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    STUDIA THEOLOGIA%20REFORMATA%20TRANSYLVANICA - Issue no. 2 / 2011  
         
  Article:   THE VICISSITUDES OF BOD PÉTER’S CHURCH HISTORY MANUSCRIPT / BOD PÉTER EGYHÁZTÖRTÉNETI KÉZIRATÁNAK VISZONTAGSÁGAI.

Authors:  BUZOGÁNY DEZSŐ. 		 
       
         
  Abstract:   The Vicissitudes of Bod Péter’s Church History Manuscript. The study is a short presentation about the creation and further fate of a manuscript of the famous Hungarian church historian, Péter Bod. The spiritual background of this work is the 18th century with its aggressive recatholization by the Hapsburg Empire, which led to an introspective attitude among the leaders of the Transylvanian Reformed Church. The goal of the author although was not only to write the history of the Hungarian Reformed Church, but to create a comprehensive Transylvanian history (along with the Unitarian Church, the Szekler and Romanian community etc.). The manuscript was sent during the life of Péter Bod to be published in Holland, but the project remained unfinished. 100 years later a Hungarien student in Leiden discovered the manuscript and pursued a well known Dutch editor to publish it. The originally Latin work was translated later into Hungarian, and its critical edition is due within a project initiated by the Pokoly József Church History Society in Kolozsvár.

Keywords: Péter Bod, church history, manuscript, 18th century, L. E. Rauwenhoff.
 
         
     
         
         
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