Egyháztörténeti Szemle 17. (2016)
2016 / 1. szám - SUMMARIES IN ENGLISH - Nagy-Ajtai Ágnes: The Mission History of the Hungarian Pentecostal Movement: Early Years - Bánkuti Gábor: The Dispersion of Holy Orders in Romania
72 Egyháztörténeti Szemle, XVII/1 (2016) The Mission History of the Hungarian Pentecostal Movement: Early Years Nagy-Ajtai, Ágnes The Pentecostal doctrine arrived in Hungary from the United States in the 1920s. There had been some smaller groups founded earlier, but cooperation was initiated by the missionaries of the Assemblies of God. From 1926 the Hungarian Pentecostal congregations have had meetings at the annual conference where they adopted a public regulations concerning the rules of the assembly, and they also organized the mission works altogether. National and local sphere mission workers were supported by them and they launched a national paper, called Apostoli Hit (Apostolic Faith’) where readers were able to read the sermons, news of the community and the reports of the believers. They organized revival meetings where the assemblies of the region met, also open-air services (baptism, wedding, funeral) to make the most unbeliever people get familiar with the assembly. Every member was strongly identified with the duty of spreading the good news, which was what preachers and the articles of Apostoli Hit called the believers to do. The Pentecostal manifestations such as loud prayer, speaking in tongues received so much attention at that time and the Pentecostal believers, called ‘sectarians’ were regularly harassed by the outsiders. The study will present the peculiarities and particulars of communal life as well as the description of the duties and working conditions of mission workers. Their collaboration was one of the most important contribution to spread the movement. The Dispersion of Holy Orders in Romania Bánkuti, Gábor The study investigates the circumstances of the dispersion of the Romanian holy orders using mainly the relevant literature written in Romanian, various memoirs and official documents and partly archival sources. It introduces the events connected to the Greek and Roman Catholic monks taking into consideration the historic conditions of Romania and the features of the religious policy of the communists and placing them into the context of their relevant denominations and ethnic groups. It reveals the circumstances of the elimination of the Greek Catholic orders and details the legal context, the preliminaries and the consequences of Resolution Nr 810 of the Council of Ministers on 29th July 1949 which banned the operation of most of the Catholic orders. It follows the fate of the Jesuits and the Franciscans, who were not affected by the resolution, their forced relocation, their expectations after the release of Áron Márton from prison (1955) and their strategies. The study analyses the story of the remaining orders until their legal status was annihilated by the amendment of the Law on Culture in 1959.
