Gudor, Kund Botond2026-01-142026-01-142026-01-07Acta Neerlandica, No. 21 (2024) , 131-1721587-8171https://hdl.handle.net/2437/402076Within his work on Protestant church history, Péter Bod’s translation of the galley slaves’ history was one of those 18th century Protestant historiographical approaches, which bound the image of the struggling Church to personal sacrifice for the true faith. In 1738, he translated Bálint Kocsi Csergő’s Narratio brevis, i.e. the history of the galley slaves’ suffering, into Hungarian, entitled Siege of a House Built on a Rock. Although it was a manuscript, it became a bestseller copied and read all over the Carpathian Basin. Later, the image of the Protestant martyr was identified with what he delineated in his works God’s heroic Holy Mother Church and St. Heortocrat, namely, a martyr is an individual who, in the midst of persecutions and fleeing, does not grow weary in being of use for the benefit of his nation, his Church, the common good. In his works on church history, many inventories of suffering from the 16th and 17th centuries demonstrate his utilitarian view of martyrdom. The secularized view of martyrdom identifies the notion of suffering for religion with the struggle that he himself fought against the Habsburg censorship. The 17th and18th century Protestant history of suffering turned into an intellectual commitment that is unfolding in the midst of difficulties and preserves our nationhood, and can be formed along the jus and bonum publicum (public good, and public law). Within his work on Protestant church history, Péter Bod’s translation of the galley slaves’ history was one of those 18th century Protestant historiographical approaches, which bound the image of the struggling Church to personal sacrifice for the true faith. In 1738, he translated Bálint Kocsi Csergő’s Narratio brevis, i.e. the history of the galley slaves’ suffering, into Hungarian, entitled Siege of a House Built on a Rock. Although it was a manuscript, it became a bestseller copied and read all over the Carpathian Basin. Later, the image of the Protestant martyr was identified with what he delineated in his works God’s heroic Holy Mother Church and St. Heortocrat, namely, a martyr is an individual who, in the midst of persecutions and fleeing, does not grow weary in being of use for the benefit of his nation, his Church, the common good. In his works on church history, many inventories of suffering from the 16th and 17th centuries demonstrate his utilitarian view of martyrdom. The secularized view of martyrdom identifies the notion of suffering for religion with the struggle that he himself fought against the Habsburg censorship. The 17th and18th century Protestant history of suffering turned into an intellectual commitment that is unfolding in the midst of difficulties and preserves our nationhood, and can be formed along the jus and bonum publicum (public good, and public law). Within his work on Protestant church history, Péter Bod’s translation of the galley slaves’ history was one of those 18th century Protestant historiographical approaches, which bound the image of the struggling Church to personal sacrifice for the true faith. In 1738, he translated Bálint Kocsi Csergő’s Narratio brevis, i.e. the history of the galley slaves’ suffering, into Hungarian, entitled Siege of a House Built on a Rock. Although it was a manuscript, it became a bestseller copied and read all over the Carpathian Basin. Later, the image of the Protestant martyr was identified with what he delineated in his works God’s heroic Holy Mother Church and St. Heortocrat, namely, a martyr is an individual who, in the midst of persecutions and fleeing, does not grow weary in being of use for the benefit of his nation, his Church, the common good. In his works on church history, many inventories of suffering from the 16th and 17th centuries demonstrate his utilitarian view of martyrdom. The secularized view of martyrdom identifies the notion of suffering for religion with the struggle that he himself fought against the Habsburg censorship. The 17th and18th century Protestant history of suffering turned into an intellectual commitment that is unfolding in the midst of difficulties and preserves our nationhood, and can be formed along the jus and bonum publicum (public good, and public law). Within his work on Protestant church history, Péter Bod’s translation of the galley slaves’ history was one of those 18th century Protestant historiographical approaches, which bound the image of the struggling Church to personal sacrifice for the true faith. In 1738, he translated Bálint Kocsi Csergő’s Narratio brevis, i.e. the history of the galley slaves’ suffering, into Hungarian, entitled Siege of a House Built on a Rock. Although it was a manuscript, it became a bestseller copied and read all over the Carpathian Basin. Later, the image of the Protestant martyr was identified with what he delineated in his works God’s heroic Holy Mother Church and St. Heortocrat, namely, a martyr is an individual who, in the midst of persecutions and fleeing, does not grow weary in being of use for the benefit of his nation, his Church, the common good. In his works on church history, many inventories of suffering from the 16th and 17th centuries demonstrate his utilitarian view of martyrdom. The secularized view of martyrdom identifies the notion of suffering for religion with the struggle that he himself fought against the Habsburg censorship. 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