Jan Chabada

Ján Chabada (born February 10, 1915 in Végles ( sl. Vígľaš ), Sohl County , Austria-Hungary ; † April 18, 1970 in Bratislava ) was a Slovak Evangelical Lutheran theologian and Bishop General of the Slovak Evangelical Church AB

Life

Chabada came from a Protestant family. After attending elementary school and obtaining his university entrance qualification , he studied Protestant theology at the theological faculty of the University of Bratislava from 1933 to 1937 . After graduating from college, he was ordained a pastor . From 1951 until his death in 1970 he was Bishop General of his church. Ján Michalko became his successor.

In his interpretation of the Gospel, Chabada emphasized the special duty of peacemaking according to the Sermon on the Mount. In 1958 he was one of the co-founders of the Christian Peace Conference (CFK), worked at all All-Christian Peace Assemblies until his death and was elected to their committee to continue the work. At the Third CFK in Prague in 1960, he referred to the New Testament parable of the Good Samaritan as a discussant and led a.o. a. out:

“ We should not wait until the murderers carry out their criminal work on our neighbors, but rather try to thwart their criminal work in any case. And such murderers also live in modern times, not only in the time when Jesus Christ told the parable, whether these murderers are demolished highwaymen who attack their neighbors out of hunger in order to maintain their own lives or elegant people in salons with soft club chairs and safes, or whether it is general uniforms who bend down over the button to trigger a terrible nuclear war or, unfortunately, even live among us in priestly robes. - Dear friends, I ask you whether it is not appropriate to include the well-known American Cardinal Spellman among those who live in priestly robes , who at the Eucharistic Congress in Munich totally changed the character and mission of this institution, when he appeared there as a propagandist for another world war and has become unfaithful to the mission that he has as a priest, which his priestly robe testifies to the outside world. "

After the dismissal of the “politically unreliable” Bishop General Vladimír Pavol Čobrda , which was forcibly ordered by communist politicians in the “people's democratic” Czechoslovakia, in 1951, Ján Chabada, who was ready to “collaborate” with the communist state, was appointed the new Bishop General. His work as Bishop General is viewed very critically by many theologians and historians today.

Honor

• He was awarded an honorary doctorate in theology.

Publications

• Luther Yearbook, Volume 36 , ed. from the Luther Society, Verlag Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1969

literature

• Heinrich Kuhn: Handbook of Czechoslovakia , publications (Collegium Carolinum, Munich, Germany) , Research Center for the Bohemian Countries, Robert Lerche Publishing House, 1966

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Only future. Documents of the Third Session of the Christian Peace Conference , Prague 1969, p. 120.
2. ↑ books.google.de Retrieved March 8, 2012.