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SYNOPSES, ZUSAMMENFASSUNGEN
was made in 1986 on the 400th anniversary of Trubar’s death and presents
Trubar’s portrait, his Reformation opus and his life in a formal surrealist style.
As is seen from an iconographic analysis of the painting, the artist followed
exactly standard knowledge about the Slovene Reformation as this took shape
in Slovene humanistic studies in the period from the end of the 19th century
and was deeply engraved in the Slovene historical or rather cultural memory.
As regards the historical context in which it was formed, and as regards its
emphases in content, this knowledge can be characterized as completely ro-
mantic. In Slovene humanistic studies and as seen particularly clearly in the
Slovene historical memory, Trubar and the Slovene Reformers have been given
the role of “national saints”, while a fundamental role is attributed to the
Slovene Reformation in shaping the Slovene national being, and even more so,
Slovene national ethics. In this process, the historical and religious framework
in which the Slovene Reformation took shape is almost entirely overlooked, as
is also the original Christian message, to which Trubar and the Slovene Re-
formers were exclusively bound. This article firstly undertakes an analysis of
the origin of the romantic view of the Slovene Reformation and its essential
emphasis. It then analyzes the fundamental theological premises held by Trubar
and the Slovene Reformation; these were the premises of Pauline Christianity,
as the author ascertains.
UDC 274(497.4 Prekmurje)”17"
Franc Kuzmič
Protestantism among Hungarian Slovenes from the beginnings
to the Patent of Toleration
The article provides a condensed description of the beginnings and devel-
opment of Protestantism and Protestant literature among Hungarian Slovenes,
i.e. among Slovenes in Prekmurje under Hungarian rule. The survey extends to
Joseph II’s Patent of Toleration (1781), which came into force in Prekmurje
only in 1783. The treatment of this topic is divided according to the three
territorial regions (Radgona and its surroundings; Lendava and its surround-
ings; upper Prekmurje or Goričko), since events differed according to impor-
tant particularities. The Protestant Counts of Banffi invited a printer to
Lendava, the first on the territory of Slovenia at that time. In Prekmurje, Cal-
vinism spread as well. During the period of the Counter-Reformation (from
1599), the astronomer Kepler was one of the refugees faithful to Protestantism
in Petanjci, on the estate of the nobleman Nadasdy. At the end of the 17th
century almost half the Hungarian Slovenes continued in the Protestant faith,
although they lacked priests and teachers. In 1732 the army captured the last
Protestant churches in Prekmurje. Some of the believers emigrated to Hun-
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was made in 1986 on the 400th anniversary of Trubar’s death and presents
Trubar’s portrait, his Reformation opus and his life in a formal surrealist style.
As is seen from an iconographic analysis of the painting, the artist followed
exactly standard knowledge about the Slovene Reformation as this took shape
in Slovene humanistic studies in the period from the end of the 19th century
and was deeply engraved in the Slovene historical or rather cultural memory.
As regards the historical context in which it was formed, and as regards its
emphases in content, this knowledge can be characterized as completely ro-
mantic. In Slovene humanistic studies and as seen particularly clearly in the
Slovene historical memory, Trubar and the Slovene Reformers have been given
the role of “national saints”, while a fundamental role is attributed to the
Slovene Reformation in shaping the Slovene national being, and even more so,
Slovene national ethics. In this process, the historical and religious framework
in which the Slovene Reformation took shape is almost entirely overlooked, as
is also the original Christian message, to which Trubar and the Slovene Re-
formers were exclusively bound. This article firstly undertakes an analysis of
the origin of the romantic view of the Slovene Reformation and its essential
emphasis. It then analyzes the fundamental theological premises held by Trubar
and the Slovene Reformation; these were the premises of Pauline Christianity,
as the author ascertains.
UDC 274(497.4 Prekmurje)”17"
Franc Kuzmič
Protestantism among Hungarian Slovenes from the beginnings
to the Patent of Toleration
The article provides a condensed description of the beginnings and devel-
opment of Protestantism and Protestant literature among Hungarian Slovenes,
i.e. among Slovenes in Prekmurje under Hungarian rule. The survey extends to
Joseph II’s Patent of Toleration (1781), which came into force in Prekmurje
only in 1783. The treatment of this topic is divided according to the three
territorial regions (Radgona and its surroundings; Lendava and its surround-
ings; upper Prekmurje or Goričko), since events differed according to impor-
tant particularities. The Protestant Counts of Banffi invited a printer to
Lendava, the first on the territory of Slovenia at that time. In Prekmurje, Cal-
vinism spread as well. During the period of the Counter-Reformation (from
1599), the astronomer Kepler was one of the refugees faithful to Protestantism
in Petanjci, on the estate of the nobleman Nadasdy. At the end of the 17th
century almost half the Hungarian Slovenes continued in the Protestant faith,
although they lacked priests and teachers. In 1732 the army captured the last
Protestant churches in Prekmurje. Some of the believers emigrated to Hun-
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