The “new directions” in church history writing in the 1930s

Authors

  • Tamás Csíki University of Miskolc image/svg+xml Author https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4978-7778
    • Writing – Original Draft Preparation
    Competing Interests

    The author declare no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54231/ETSZEMLE.2022.3.1

Keywords:

church history, historiography, 1930s

Abstract

The study examines church history writing in the 1930s. It presents the debates between theologians and “lay” historians, focusing on the state of the discipline, which also reflected the problematic relationship between theological and historical knowledge, between religious faith and scientific understanding. It alludes to the use and meaning of the permanent adjectives prevalent in the discipline (“Catholic” and “Protestant”), and then, via studies written by the young scholars of the journal Regnum, published by the Panel of Hungarian Catholic Historians, it illustrates the thematic and methodological opportunities that intellectual history, ethnographic history and social historiography offered to innovatory church history writing.

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Author Biography

  • Tamás Csíki, University of Miskolc

    Habilitated associate professor, University of Miskolc, Faculty of Arts

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Published

2022-09-16

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Studies

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How to Cite

Csíki, Tamás. 2022. “The ‘new directions’ in Church History Writing in the 1930s”. Church History Review 23 (3): 5-19. https://doi.org/10.54231/ETSZEMLE.2022.3.1.

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