Bulányi György alternatív egyháztörténete. A bázisközösségek és a magyar katolikus hierarchia viszonya az 1945 utáni évtizedekben
György Bulányi’s Alternative Church History: The Relationship Between the Basis Communities and the Hungarian Catholic Hierarchy in the Decades After 1945

Summary/Abstract: After the Second Vatican Council, the community church model began to find followers even in Hungary at the underground level. These developments mainly took the form of the Regnum Marianum and the Bokor base community, founded by the Piarist monk György Bulányi in the late 1960s. A new way of experiencing belonging to the Church was closely aligned with the synod’s vision of the Catholic Church, but this was precisely why the communist state considered it very dangerous, as it represented an autonomous organization and opposition to the official Church. The rhetorical structure of the alternative church history elaborated by Bulányi made it clear that the Bokor movement was intended to represent the common memory not only of the Piarist monk but also of the community as a whole. Our paper aims to present the cornerstones of this narrative, which defines the most important arguments for the identity and self-understanding of a religious community marginalised from the Church in the 1980s.

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