scholarly journals Bishop Albert Bereczky (1893-1966) and the Revival Movement: Albert Bereczky’s Conversion

Perichoresis ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-100
Author(s):  
Gábor J. Lányi
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Communist Regime ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Biological Father ◽  
Reformed Church ◽  
Illegitimate Child ◽  
Conversion Experience ◽  
Original Research Paper ◽  
Revival Movement ◽  
Personal Accounts

Abstract This original research paper discusses Bishop Albert Bereczky’s (1893-1966) first contacts with revivalism, especially his spiritual conversion experience during his adolescent years. Albert Bereczky, Bishop of the Danubian Church District from 1948 to 1958, was one of the most significant, and yet controversial persons of the Reformed Church in Hungary during the 20th Century. From a popular preacher of the Revival Movement of the 1920s, church planter of the 1930s, rescuer of Jews during the War, he became the tool of state interest of the Communist regime in the 1950s. This paper sorts out the origins of his turn to the revival movement, like his troubled childhood, the emotional and financial insecurity of an illegitimate child, his troubled relationship with his biological father, the positive example of his stepfather, and his deviant adolescence behavior. By showing examples of his personal accounts the paper discusses whether Bereczky went through a ‘sudden’ or a ‘gradual’ conversion experience.

scholarly journals Traversing a Tightrope between Ecumenism and Exclusivism: The Intertwined History of South Africa’s Dutch Reformed Church and the Church of Central Africa Presbyterian in Nyasaland (Malawi)

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 176
Author(s):  
Retief Müller
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Central Africa ◽  
Church History ◽  
Dutch Reformed ◽  
Reformed Church ◽  
Christian Nationalism ◽  
The Church ◽  
Dutch Reformed Church

During the first few decades of the 20th century, the Nkhoma mission of the Dutch Reformed Church of South Africa became involved in an ecumenical venture that was initiated by the Church of Scotland’s Blantyre mission, and the Free Church of Scotland’s Livingstonia mission in central Africa. Geographically sandwiched between these two Scots missions in Nyasaland (presently Malawi) was Nkhoma in the central region of the country. During a period of history when the DRC in South Africa had begun to regressively disengage from ecumenical entanglements in order to focus on its developing discourse of Afrikaner Christian nationalism, this venture in ecumenism by one of its foreign missions was a remarkable anomaly. Yet, as this article illustrates, the ecumenical project as finalized at a conference in 1924 was characterized by controversy and nearly became derailed as a result of the intransigence of white DRC missionaries on the subject of eating together with black colleagues at a communal table. Negotiations proceeded and somehow ended in church unity despite the DRC’s missionaries’ objection to communal eating. After the merger of the synods of Blantyre, Nkhoma and Livingstonia into the unified CCAP, distinct regional differences remained, long after the colonial missionaries departed. In terms of its theological predisposition, especially on the hierarchy of social relations, the Nkhoma synod remains much more conservative than both of its neighboring synods in the CCAP to the south and north. Race is no longer a matter of division. More recently, it has been gender, and especially the issue of women’s ordination to ministry, which has been affirmed by both Blantyre and Livingstonia, but resisted by the Nkhoma synod. Back in South Africa, these events similarly had an impact on church history and theological debate, but in a completely different direction. As the theology of Afrikaner Christian nationalism and eventually apartheid came into positions of power in the 1940s, the DRC’s Nkhoma mission in Malawi found itself in a position of vulnerability and suspicion. The very fact of its participation in an ecumenical project involving ‘liberal’ Scots in the formation of an indigenous black church was an intolerable digression from the normative separatism that was the hallmark of the DRC under apartheid. Hence, this article focuses on the variegated entanglements of Reformed Church history, mission history, theology and politics in two different 20th-century African contexts, Malawi and South Africa.

scholarly journals KONSEKUENSI MARRIED BY ACCIDENT DALAM PERSPEKTIF HUKUM POSITIF DAN HUKUM ISLAM

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 133
Author(s):  
Imawanto Imawanto ◽  
Edi Yanto ◽  
Mappanyompa Mappanyompa
Keyword(s):  
Research Methods ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Biological Father ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Positive Law ◽  
Legal Guardianship ◽  
Illegitimate Child ◽  
Legal Perspective ◽  
The Guardian ◽  
Cover Up

This article discusses married by accident, which is a marriage that is forced to be carried out between a pair of men and women because the woman is already pregnant, their parents must marry her, in order to cover up their disgrace in the community. Using juridical-normative research methods. The results of the study are, first, the law of being married by accident is permitted both by positive law and Islamic law, secondly, the position of a married by accident child becomes a legitimate child in the perspective of positive law, and an illegitimate child in the perspective of Islamic law. Third, in a positive legal perspective, the legal guardianship and inheritance rights of a daughter from married by accident are her biological father and inheritance rights from her parents, whereas in Islamic legal perspective the child resulting from married by accident biological father has no right to give heirs and is not entitled also be the guardian of the child.keywords: Islamic law; married by accident; positive law. AbstrakArtikel ini membahas tentang married by accident, yaitu pernikahan yang terpaksa dilakukan antara sepasang laki-laki dan perempuan karena perempuannya sudah hamil terlebih dahulu, orang tua mereka harus menikahkannya, dalam rangka menutupi aib mereka di masyarakat. Menggunakan metode penelitian yuridis-normatif. Hasil penelitian, pertama, hukumnya married by accident di bolehkan baik oleh hukum positif dan hukum Islam, kedua, kedudukan anak married by accident menjadi anak sah dalam perspektrif hukum positif, dan anak tidak sah dalam  perspektif hukum Islam. Ketiga, dalam perspektif hukum positif, hak wali dan hak waris anak perempuan dari married by accident adalah ayah biologisnya dan memperoleh hak waris dari kedua orang tuanya, sedangkan dalam perspektif hukum Islam anak hasil dari married by accident ayah biologis tidak berhak memberikan waris dan tidak berhak pula menjadi wali anak tersebut ketika menikah.kata kunci: hukum Islam; hukum positif; married by accident.

scholarly journals Status dan Hak Anak Tak Sah Islam dalam Undang-Undang di Malaysia

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (3-4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zanariah Noor
Keyword(s):  
Islamic Law ◽  
Family Law ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
Birth Certificate ◽  
Biological Father ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Illegitimate Child ◽  
Content Analysis Method ◽  
The Status ◽  
Islamic Family Law

Illegitimate child refers to a child conceived during sexual intercourse outside of wedlock. The jurists have different views regarding the gestation period of pregnancy that affects the legitimacy status of the child. The objective of this article is to analyze the different views of the jurists regarding the status as well as rights of the illegitimate child in Islam and current religious ruling implemented in Malaysia. This article also analyzes the rights of the illegitimate child towards a personal identity that involved lineage that effects on how his/her name and surname will be stated on birth certificate according to the Islamic and civil law in Malaysia. Issues on custody, maintenance, marriage guardianship of the illegitimate child and his/her relation with biological father that married to his / her mother will also be discussed according to the opinions of the jurists as well as Islamic family law in Malaysia. This study utilized content analysis method on discussions put forward by the jurists in authoritative jurisprudence books as well as contemporary jurisprudence books and law provisions that are provided in Islamic and civil law implemented in Malaysia to date. The findings show that Islamic family law protects rights of the illegitimate child in terms of self-identity (lineage), custody, maintenance and marriage guardianship. However, the issue regarding the surname of the illegitimate child was raised in Civil Court, arguing that he/she should be allowed to be named to his/her biological father who had married the mother. This issue needs to be scrutinized. The amendment should be carried out so that matters related to the Muslims' personal laws are implemented according to the Islamic law.

Dynamics of Cultural and Educational Processes of National Minorities of Transcarpathia of the Second Half of the 20th Century

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 232-253
Author(s):  
Natalija Malets ◽  
Oleksandr Malets
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
National Culture ◽  
Ethnic Composition ◽  
Communist Regime ◽  
National Minority ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
The People ◽  
Cultural Processes ◽  
Socialist Economic

The article analyses the dynamics of ethnic composition and ethnic processes in Transcarpathia in the second half of the 20th century, as well as ethno-cultural processes of national consolidation of Ukrainians of the region as part of the Ukrainian nation. The paper evaluates the practice of the Soviet state and the ideology of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) to determine the nature, content and directions of all ethno-national and ethno-cultural policies in Transcarpathia. While researching the consolidation processes of Transcarpathian Ukrainians as part of the Ukrainian nation, the authors showed that the development of the traditions of Ukrainian national culture was seen in the environment of the creative intelligentsia and the majority of the people as an alternative to ideological communication. It is justified that the main goal of the communist authorities in Transcarpathia in 1945-1991 was to establish socialist, economic, political and ideological regime in the region. In order to accelerate this process, a Russian (Russian-speaking) national minority was hastily created in the region by the state authorities, which, having occupied leading political, ideological and economic positions, became a reliable support for the new communist regime. The article analyses the dynamics of ethnic composition and ethnic processes in Transcarpathia in the second half of the 20th century, as well as ethno-cultural processes of national consolidation of Ukrainians of the region as part of the Ukrainian nation. The paper evaluates the practice of the Soviet state and the ideology of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) to determine the nature, content and directions of all ethno-national and ethno-cultural policies in Transcarpathia. While researching the consolidation processes of Transcarpathian Ukrainians as part of the Ukrainian nation, the authors showed that the development of the traditions of Ukrainian national culture was seen in the environment of the creative intelligentsia and the majority of the people as an alternative to ideological communication. It is justified that the main goal of the communist authorities in Transcarpathia in 1945-1991 was to establish socialist, economic, political and ideological regime in the region. In order to accelerate this process, a Russian (Russian-speaking) national minority was hastily created in the region by the state authorities, which, having occupied leading political, ideological and economic positions, became a reliable support for the new communist regime.

scholarly journals Implications of BREEAM Sustainability Assessment on the Design of Hotels

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (16) ◽  
pp. 6550 ◽  
Author(s):  
María M. Serrano-Baena ◽  
Paula Triviño-Tarradas ◽  
Carlos Ruiz-Díaz ◽  
Rafael E. Hidalgo Fernández
Keyword(s):  
Sustainability Assessment ◽  
Assessment Method ◽  
Design Stage ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Early Design Stage ◽  
Agenda 2030 ◽  
Original Research Paper ◽  
Tourism And Hospitality Industry ◽  
Tourism And Hospitality ◽  
The Right

This original research paper analyses the actual and important topic of the implications of BREEAM sustainability assessment on the design of hotels and it is a personal response to “The Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development” and its influence on the Tourism and Hospitality Industry. The paper aims to examine the influence of the sustainable assessment method BREEAM on the design of hotels by using seven case studies and studying the changes that were implemented in order to achieve their targets. Qualitative data were obtained by conducting in-depth interviews and analyzing the supplied documentation. The authors notice that the results revealed that a BREEAM approach might limit the design of the hotels but, including the right measures at the early design stage of the project, the target can be easily achieved.

scholarly journals Advancing research

eLife ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Patterson ◽  
Randy Schekman ◽  
Fiona M Watt ◽  
Detlef Weigel
Keyword(s):  
Research Paper ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Original Research Paper ◽  
New Type ◽  
Research Advance

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