Diakonia - Evangélikus Szemle, 1979
1979 / 1. szám - Summary
95 Diakonia Lutheran Review Summary Zoltán Káldy, the presiding bishop of the Lutheran Church in Hungary, gives the main lines of the theological principles as well as the practical life in our church today starting with the title of our periodical publication deriving out of the ancient Greek word in the New Testament: Diakonia and explains the way for this publication how to fulfil its task in the church and in society. He defines and describes the very basis which our word in the New Testament: Diakonia comprises the universal Christian Church, the Lutheran Reformation,, and the Lutheran Reformation on the soil of Hungary. On this firm basis our publication tries to look for answers to the questions of our time and to respond to challenges of the days to come. In her study Katalin G. Györffy, art-historian, deals with the Lutheran church building at Nemeskér, renovated by the Inspectorate of Historic Monuments in Hungary recently. This church was erected in the period of the Counter-Reformation. This monument church-building at Nemeskér is situated some 30 tans from Sopron. Inside the church one finds a tasteful, well-structured wood-balcony and a so called pulpit-altar, the oldest in Hungary. The essay written by Bishop Ernő Ottlyk describes how our church met the democratical revolution of 1918 and after that the socialist revolution in 1919. The study supported by documents shows us clearly that the pastors of lower position wanted to have Changes inside the church and urged to find a way in the new situation. During the time of the Soviet Republic in Hungary (1919) one of the bishops: Béla Kapi (Transdanubian diocese) mentioned the changes with remarkable understanding and definitely with an openness. Publication of the Lutheran Church in Hungary Responsible Editor: Dr. Zoltán Káldy Editor: Imre Veöreös Editorai and Publishing Office: H—1088 Budapest, Puskin u. 12. Subscriptions to this adress too. Published every six month. Annual subscription Forint 100,— László Zolnay, archeologist, informs us about life in the royal court of the Hungarian king in the years of the 1520s. You could find people there who sympathized with Luther’s ideas and thoughts. Two other themes lead us to the age of Turkish occupation (1541—1686) and connected with recent excavations we are given some information about Protestant relics. István Bottá, pastor, church-historian, produces new viewpoints to the research work on the life-story of Mátyás Dévai called “The Hungarian Luther” by his contemporaries. His journey to Nurenberg and Wittenberg (1536—38) aimed to find a publisher for the first Hungarian translation of the New Testament. Tibor Fabiny, professor of church history, publishes now an unknown letter by Kossuth. 100 years ago among tb.e victims of the high-flood at Szeged there were the Lutheran chapel, school and parsonage too. The Lutheran parish members turned to Kossuth—who lived abroad in emigration that time—to intervene for some help. Kossuth directed the Lutherans of Szeged to the leadership of Evangelical Alliance in London accompanied by a letter of recommendation too. Imre Sulyok a composer, musicologist deals with the Lutheran connection to the Liszt’s life-work. Sulyok analyses the works using or elaborating choral melodies; he discusses psalms using Luther’s or Herder’s texts; he deals with other works related to Lutheranism in some ways. Sulyok takes also the transscriptions of Bach works into consideration and gives an account of the event When the Christ Oratory by Liszt was performed in a Lutheran church here as a premier conducted by the componist himself. Beside these selected articles a table of contents may also be found in English and in German.
