Why Does the Agent Question Outlast the Agent Era?
The conference focuses not simply on the former era of state-security informants, but on a question that remains with us to this day: why has the agent question outlasted the agent era itself? How has the church dealt with this legacy over the past decades? How does it continue to shape our institutions, trust, and the way we speak about our own history?
Amid yet another episcopal election, it is worth asking the uncomfortable question: how truly Reformed is the hierarchical way of functioning in the Reformed Church in Hungary? How did such strong episcopal and deanly power emerge alongside the Reformed self-understanding, and what historical reflexes continue to sustain this system today?…
What happens when the election of a Reformed bishop turns into a campaign months before nominations, reducing the community to choosing from predetermined names? The Church’s task is broader:…
The study examines the theological interplay between trust and distrust in the context of the Church’s credibility crisis. The study proceeds from the premise that abuses of power in…
Throughout church history, moments of crisis repeatedly uncover deeper dimensions of Christianity that remain hidden in times of stability. This essay traces this pattern in the Hungarian Reformation and…
What does economic success have to do with what we consider honest, how we approach work, and how willing we are to stand up to those in power? More than 120 years after its publication, Max Weber’s work on the Protestant ethic still raises pressing questions for Hungary. Péter Ákos…
Is Christianity becoming fashionable? In recent years, we have witnessed a growing number of celebrities converting to Christianity or expressing an intense interest in it. The writer and activist…
We are naturally inclined to divide humanity into two categories: “us” and “them,” and “they”—the other group—are perceived as a threat to “us.” For this reason, people build not…
According to Max Weber’s famous thesis, Protestant ethics was one of the key driving forces behind the emergence of modern capitalism. Does this mean, however, that the capitalist economic…
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Tönkő-Lukács Levente
Kókai-Nagy Viktor
Zsengellér József
Darvas-Tanács Erik
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