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    STUDIA THEOLOGIA%20REFORMATA%20TRANSYLVANICA - Issue no. 2 / 2015  
         
  Article:   UNIFYING ATTEMPTS WITHIN THE HUNGARIAN LUTHERAN AND CALVINIST CHURCHES AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 19TH CENTURY / EGYSÉGTÖREKVÉSEK A MAGYAR LUTHERÁNUS ÉS KÁLVINISTA EGYHÁZBAN A 19. SZÁZAD ELSŐ FELÉBEN .

Authors:  LUKÁCS OLGA. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:  In the years of the Enlightenment Habsburg politics of religions brought the afore-mentioned Hungarian Protestant churches closer to each other. Just before the 1848 revolution, the Hungarian Reformed and Lutheran churches were moving towards a union with great enthusiasm. Starting with the beginning of the 18th century it was customary that after joint discussions on several issues the lay representatives of the two churches handled unanimously in the best interest of the church. During the Synods of Buda and Pest in 1791 attempts have been made to establish structural links between the two churches. Starting with the 1840’s years the two churches were nearing each other in the field of schools and education. The Lutheran Church Superintendent Count Károly Zay proposed the idea of unifying the two churches in the “ Társalkodó” journal in 1841. The concept was welcomed enthusiastically mainly by the Lutheran church leaders. All the more so because through this union they were hoping to counterbalance the Pan-Slavic spirited, Slovak nationality current that was increasingly strengthening within their own church since 1820.

Keywords: Unifying Attempts, Hungarian Protestant church union, Károly Zay, András Fáy, autonomy of the Reformed Church 		 
         
     
         
         
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