Egyháztörténeti Szemle 15. (2014)
2014 / 2. szám - SUMMARIES IN ENGLISH - Tamási Zsolt: Preparing for the National Synodus in 1848. Interpretations of the High Priests and the Clergy - in the Mirror of the Transylvanian Dioecesan - Rada János: Etatism, Liberalism and the View of the Church in the Controversial Pamphlets Written in the Time of Dualism
94 Egyháztörténeti Szemle XV/2 (2014) Preparing for the National Synodus in 1848. Interpretations of the High Priests and the Clergy — in the Mirror of the Transylvanian Dioecesan Tamási, Zsolt After the national synod plan was cancelled in 1848, the top priesthood and the radical minor orders lagged behind, being put into words, the interpretation was different. They tried to obtain validity for the diocesan synodical level for the proposals in progress while they emphasized the preparatory character .The reason of this is, that the diocesan synodical decisions can be put into life without papal approval, while the decisions in the national synod's it is necessary to submit to Rome. Rome did not look with a good eye at the national synods, so who pressed the reforms; needed to be approach to the diocesan synod. We see that the bishops did not make time for the diocesan synods’ keeping in most bishoprics in national relation, that they let them prevent the radical endeavours. Diocesan synods is getting to the row at the same time preserved the preparatory character in his case. Because of the cancelled national synod these were unfinished, and left over. The same in Transylvania, too. The preparation of the diocesan synod kept in Transylvania graphically on the other hand, how these different interpretation forms appeared. Etatism, Liberalism and the View of the Church in the Controversial Pamphlets Written in the Time of Dualism Rada, János The civic development and the reforms of the ecclesiastical policy generated tensions between the Catholic Church and the civic state in the 19th century Hungary as well. Earlier, the ecclesiastical history writing that drew a rather dark picture of this period, described this conflict as a complex conflict of liberalism and Catholicism in which the Catholic Church lost its former privileges. The essay scrutinizes the anticlerical literature of the age and it does not only point to the liberalist but the etatist ideas in the texts as well. The pamphlet literature inserted the ecclesiastical and ecclesiastical policy questions in such discourse, which was always about the power of the church and the sovereignty of the state. In fact, the texts always interpreted the ecclesiastical policy reform as a governmental-national self-defence fight against the Catholic, Church, which was a significant political factor in the country. However, it was felt possible even necessary to apply restrictions against the liberal human rights in this fight. Therefore, the etatist views became stronger. For example, the abolition of celibacy the liquidation of religious orders and denominational schools were also demanded. Later, during the cultural struggle in Hungary during the 1890’s, nationalist slogans started to appear more accented besides the liberal slogans in the discourse on the critics of the Church.
