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Az 1895 őszén felavatott kolozsvári új intézmény beindulását és a nagyenyedi Teológiai Akadémia végleges megszüntetését több mint két évtizedig tartó szenvedélyes vita előzte meg. Ennek végkifejlete a Szász Domokos püspök által képviselt kolozsvári, illetve Kovács Ödön teológiai professzor által irányított nagyenyedi fél között dőlt el.

Kelet-Európa egyházainak közelmúltját kutatva sokszor távolinak tűnő dolgokon keresztül ismerünk önmagunkra, míg közvetlen közelünk­ben inkább azt látjuk meg, ami megkülönböztet minket ezektől a dolgoktól. Néha titokzatos alakok bukkannak fel előttünk, máskor pedig ismert közsze­replők eddig ismeretlen vagy kevésbé ismert tetteiről hullik le a lepel, s mindez új megvilágításba helyezi a régi dolgokat. Mintha csak Leszek Kolakowski mondása igazolódna be, miszerint a történelem nem tanít sem viselkedni, sem sikeressé válni, viszont elmondja, kik is vagyunk valójában.

Short History of the Lutheran Church District in Transylvania.The Hungarian Lutheran church in Transylvania has a unique history. At the beginning of it existence in the 16 century the Hungarian Lutherans joined the German Lutheran Church and have organized themselves as a deanery. They kept this structural form up till the end of the 19th century when they decided to split and have started to set up their own independent church district. As a first step they have formed a separate deanery which incorporated several Hungarian Lutheran local churches around Brassó, then mainly after the 20-es of the 20th century, they have restructured the local churches in the South-Western part of Romania and this is how three more deaneries came into being. This was enough to begin thinking on how these all could come together as a basic structure of a church district, which can be further broaden by incorporating more and more reorganized deaneries. The foundation of the new church district finally was set in their general assembly held in 1920 in the city of Arad. They also put a name of the new church formation: The Lutheran Church District in Transylvania and Banat region set up on the Augustana Confession.

Evangelisation through reformed eyes. This study was presented at a small conference of reformed and catholic theologians. The presentation of evangelisation through a reformed prism is underlined by thoughts of great reformed predecessors. There are five points, all presenting a different aspect of this question. The first treats the fashion of evangelisation. Because of the fact that evangelisation, as a term is not firmly identified, using different slogans and dealing with evangelisation as a fashion could be dangerous. This is why a good definition with the approval of all Christian churches is needed. Another important thought of this first point is the fact, that evangelisation is not new, by no means a fashion, it is only the submission to an ancient, biblical command of the great mission. The second point presents the biblical roots of evangelisation through the New Testament, with the conclusion, that evangelisation has to be done within and outside the church, and that preaching itself is in fact evangelisation. The third point explains the slightly synonymous terms of evangelisation, mission and church building by using the works of Sándor Tavaszy, Sándor Makkai and Lajos Imre, with special attention to the differences concerning evangelisation being mission outside or within the church. The fourth point discusses evangelisation viewed as mission. In the first sub point evangelisation is viewed as inner-mission, without which a living congregation and blooming church-life is unthinkable. The second sub point presents evangelisation as outermission, underlining, that these two do not depend on each other, but have to be done together at the same time. The fifth and last point is on classic evangelisation. Here it is said, that the base and background of all evangelisation movements is and has to be the Holy Spirit. It is this point of the study that summarizes the basic and essential parts of the evangelising preaching. The study ends by the final conclusion, that evangelisation can only be done by the church.