Boros György (szerk.): Értesítő a Nemzetközi Unitárius Conferencziáról (Kolozsvár, 1897)
A Nemzetközi Unitárius Konferenczián tartott beszédek és felolvasások - Beszédek és felolvasások
The importance of e minister ’s ealling from ecclesiastical, social, and national, points of view read by Mr. Francis Kozma curator of the Kolozsvár Unitarian College. The systematic religions of the world have, at the same time, been dominant on the state, and so are they, for the most part, to-day. Organization, legislation, military affairs, and social life, have all been directed, or checked, by them. Both science and art have owned their influeuce — and the peoples’ future, to a great extent depended on them. Herein lies the unparalleled historic import of the Priesthood. Owing to its allabsorbing sway, the temporal power had joined it, and here and there it succeeded on gaining the upper hand, or else they shared the spheres of dominion. And so it was also with Christianity whose external power, the Church, could not have been braved by any one, without sustaining a heavy loss. The Reformation, however, had struck a fearful blow on the ironclad of the Church. Then followed the Deists, the Encyclopaedists, and the French Revolution, which, apart from the striking, but transient details of warfare, had caused to appear a constant transformation that is being realized in ever widening circles, and in the drift of which the Christian world is more or less involved, viz. the separation between Church and State. Science, by dint of her gigantic achievements, has emancipated herself, and the temporal power, armed with these successes, is trying to do the same. The re
