The History of the Free Church of Scotland's Mission to the Jews in Budapest and its Impact on the Reformed Church of Hungary: 1841-1914

by Ábrahám Kovács, Jan A.B. Jongeneel (Editor)

Overview

The Budapest Scottish Mission with its twofold aim, mission to the Jews and initiating an Evangelical revival in the largest Protestant body had played a remarkable, decisive and unique role in the «long 19^th century» of the Hungarian Kingdom. This study focuses on how the Scottish Mission implanted British Evangelicalism, German Pietism, voluntary organisations such as YMCA, IFES, WSCF, Sunday School, Women’s Guild, social outreach, medical missions, home mission, personal piety, concepts of mission and evangelisation through their Scottish Presbyterianism into Hungary. The study presents the interaction of Scottish Presbyterians, Orthodox, Neolog (Reform and Conservative) and Status Quo Ante Jews of Hungary, and the Hungarian Reformed Protestants. It also discusses their attitudes to conversion, mission, proselytising, education, assimilation, and nationalism. While discussing the Mission’s aims, the book pays careful attention to church, institutional, and religious histories. In addition to these, local theologies, ideologies and worldviews of the people are scrutinized. Through these issues this study introduces the reader to the daily life of a multicultural community gathered around the Scottish community.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783631553671
Publisher:	Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date:	07/05/2006
Pages:	442
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

The Author: Ábrahám Kovács read his Ph.D. at Edinburgh University in 2003. He also holds degrees in History from Lajos Kossuth University in Debrecen, in Theology from Debrecen Reformed University and in Religious Studies from Princeton Theological Seminary. He studied also at Princeton University, and at the University of Tübingen. Most recently he was awarded of the Andrew W. Mellon Research Fellowship by the University of Edinburgh and the Eötvös Scholarship of the Hungarian Academy of Science. The author is now a Senior Lecturer at Debrecen Reformed University, a Research Fellow of the Institute of Habsburg History (Budapest), and a Research Fellow at the Protestant Institute for Mission Studies in Budapest. He is currently the secretary of the Hungarian Association for the Science of Religion and acting secretary of the CEEAMS.

Table of Contents

Contents: Hungarian Protestantism, Hungarian Jews and the Scottish Mission to the Jews – The Prelude, Settlement and Early Achievements of the Scottish Mission (1839-1857) – The Resettlement and Development of the Mission during the Neo-absolutist Era and the First Years of Dualism (1858-1870) – The Development of the Scottish Mission (1871-1881) – The Role of the Scottish Mission in the Emergence of Hungarian Reformed Home Mission (1882-1902) – The Development of the Home Mission and the Revival of the Reformed Church of Hungary (1903-1914).