Károly Tóth

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Károly Tóth (1981)

Károly Tóth (born April 3, 1931 in Győrszemere near Győr ; † June 16, 2014 ) was a Hungarian Reformed Bishop , Vice-President of the Reformed World Federation (WARC) and President of the Christian Peace Conference (CFK).

Life

Tóth studied Protestant theology at the Reformed Theological Academy in Budapest and at the Calvinist Theological Faculty in Montpellier (France) and became pastor of the Reformed Church in Hungary in 1956 . At the end of the 1950s he joined the Christian Peace Conference, in which he first took part in 1959. At the 1st All-Christian Peace Assembly in Prague in 1961 , he represented the country's Protestantism as secretary of the World Council of Churches in Hungary. In 1966 he became doctor of theology and in 1978 Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) PhD . In 1971 he was elected General Secretary of the CFK at the IV. ACFV, an office that he held until 1978. Then he was elected President of CFK. From 1977 he was also the bishop of the Danube district of his church until he gave up his church office in 1991. Around the same time (1977–1988) he was Vice President of the World Reformed Federation (WARC). In the 1980s he was also a member of the central and executive committees of the World Council of Churches and the Commission of Churches on International Affairs (CCIA) in Geneva . As President of the International CFK and represented this organization until his resignation in 1990.

From 1991 to 1994 he held theological lectures in Princeton and Atlanta (USA) as a visiting professor. After the revolutions in 1989 , Károly Tóth had become a controversial person and was hostile to various quarters. With private and ecclesiastical funds from abroad, he set up the Ecumenical Study Center in Budapest, which he headed as President. The work of this center also led to a rehabilitation in Hungary. The Festschrift for the 75th birthday of Károly Tóth with 28 articles in five languages ​​(Hungarian, German, English, French, Russian) from different countries was published by the new leadership of the Hungarian Reformed Church with an introduction by the new church leadership.

After the political changes in Europe after 1990, the clergyman looked for new ways of working. He worked on the Protestant magazine Berliner Dialog , on whose scientific advisory board he was appointed. As a publicist, he reappeared more and more. The majority of his theological essays and writings are in Hungarian, especially in the three volumes: 1. Good News - Message of Peace (1981); 2. Roots and Perspective (1985); 3. In the past for the future (2001).

Publications

  • Equal before God. Essays on Anti-Racism. 1980
  • Living as a Christian in Today's World. 1981
  • TP emlékezete [The Legacy of TÖRÖK, Pál (Paul)], (in: Confessio VIII (1984, 1-38-46))
  • Christian Involvement in Promotion of Liberation, Peace and Justice. 1985
  • Asian Christian Peace Conference. 1986
  • A reorientation to peace. Selected Addresses and Writings . Delhi: Indian Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge (ISPCK) 1985

As editor

  • Seven Years of the Christian Peace Conference. Christian Peace Conference, Budapest 1979
  • Peace and justice. An ecumenical commandment for Christians and churches. CFK contribution to the Fifth General Assembly of the World Council of Churches in Nairobi 1975. Budapest undated , ISBN 963-7030-11-5

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Announcement of Bishop Károly Tóth's Passing. Obituary on reformatus.hu, June 19, 2014 (English). Retrieved July 14, 2015.
  2. ↑ http://www.religio.de/dialog/300/22_01.htm
personal data
SURNAME Tóth, Károly
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian Reformed Bishop
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Győrszemere , near Győör
DATE OF DEATH June 16, 2014