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ABSTRACTS was the site of the ecclesiastical visitations, the purpose of which was to find and destroy all forms of the ancient Andean polytheistic religion. The leaders of the visitations were among the monks of the Roman Catholic Church, and the notes they made form one of the bases of my research. The records reveal that the monks mostly searched for guacas, that is, Andean idols, mummies and representations of deities, which they tried to destroy. The guaca cult was the basis of the religion of the indigenous American community, many ceremonies and sacred celebrations belonging to the guacas were organized, and thus their destruction was a serious blow to the local pre-Columbian religion. KATA PETŐ-VERES Changes in baptism in the light of the responses to the 1968 liturgical survey of the Reformed Church in Hungary The movement for the renewal of the liturgy could not escape the attention of the Reformed Church in Hungary. The church leadership felt that the time had come for a new Liturgical Book to be drawn up and the current Ravasz Agenda to be replaced, one of the, perhaps zero, steps in this process being the national liturgical questionnaire sent out before Easter 1968. The questionnaire asked about the usability of the current so-called Ravasz— liturgy and gave the clergy the space to express their opinions and make their own suggestions. The topic of the questions included, among others, homily services, sacrament services, confirmation or funerals. In my study, I will look at the responses to baptism, which give an insight into the church life in the period of the socialist dictatorship, its views on worship and sacrament, and also serve as a comparison for today’s pastors, who may face different problems, but individualism and diversity are still a problem. ABEL VERES The hidden beauty. Karl Barth’s Theological Aesthetics in the Context of Martin Luther’s Heidelberg Disputation The aim of the research is to examine and present Karl Barth’s concept of beauty in the context of Martin Luther’s theology of the cross, and to present the criticisms that have been raised against Barth’s concept of beauty. Since the Reformation, the Protestant culture and aesthetics have played a marginal role in the shadow of the cross, so Karl Barth’s understanding of glory, which has given new impetus to theological aesthetics is therefore inescapable for the * 114 +
