RT Article
T1 Revivalism, Bible Societies, and Tract Societies in the Kingdom of Hungary: A Multi-Ethnic, Multi-Cultural, and Multi-Denominational Work for Spreading the Good News of Jesus Christ
JF Perichoresis
VO 19
IS 1
SP 17
OP 37
A1 Kovács, Abrahám
LA English
PB Sciendo, De Gruyter
YR 2021
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1757112782
AB The current research paper seeks to investigate how Evangelicals and Pietist, the most fervent of Protestants sought to "educate" the masses outside the educational framework of ecclesiastical and state structures within the Hungarian Kingdom. More specifically the study intends to offer a concise overview of the history of Protestants who spread the gospel through the distribution of affordable Bibles, New Testaments and Christian tracts. It shows how various denominations worked together as well as directs attention to their theological outlook which transcended ethnic boundaries. It is a well-known fact in mission and church history that such undertakings were carried out to stir revivalism. The study also throws light on how influential role the Scottish Mission as well as Archduchess Maria Dorothea played in stirring revivalism through the aforementioned means. The history of these kinds of endeavours, especially that of the most significant ones like the work of the British and Foreign Bible Society and Religious Tract Society has not been treated adequately by historians of religion and education, intellectual historians and social historians. This research output is a contribution to give an account of the multi-ethnic and transdenominational work of Hungarians, Jews, Germans, Slovaks and Romanians working for a common goal.
K1 Revival
K1 Tract and Bible Societies
K1 Evangelicalism
K1 mission to the Jews, Pietists
K1 Liberal Theology
DO 10.2478/perc-2021-0002