Reformation and its effects over society and mentality among Hungarians

This book does not only deal with the history, but also with the effects of the Reformation over the mentality, education and scientifical research among Hungarians during the last five centuries. The spirit of the Reformation has not only been a church-forming factor, but also a force of nation-building and salvation. This volume includes 17 studies of Hungarian Reformed theologians presented at a conference in November 2016. The main goal was to give an overview of the most recent research results in history and theology regarding Reformation and its effects over society and mentality among Hungarians. The contributors come from various Hungarian theological universities from the Carpathian basin, thus the book is an overview of their research topics and results. The City Cluj-Napoca was, became and remained an important center of the Reformation, as significant events took place in its surroundings as well. The Faculty of Reformed Theology of the Babe-Bolyai University and the Protestant Theological Institute has always functioned in an environment, where the challenges of multi-confessionalism and multiethnicity are also present beside interdisciplinarity.

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Zsolt Cinke is a PhD student at the Reformed Theological Faculty of J. Selye University.Attila Lévai works as a dean of the Reformed Theological Faculty of J. Selye University in Komarno.Dr. Theol. József Pálfi is the rector of the Partium Christian University of Oradea (PKE).Alfréd Somogyi is the reformed priest of Apácaszakállas (Opatovský Sokolec), Dean of the Pozsonyi (Bratislava) Reformed Church District, Departement Head of Historical Studies of the Faculty of Theology at the Selye János University and serves as Vice Dean of the faculty.István Szabadi is a lecturer at the University of Debrecen.Sándor Béla Visky is associate professor for systematic theology at the Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj and at the Protestant Theological Institute of Kolozsvár.Judit Bognárné Kocsis is senior lecturer at the Institute of Education of the University of Pannonia, Veszprém.Gabriella Márta Gorbai is lecturer at the Faculty of Reformed Theology of the Babe-Bolyai University of Cluj.Olga Lukács, PhD is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Reformed Theology of the Babe-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca and is currently the Dean of the Faculty and a Reformed pastor.Alpár Csaba Nagy, PhD is Junior Lecturer at the Faculty of Reformed Theology, of the Babes-Bolyai University Cluj and a Reformed pastor.Károly Zsolt Nagy is a research associate at the Research Centre for the Humanities of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and an associate lecturer at the Reformed Theological Academy of Sárospatak.Sarolta Püsök is a lecturer at the Reformed Theological Faculty of the BabeBolyai University of Cluj-Napoca.Dr. Edit Somfalvi is assistant professor at the Department of Practical Theology at the Protestant Theological Institute of Cluj-Napoca.Olga Lukács, PhD is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Reformed Theology of the Babe-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca and is currently the Dean of the Faculty and a Reformed pastor.Alpár Csaba Nagy, PhD is Junior Lecturer at the Faculty of Reformed Theology, of the Babes-Bolyai University Cluj and a Reformed pastor.István Péter, PhD is Junior Lecturer at the Faculty of Reformed Theology, of the Babes-Bolyai University Cluj and a Reformed pastor and is currently Department Director.Herman J. Selderhuis ist Professor für Kirchengeschichte an der Theologischen Universität Apeldoorn, Direktor von Refo500, Wissenschaftlicher Kurator der Johannes a Lasco Bibliothek sowie Präsident des Internationalen Calvinkongresses.Dr. Christopher B. Brown is Associate Professor of Church History at Boston University.Dr. Günter Frank ist Direktor der Europäischen Melanchthon-Akademie Bretten und außerplanmäßiger Professor am Karlsruher Institut für Technologie.Dr. Bruce Gordon is Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Yale Divinity School.Barbara Mahlmann-Bauer ist Professorin em. für Neuere deutsche Literatur an der Universität Bern.Tarald Rasmussen ist Professor für Kirchengeschichte an der Universität Oslo.Dr. Violet Soen is Associate Professor for Early Modern History at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Leuven.Dr. Zsombor Tóth is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Literary Studies at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.Dr. Günther Wassilowsky ist Professor für Kirchengeschichte an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.Prof. Dr. Siegrid Westphal ist Inhaberin des Lehrstuhls für Geschichte der Frühen Neuzeit an der Universität Osnabrück sowie Direktorin des Forschungszentrums Institut für Kulturgeschichte der Frühen Neuzeit.