EARLIER PUBLICATIONS
The Quest for Meaning is the digital publication of a pioneering study of Svāmī Vivekānanda's spiritual journey, carefully looking at his evolution as a Brāhmo Samaji, a skeptic, a follower of Hindu gurus and teachers, and finally the hero of the World's Parliament of Religions in 1893. Modern scholarship on Svāmī Vivekānanda has used this 1974 study as a foundation to open new understanding about the Hindu Renaissance and its leading exponent.
Methodological Issues in Religious Studies is an academic study by three imminent scholars: Profs. Wilfred Cantwell Smith, Joseph Neusner, and Hans Penner. The study was edited by Prof. Robert D. Baird.
Transylvania is the cradle of Unitarianism, the most liberal faith of the Protestant Reformation. Unitarians were the first to proclaim and practice freedom of religion and tolerance in 16th century Europe.
Imre Gellerd’s A History of Transylvanian Unitarianism through Four Centuries of Sermons is the only comprehensive intellectual history of this movement – a work that brought about the author’s long political imprisonment in Communist Romania.
While church histories often deal with the institutional framework, Imre Gellerd focuses on the spiritual dimensions, the raison d’être of the church. He conceived of a new discipline within practical theology, that of the history of the literature of sermons.
The work presents the evolution of thoughts in the context of Europe’s dominant philosophical and religious currents of 16th through the 20th centuries. It also provides an effective means of understanding the heart of a culture.
This work was originally published both in Hungarian and English, and now as an E-book.
Imre Gellerd’s A History of Transylvanian Unitarianism through Four Centuries of Sermons is the only comprehensive intellectual history of this movement – a work that brought about the author’s long political imprisonment in Communist Romania.
While church histories often deal with the institutional framework, Imre Gellerd focuses on the spiritual dimensions, the raison d’être of the church. He conceived of a new discipline within practical theology, that of the history of the literature of sermons.
The work presents the evolution of thoughts in the context of Europe’s dominant philosophical and religious currents of 16th through the 20th centuries. It also provides an effective means of understanding the heart of a culture.
This work was originally published both in Hungarian and English, and now as an E-book.
John Erdö’s Chronological History and Theological Essays was the only Hungarian-language, Unitarian publication during the decades-long Romanian dictatorship. This chronological history conveniently provides a brief account of the most relevant events in the life of the Unitarian Church from its 16th century foundation through its 400th anniversary in 1972. Three additional essays elaborate early Unitarian history and its theological foundations.
Prisoner of Liberté is the true story of a Transylvanian minister-scholar, the Rev. Dr. Imre Gellérd. Symbolizing an entire era under totalitarianism, Rev. Gellérd’s life was shattered by the devices of a police state and the insidious ways it corrupted every aspect of society. He chose not to compromise his ideals, thus he inadvertently harmed his family and ruined his own academic career. His arrest by the secret police, the communist show-trial and years of imprisonment in Romania’s labor camps led to agonizing dilemmas and unconventional solutions to challenges of dehumanization, fear and inner exile.
This “literature of witness” attempts to chronicle one victim of state tyranny to call attention to the larger picture: if history’s lessons are forgotten, all the sacrifices of the past have been for naught.
This “literature of witness” attempts to chronicle one victim of state tyranny to call attention to the larger picture: if history’s lessons are forgotten, all the sacrifices of the past have been for naught.
Transylvania is the cradle of Unitarianism, the most liberal faith of the Protestant Reformation. Unitarians were the first to proclaim and practice freedom of religion and tolerance in 16th century Europe. While church histories often deal with the institutional framework, Imre Gellérd focuses on the spiritual dimensions, the raison d’être of the church. He conceived of a new discipline within practical theology, that of the history of the literature of sermons. This study is the condensed version of his comprehensive work, A History of Transylvanian Unitarianism through Four Centuries of Sermons, published both in English and Hungarian.
The present volume is an overview of the formative religious ideas and social actions of the Unitarian Church through four centuries of struggle to preserve its core values.
The present volume is an overview of the formative religious ideas and social actions of the Unitarian Church through four centuries of struggle to preserve its core values.
This “homespun” volume is a special collection of sermons that American Unitarian Universalist ministers, professors and lay members preached about Transylvanian Unitarianism and its 16th century Edict of religious freedom and tolerance. Today Transylvania has become the land of pilgrimage for Americans, and Unitarian pulpits their forum to encourage and support this ethnically and religiously persecuted minority. The 44 sermons testify about deep transformative experiences through pilgrimage and firm commitments to save the Transylvanian Unitarian heritage. The Partner Church Program that covenants 200 congregations on each continent has been “the largest and most heartening movement for American Unitarian Universalists.”
Egy erdélyi unitárius lelkész-tanár, Dr. Gellérd Imre életének igaz történetén keresztül az erdélyi magyarság félszázados történelmi múltja dereng fel, melynek kegyetlen, embertelen voltát sok ezer ártatlan ember élte át – vagy halt bele. Gellérd Imre túlélte a politikai börtönéveket, a Duna-deltai lágereket, hogy aztán belehaljon ál-szabadságába; a Securitate felesküdt elveszejtésére, egyháza pedig ebben együtmüködött. A rendkívüli tehetségü és nagytudasú teológus-író tragédiába fulladó élete mégis diadalmas. Mert mi a diadalmas élet, ha nem a térdrekényszerítés visszautasítása, a legszentebb értékekkel való meg nem alkuvás? A tortenelmi sulyu eletmu azonban csak halala utan negyedszazaddal nÉs nem diadal-e a történelmi súlyú életmü mely csak halála után nyert elismerést?
yerte el diadalat.
yerte el diadalat.