HIS-Press-Service, 1977 (2. évfolyam, 5-8. szám)
1977-12-01 / 8. szám
HIS Press Service No.8. December 1977 Page 14 out. On the other hand, due to their own lack of training in the area of religious education, today's parents can be of very little help in this area. This situation practically turns the need for increased possibilities for evangelization, and especially for an increase in the number of religion teachers, into a question of the Church's continued existence. The continually increasing deficiency in the area of religious education, coupled with the small number of religion teachers, can lead to serious consequences:-The necessary aggiornamento of the Church is becoming more difficult to achieve due to a lack of solid spiritual preparatory work. The Church can not afford failures, however, since these destroy the willingness of the faithful for reform.- The average people could, to the detriment of religion, become caught up in ever greater numbers with consumptionnmaterialism.- The Christian view in questions concerning the truths of the faith could be falsified through mysticism and sectarianism, and the faithful thus be led astray.- Intellectual members of the faithful could run the danger of bypassing Christian solutions to problems brought up by Marxian ideology.- Both Christian participation in the building of society,and the dialogue between believers and non-believers, could suffer an extensive loss of the fundamental principles upon which they are based. As for the life of the average believer, the prospects for future development suggest a concentration in the direction of lived faith. Due to an insufficient number of personnel and a limited field of action, the aim of future endeavors cannot be a search for ways of passing on knowledge. The primary concern, therefore, will instead be that of finding a suitable way of introducing the faithful to the Christian way of life. In the future, therefore, theological views and laws will play a smaller role in the lives of the faithful. Emphasis will instead be placed upon love for ones neighbor and giving witness to Christianity through ones daily life. Hungary's Church is preparing itself to assume the role of being the yeast of society, though perhaps in the future in a smaller measure than today. . Published by the Hungarian Institute for Sociology of Religion /HIS/- President: Bishop Stefan László,D.D., Eisenstadt - EdîtorîaI Board : EmericAndrás,Ph.D. /Vienna/, Ju I i us More I, Ph. D. /I nnsbruck/, Julianna Ujváry M .A. /V ienna/. - A-1 140 Wien, Linzer Str.263/18, Phone /O 22 2/ 94 21 89. österr.Postsparkassenkto.: 7739 006. Eingentümer, Herausgeber und Verleger: Ungarisches Kirchensoziologisches Institut. Fürden Inhalt verantwortlich: Dr.Emmerich András, Beide: A-1 140 Wien. Linzer Str.263/18. Druck: OffsetschneI Idruck Anton Riegelnik, A-1080 Piaristengasse 19.
