Egyháztörténeti Szemle 17. (2016)
2016 / 1. szám - SUMMARIES IN ENGLISH - Jávor Miklós: Breaking down ’reaction’, and the reorganization of the collaborative system in the Hungarian Calvinist Church and the Hungarian Lutheran Church after 1956
Summaries in English 73 Breaking down ‘reaction’, and the reorganization of the collaborative system in the Hungarian Calvinist Church and the Hungarian Lutheran Church after 1956 Jávor, Miklós The thesis surveys the communist restoration church policies after the suppression of the 1956 revolution, with its effects on the Lutheran and Calvinist Churches. The 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union started a destalinisation process. The home reception of the latter affected state and church relationship and line of church politics, which were discussed in the introductory part. Emphasis will be put on the so called Meeting at Galyatető with the participation of the historical Protestant churches in August 1956, which featured a criticism of the dictatorial church politics and clergymen in service of the system, for the first time since the beginning of the communist dictatorship. Further discussion detailed the role played by the Hungarian Lutheran and Calvinist Churches in the revolution. The central, and most important part of the thesis thoroughly examined the church politics methods, especially the reprisals and cleansing within the Hungarian Calvinist Church and the Hungarian Lutheran Church, furthermore the reorganisation of the collaborative church policy in service of the communist dictatorship. The thesis was built on related literature, as well as documents of the State Office for Church Affairs, which had been the top organisation of the communist dictatorship, and sources to be found in the Protestant press of the time.
