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    STUDIA THEOLOGIA%20REFORMATA%20TRANSYLVANICA - Issue no. 1-2 / 2008  
         
  Article:   RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE UNIVERSITY AND THE REFORMED THEOLOGICAL FACULTY IN TRANSYLVANIA IN THE 17–19TH CENTURIES / AZ EGYETEM ÉS A REFORMÁTUS TEOLÓGIA KAPCSOLATA ERDÉLYBEN A 17–19. SZÁZADBAN.

Authors:  LUKÁCS OLGA.
 
       
         
  Abstract:  The introductory part of this paper shortly drafts the attempts since 1560 to found a university in Transylvania.
During the centuries there had been several attempts to ensure that the education in Transylvania rises up to European standards. Nonetheless, up to 1786 there had been university-education in this region, with longer or shorter periods of absence.
Modern Hungarian university-education was however organized in the two decade-period after the 1867 Austrian-Hungarian settlement. During the second ministry of Eötvös József, the country’s second university opened its gates in the 1872–1873 academic year.
It is known that during the reorganization of universities, Eötvös József wished to set up a protestant and an orthodox theological faculty next to the already existing catholic faculty at the university in Budapest. As this was impossible to achieve in Budapest, he thought of Kolozsvár.
After the settlement, the different churches have also realized the urgent matter of having theological education at academic level, the question of university-church-theology was quickly becoming the focus of public opinion. Specialists in church matters started speaking about methods of theological education, the rather because the minister-training in Enyed was facing more and more difficulties.
The paper gives a detailed presentation of the opinion-exchange in the media, from which it appears that some would have rather placed theological education to Kolozsvár, hoping for a connection with the University. Then again, there was another side, with the contrary opinion that theological education should remain in Enyed and didn’t agree with any ties to the University either.
After a long period of hardship, the Reformed Theological Faculty in Kolozsvár was finally established in 1895. Afterwards, the students of this faculty had the same rights as the students at the University. The final regulation procedure between the University and the Faculty was accepted at the general assembly of Transylvanian dioceses on the 6th of July 1896.
The connection with the University in Kolozsvár has given new impulse to theological education, as this way ministers received dual training: apart from their ministerial diplomas, they could also receive a teacher’s diploma. Through university-education ministers could acquire all that society expected from them. Nagyenyed could have never ensured that.
The consequences of the First World War have opened a new chapter in the life of both the Ferenc József University as well as the and Reformed Theological Faculty.


Keywords: Education in Transylvania, reorganization of universities, focus of public opinion, Ferenc József  University, Reformed Theological Faculty.

 
         
     
         
         
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