BAPTIȘTII DIN ROMÂNIA DUPĂ MAREA UNIRE DE LA 1918, ÎNTRE ENTUZIASMUL REALIZĂRII IDEALULUI NAȚIONAL ȘI TRAGEDIILE PERSECUȚIEI RELIGIOASE
BAPTISTS IN ROMANIA AFTER THE GREAT UNION OF 1918, BETWEEN THE ENTHUSIASM OF ACHIEVING THE NATIONAL IDEAL AND THE TRAGEDIES OF RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION

Author(s): Teodor Ioan Colda
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, History, History of Church(es), Recent History (1900 till today), Theology and Religion, History of Communism, Other Christian Denominations
Published by: Editura Cetatea de Scaun
Keywords: Baptists; Romania; religious persecutions; Orthodoxy; religion; freedom;
Summary/Abstract: This paper briefly explores the conditions of Romanian Baptist believers after the Great Unification of 1918. The main focus is on the persecution suffered by the Baptist community due to the actions undertaken by the State in Collaboration with the Orthodox Church in the ‘20s. After a short discussion regarding the ideological reasons of the religious persecution directed to different Christian denominations labeled as ‘sects’, the paper brings into attention different aspects of the opression endured by Baptist believers, but also aspects regarding their resistance, especially to the so called “missionary work” of the Orthodox clergy. In the end, the author emphasizes that one of the fundamental values of Baptist believers is religious freedom, which the State should grant to all its citizens.

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