Adalékok a 19. századi liberalizmus unitárius recepciójához. Simén Domokos és Kozma Ferencz vitája a vallás forrásáról
Regarding the Unitarian Reception of 19th Century Liberalism: The Debate between Domokos Simén and Ferencz Kozma about the Origins of Religion

Summary/Abstract: This paper presents the debate about the roots of religion between the theology professor Domokos Simén and the Székelykeresztúr high school teacher Ferenc Kozma in the year 1870. Their debate represents a particularly important stage in the development of 19th Century Hungarian modern, liberal Unitarianism. It records the tension between the Schleiermacherian and Hegelian concepts of theology present in the modernist liberal European tradition. Schleiermacher claims the origins of religion in the domain of feelings, stating that religion differs from metaphysics that wants to divide and classify the universe, and differs from morals too that wants to determine the universe by moral rules. Religion is an approach, a feeling. Hegel, on the other hand, states that mind and science have to be at the roots of religion too, otherwise a religion based solely on feelings leads to uncontrollable subjectivism. Simén seems to follow the footsteps of Hegel, while Kozma shares the views originating from Schleiermacher's theory.

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