Kálvin és a káté
Calvin and the Catechism

Summary/Abstract: The Second Helvetic Confession was solemnly accepted by a Synod of Debrecen Hungary in 1567. Three years earlier Calvin’s Geneva catechism was as well accepted, and in the next year published in Hungarian. A few years earlier (in 1562) the confession of Theodore de Bèze became similarly accepted. For some unknown reason mostly the Heidelberg Catechism became used by custom up to the middle of the 20th century in religious education. The first Hungarian translation of it were published as early as 1577. Yet officially it was included in curriculum only as late as 1646 at the Szatmár (Satu Mare in Romania) Synod. Some data are mistakenly confused. So in modern studies frequently had claimed that the Heidelberg Cathechism was accepted also in 1567. That is untrue. Otherwise theological profound education and solid theological thinking needs even in our days the discipline of these symbols.

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