What does a religious community do when confronted by a political
regime determined to eliminate a religion? Under communism,
Hungary's persecuted Lutheran Church tried desperately to find a
strategy for survival while remaining faithful to its Christian
beliefs. Appealing to the Lutheran Confessions, many argued that
the church can do whatever is necessary to survive provided it does
not compromise on its essential ministry, while others appealing to
the witness of the confessor Bishop Lajos Ordass, argued that the
church must uncompromisingly witness to the truth even if that
means ecclesiological extinction. In The Struggle of Hungarian
Lutherans under Communism, H. David Baer draws upon the disciplines
of theology, history, ethics, and politics to provide a
comprehensive analysis of the different strategies developed by the
church to preserve its integrity. Relying on previously unnoted
archival documents and other primary sources, Baer has made a
substantial contribution to Eastern European studies. Vigorously
written, his telling of the history is also a sensitive and moving
account of courage and cowardice in the fact of religious
persecution. This book should be of interest not only to students
of religion in Eastern Europe but also to anyone concerned about
the problems that arise wherever there is religious persecution. H.
DAVID BAER, who holds a Ph.D. in theology from the University of
Notre Dame, is an assistant professor of theology and philosophy at
Texas Lutheran University. He lived in Hungary for four years.
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