Fodor György - Török József - Tusor Péter (szerk.): Felekezetek az Igazság szolgálatában: történelem, teológia, önazonosság (1500-2000) - Studia Theologica Budapestinensia 34. (2009)
I. Catholic-Orthodox symbiosis in Transylvania (Katolikus-ortodox együttélés Erdélyben) - Ioan Chirila: Tolerance and intolerance in t he Transylvanian legislative corpora (the 16th-19th centuries)
TOLERANCE AND INTOLERANCE IN THE TRANSYLVANIAN LEGISLATIVE CORPORA (The 16th-19th centuries) Theoretical preliminaries: Tolerance - juridical concept or norm of a living together in a free society? In order to define the concept of “tolerance” in a way as comprehensive as possible, I will point out from the beginning that we introduce in our dissertation two concepts of tolerance: the civil tolerance and the religious tolerance. We have heard, at the reunions dedicated to tolerance, that the civil tolerance has its terminus a quo within the 17th century, that societies eminently democratic have exhibited, during the history, extreme attitudes of intolerance, that today, more than ever, it is a need of the concrete manifestation of the civil tolerance and of the religious one, in the way of rebuilding a peaceful climate between peoples and, as far as possible, of a reorganization of the social according to the communitarian principles of the Trinity, to the ecclesial ones. Our study desires to be a case study, from which we may extract, in a manner closed to the hermeneutics of Paul Ricoeur, the interference zone between the civil tolerance and the religious one. Paul Ricoeur said that the political relates itself firstly to economic, and only after that to ethical. Here we have an empirical criterion which introduces the notion of succession or of temporal-contractual pre-eminence. From this notion results the fact that the civil tolerance is a term through which an owner of a material civilization and protector of a spiritual civilization allows, facilitates to his fellow citizen conditions of existence similar to his owns. Within this aspect, there is no resort, in the language of the lighted absolutism, to the notion of nation, only to that of citizen, of co-existent, the coexistence being understood as living together. A distinct aspect of the civil toleration is considered to be the religious tolerance. Upon this we would like to stay a little longer, because we want to establish the exact relation between the two of them, because, from the religious point of view, their organic relation is this: The religious tolerance - a decisive factor of the civil tolerance. The refill
