Abstract
Church tradition and culture as contributory factors in service to the Kingdom. This study describes how reverend Kálmán Papp (1924– ) was able to leave his land of origin behind under difficult, unasked-for and compelling circumstances and embrace a new future in a far-off and unknown country. This follows from his spontaneous responding and acting positively to the effects of cultural interaction and the common denominational factor of the Reformed Church ever present. The study argues in its methodology that it is an oversimplification and a mistake to seek truth by avoiding, underestimating or eliminating the necessary outcome of cultural interaction and church tradition in the choices we make (even theologically) and experiences we have of life. This is the true life story of a church minister who finds his destiny and becomes himself a minister in the service of God’s Kingdom, through faith’s challenges and encounters with the theologies and cultures of his embracing worlds.
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This study describes how reverend Kálmán Papp (1924– ) was able to leave his land of origin behind under difficult, unasked-for and compelling circumstances and embrace a new future in a far-off and unknown country
This follows from his spontaneous responding and acting positively to the effects of cultural interaction and the common denominational factor of the Reformed Church ever present
Summary
Kerklike tradisie en kultuur as bydraende faktore in die diens aan die Koninkryk – die lewe en werk van dominee Kálmán Papp II (geb. 1924). Die antwoorde op hierdie genoemde vrae sal ons in hierdie studie vind, sekerlik en veral, daarin dat Kálmán II regdeur sy lewe begelei word deur die gemeenskaplike van die een denominasie van die Hervormde Kerk (in Hongarye, in Nederland, in Suid-Afrika), maar daar is ook meer te vinde in die vorming van die breër kulturele interaksie waarin hy betrokke geraak het. Aangesien Kálmán II eerder ’n akademiese loopbaan wou volg as om gemeentepredikant te word en omdat daar nie ’n gemeente was wat op hom gewag het nie, het hy besluit om ’n aanbod van ’n nagraadse beurs van die Rijksuniversiteit van Utrecht, die Stipendium Bernardinum, met dankbaarheid te aanvaar. Verder word daar ook vermoed dat Gyula se vader dit, waarskynlik om te kompenseer vir die feit dat sy seun deur die Kommuniste opgehang is, met ’n redelike mate van trots oorvertel het. Zoltán was vyf maande in die tronk en dit het hom amper sy lewe gekos, aangesien hy daar onder andere met tuberkulose besmet geraak het (vgl. klankbandopnames van Kálmán II in NHK Argiefbewaarplek K2 5/4 Deel 3)
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