools: the Notion of Pastor Teacherhood in the Calvinistic Church in the Horthy Period
Summaries in English 157 neous. Some of the counties were too progressive, the other part was moderate regarding the topic, considering that there are more social and economical problems worthy to waste energy and time to solve, than the problem of religious equality. That’s one of the main reasons why, in comparison with Hungary, the 1841-43 Transylvanian Parliament brought no breakthrough in matter of denominational equality of rights. An Attempt of Solution for the Condition of Small Schools: the Notion of Pastor Teacherhood in the Calvinistic Church in the Horthy Period Rébay, Magdolna Denominations’ losing estates during WWi and afterwards and the economic crisis of the first half of the 1920’s got denominational primary public schools with small number of attendants on the edge of termination. The maintainers trusted the help of the state in vain: it tried to decrease the amount of outcome in favor of its own budget. By virtue of the decree of religion and public education in 1922 schools were inspected: the number of students and the salary of teachers. The state revoked support from schools with fewer students than 30. Those could work on by self-effort. In an attempt to save these schools the idea of pastor teacherhood came up to be reestablished and generally used in the Calvinistic Church. The research took place with thanks to the MTA János Bolyai Research Scholarship and aimed to present the debates and the histoiy of the realization of the restitution pastor teacherhood. Our goals: 1. who took up the restitution of pastor teacherhood 2. what was the reaction of the Ministry, 3. how they managed the training of pastor teachers 4. what happened to the graduated pastor teachers? To answer these questions we chose the method of document analysis. Our sources were the printed and handwritten minutes of the Calvinistic Universal Convent and Presidium. Also, the minutes of the General Assembly of the Calvinistic Diocese and pedagogical, religious press. We also looked at previous literature (works of Péter Donáth, Antal Egey, Zoltán Fürj, József Ködöböcz, Ferenc Pölöskei and András Seri). The plan of restituting pastor teacherhood was launched in the end of the 1920’s in Calvinistic forums. Mainly due to the request of Géza Antal, Transdanubian bishop, the Convent also started to deal with the issue and it was ordered to organize the pastor teacher training in 1934. Out of the four diocese of the Calvinistic Church only three carried out the task and the trainings were different from each other. The students of theology thought the compulsory teacher training to be a burden, although later in the end they realized its advantages as well. In the 1930’s there was an increasing tendency of employing pastor teachers. The ministry accepted this solution. However, the training was terminated in 1942 because of the lack of pastors and problems (e.g. question of salary).
