Az alkalmazás dilemmái. A német konfesszionalizációs modell és az erdélyi reformáció

The first part of the paper builds extensively on recent historiographical treatments of the question. It begins with reviewing the emergence of the terms “Konfessionalisierung” and “Konfessionsbildung” in German scholarship, which is followed by an overview of the most important debates and opinions. More details are offered about the research on the attempts at renewal and internal opposition within specific confessions. The second part of the paper recalls reflections from the recent decades on the challenges of applying these terms on the Hungarian and Transylvanian setting. The paper follows up and extends these results, and emphasises that linguistic borders in multi-national Transylvania failed to mirror confessional borders. The concluding part demonstrates that more recent research results, which put more emphasis on the differences between different confessional cultures, could be used in the development of the framework for the new synthesis of Hungarian literary history.