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- Title
Dogma and Creed: ecclesia semper reformari or transformari debet? A Response from the New Orthodoxy of Debrecen to Hungarian Liberal Theology.
- Authors
Kovacs, Abraham
- Abstract
The aim of this paper is to scrutinise the two aspects of the debate which took place between Hungarian liberal theology and neo-orthodoxy from 1860s onwards. First, it discusses the liberal concept of what the essence of Christian religion was and its orthodox critique which led to the Declaration of Faith in Debrecen (1875). Secondly, it investigates the arguments on what basis liberal theologians rejected confessions. The paper argues that both trends interpreted very differently the Reformed principle 'ecclesia semper reformari debet with ecclesia semper transformari debet' and throws light on how it is best to understand their way of thinking.
- Subjects
LIBERALISM (Religion); ORTHODOX Judaism; THEOLOGIANS; ECCLESIA (Christian art); CHRISTIAN art &; symbolism
- Publication
Journal for the History of Modern Theology / Zeitschrift für Neuere Theologiegeschichte, 2019, Vol 26, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0943-7592
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/znth-2019-0001