Magyar Egyház, 1958 (37. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1958-05-01 / 5. szám
12 MAGYAR EGYHÁZ NATIONAL EXPERTS CONSIDER RELIGION IN THE ATOMIC AGE A unique conference “to consider comprehensively how the spiritual resources of this country can be mobilized to save us,” concluded two days of discussion recently in Chicago, 111. Sponsored by the Federated Theological Faculty of the University of Chicago, it brought together prominent theologians, educators and business executives seeking answers to the new human problems posed in an atomic age of satellites and guided missiles “We are convinced,” declared Dr. Jerald C. Brauer, dean of the Federated Faculty, “that only religion can provide man with a saneness of mind, a critical judgment and a resource for genuine give and take that will enable him to cope with the tremendous potentialities which have arisen within the atomic age.” Gardner Murphy, director of research of the Menninger Foundation urged the development of “a broad and rational perspective” toward new efforts to develop a “strategy for peace,” while warning of the “hypocrisy” of racial and religious discrimination throughout most of the Christian world. k k k RUMANIA A new church has been dedicated in Bucharest, Rumania, by the one-thousand member Hungarianspeaking Lutheran congregation. The total number of Rumanian, Hungarian and German speaking Lutherans in Rumania is over 200,000. k k k Mr. Paul Young, missionary among the wild tribes of the State of Mato Grosso, Brazil, intrigued the local people when he first went there by receiving small pieces of paper (his mail) and sitting and staring at them. They asked him why he did it, and he explained that he received news in this way. Later they saw him reading the Bible, and he explained that from this book he got news of the great Father —God. After that the people came to him asking, “What news is there today from the Great Father?”—giving him just the opening he wanted to tell them of God’s love. (Bible Society Record.)--------------o-------------A DIFFERENT OPINION ABOUT TRIP TO THE MOON Expressing his views about man’s trip to the moon a minister in a small village in Britain said he hoped that after having solved the trivial task of landing on the moon the authorities would take up the gigantic task to provide electricity for rural areas without this technical wonder. MEGJELENT A SZTÁRAY HANGLEMEZ KIADÁS ELSŐ KÖTET - 12 ZSOLTÁR A PASSAICI MAGYAR REFORMÁTUS EGYHÁZ IS BERTALAN IMRE LELKIPÁSZTOR ÉNEKLÉSÉBEN. Kapható: a Passaici Ref. Egyház irodájában, 220—4th St., Passaic, N. J. — Ára $5.00 BISHOP MAY SPEAKS ON AUSTRIAN CONCORDAT NEGOTIATIONS WITH VATICAN (Vienna)—In a speech last month looking at the changes in the Austrian Protestant churches since 1945, Bishop Gerhard May has expressed the fear that the existing good relations between State and Church and between Roman Catholics and Protestants in Austria will break down under the “bewildering change in the negotiations for a concordaf’.A recent note from the Vatican to the Austrian government has refused to negotiate a new concordat for the country. Bishop May of the Protestant Church in Austria has pointed out that the demands of the Vatican are particularly dangerous to Protestant education. Under the concordat, set up in 1934 and still legally valid, the Roman Catholic Church has the right to build schools with a state subsidy, Bishop May said, and added that the concordat expressly declares that this project is intended “to provide a basis for the development of official Catholic state schools”. This would, Bishop May said, undermine all that has been achieved in Protestant education during the last ninety years, and surrender the majority of the 62,000 Protestant school children entirely to Catholic influence. “That must never happen,” he said. Because of the current political situation, Bishop May said it was his opinion that it would prove impossible to meet the demands of the Vatican, but, he warned, Protestants must keep constantly on the alert because Rome has “tremendous staying power”. E.P.S., Geneva CATHOLIC-PROTESTANT DISPUTE OVER GERMAN CATHEDRAL ENDS (Cologne, Germany) — Plans to re-establish a Cistercian abbey in Altenberg, near Cologne, and to use the cathedral there as the abbey church, have been cancelled by the Roman Catholic Church, ending a year-long conflict between the Roman Catholic and the Protestant churches in the Rhineland. Protestants have regarded the proposed Catholic project as a violation of the official state agreement drawn up over a century ago, granting equal rights to both confessions in using the cathedral. The cathedral was restored by King Frederick William III on the condition that it should serve as a parish church for both Protestants and Catholics. The announcement by Joseph Cardinal Frings, Archbishop of Cologne, that the project had been abandoned, was hailed by Protestant leaders of the Rhineland as an “important contribution toward the preservation and strengthening of confessional peace”. (E.P.S., Geneva)
