Diakonia - Evangélikus Szemle, 1992
1992 / 2. szám - Summary, Aus dem Inhalt
79 D1AK0NIA Lutheran Review Summary György Pál Gadó puts the question in his paper: Are we at a turning point or is there any prospect for changing our nature-destroying life-style? In the author’s opinion one of the most critical ethical questions is whether man will take into consideration long-term values and decide against immediate material interests. The article examines the most important human factors affecting the ecosystems including population growth, increasing levels of consumption and development of new technologies. To be aware of the facts it is hard to be optimistic, however the collapse of the Communist systems offers opportunity for environmentally sound new world order. With its huge Lutheran congregation, Békéscsaba is a significant centre of native Lutheran Slovaks, known always for their religious ardour. Besides the Tranoscius Hymnal, the church school and church literature, their religious life-style was succoured by traditions passed down from one generation to the other, mingled often with superstitions folk elements and beliefs. Under the title „Religious elements in Lutheran Slovak Folk and Religious Life at Békéscsaba”, the congregation’s retired pastor Gyula Dedinszky presents a selection from his extensive researches on this subject. The selected studies of Franz Rosen- zweig, the most significant Jewish thinker of personalism, were first published in Hungarian with the title „Nem hang és füst” (No sound and no smoke) in 1990. The essay of pastor László Donáth Publication of the Lutheran Church in Hungary Editor: Imre Veöreös Assistant Editor: László Bízik Editorial and Publishing Office: H—1088 Budapest, Puskin u. 12. Subscriptions to the above address. To be published as a quarterly Annual subscription: 280,— HUF. deals with the path of life of the last great thinker of the German Jews as wall as with his activities and speaks about the basic visions of the 20th century’s Christianity concerning its identity quest. „Whenever the idea of common roots from those forces forming the conviction was lost in the church history or on the way of the Jews all over the world (Romans, 11,18), the deep secret of the Jewish — Christian joining was hidden or lost. The separation has been followed by horrible and bloody consequences” — the author states. Imre Mécs one of the best known politicians of the Hungarian public life, being one of the leaders of the Association of Free Democrates, at the same time is a member of the Parliament for one district of the capital. The Lutheran pastor of this district is László Bízik, being the assistant editor of our journal at the same time. Naturally the discussion of these two persons starts with the local problems of the district and comes to the end at the political issues of the country, In the meanwhile from the prison-years of the politician up to the present problems of the nation everything comes inevitably to the surface. Their discussion is like a medical consultation, their findings may be considered as medical statements. In the „sick society” the church has not been able to keep her sound stability either and now is permanently tempted by claiming privileges. With modelling the community building and the moral life the church still can heal the society as a whole in order to introduce and stabilize the freedom, truth and love in it.
