Bishop Albert Bereczky (1893-1966) and the Revival Movement
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2021
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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.