Impactul primului război mondial în viața comunității creștine baptiste din România Mare
The Impact of the World War I in the Life of the Christian Baptist Community in Great Romania

Summary/Abstract: This study wants to highlight the impact that the World War I had in the life of Christian Baptist Community in Great Romania. The directions that we want to approach in this study targets the changes brought by the World War I in the life of Baptist communities that will form in the year 1919 the Union of Christian Baptist Communities in Romania. Subsequently, beginning with 1921, starts to function the The Baptist Theological Seminary, initially at Arad, and then in Bucharest. Education also won in the period we are going to analyze, its organization being influenced by the border and political changes after the World War I. The bringing together within the same borders of the Baptists in Transylvania with the ones in Muntenia, Moldova, Bukovina, a direct consequence of the World War I, influenced the way education was seen, but also the religious life as a whole, the community ethos. These aspects mentioned above marked the life of Baptist community in the inter-war period. In order to understand them, we will refer to the Baptist identity, the origins of Baptists in Romania and their institutional organization, but also to the role that the Baptist Theological Seminary had in the religious life of Baptist communities and in shaping a common identity.

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