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    Bishop Albert Bereczky (1893-1966)
    (2019) Lányi Gábor János
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    Bishop Albert Bereczky (1893-1966) and the Revival Movement
    (2021) Lányi Gábor János
    This original research paper discusses Bishop Albert Bereczky’s (1893-1966) firstcontacts with revivalism, especially his spiritual conversion experience during his adolescentyears. Albert Bereczky, Bishop of the Danubian Church District from 1948 to 1958, was one ofthe most significant, and yet controversial persons of the Reformed Church in Hungary duringthe 20th Century. From a popular preacher of the Revival Movement of the 1920s, churchplanter of the 1930s, rescuer of Jews during the War, he became the tool of state interest of theCommunist regime in the 1950s. This paper sorts out the origins of his turn to the revival move-ment, like his troubled childhood, the emotional and financial insecurity of an illegitimate child,his troubled relationship with his biological father, the positive example of his stepfather, and hisdeviant adolescence behavior. By showing examples of his personal accounts the paper discusseswhether Bereczky went through a ‘sudden’ or a ‘gradual’ conversion experience.
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    Hungarians and Koreans in the „Religious Cold War”
    (2022) Lányi Gábor János
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    Méltatlanul
    (Károli Gáspár Református Egyetem Egyház és Társadalom Kutatóintézetének Reformáció Öröksége Műhelye, 2020) Lányi Gábor János
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    Zwinglian–Calvinist Debate on Church Discipline in the Pays de Vaud
    (2017) Lányi Gábor János
    The article discusses a theological debate on church discipline between Calvinist pastors living in the French speaking territory of Pays de Vaud and the Zwinglian City-state of Berne from the mid-1530s to 1560. From 1536 Pays de Vaud be-longed to the Bernese protestant administration but consisted primarily of French refugee pastors allegiant to Calvin and his ideas. They Calvinists of Pays de Vaud questioned the civil magistrate’s right to interfere into church affairs especially into the practice of church discipline, such as exclusion from the Lord’s Supper and excommunication from the congregation. According to the Zwinglian establishment of Berne the right for exclusion and excommunication belonged to the civil magistrates. In the Calvinists’ view the appropriate administrator of the exclusion and excommunication was the Genevian-type consistory, consisting of both clerical and civilian elected members.Noteworthy significance can be attributed to the events in the Pays de Vaud. On the one hand, banished from Bernese territory most of the Calvinist pastors of Vaud were sent to reinforce the French underground evangelical movement. The Calvinists’ failure in the Pays de Vaud turned Calvin’s attention to France by which the Calvinism became a world phenomenon. On the other hand, from this struggle emerged a theological justification for the state’s supremacy over church affairs, namely by Wolfgang Musculus’ De Magis-tratibus. Interestingly, this justification played a more important role in later times than in the actual controversy: Thomas Erastus, the builder of the territorial state–church of the Palatinate, John Withgift, the archbishop of Canterbury and the protector of Tudor-Absolutism against the Puritans, and the Dutch Remon-strants all were influenced by the teaching of Musculus. The goal of this paper is to present how the two controversial sides regulated its church affairs and, in addition, to show the highpoint of the debate between Calvin’s Vaudois adherers and the Bernese Magistrate for the government of the church, especially for the right of excommunication.