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This thesis presents the internal functioning, as well as the social and legal structures of the Reformed Church District of Transylvania in the 19th century, through an analysis of the minutes of the General Synod of 1830. The study focuses on the key and emphasized topics of the minutes: matrimonial jurisdiction, the living conditions of ministers and teachers, and church administration and decision-making processes. Special attention is given to the life, ministry, and theological orientation of Bishop János Bodola, as well as the significance of the Endemann case, which exemplifies the tensions between orthodoxy and enlightened Protestantism. The source-based approach of the thesis combines legal, theological, and social historical perspectives, uncovering the mechanisms that sustained the church’s renewal and community-shaping role even amidst the challenges of the era.

The aim of this thesis is the examination of how effective catechesis can be among 7–10-year-olds, with special regard to the involvement of the family and the method of cooperative learning. The thesis examines the foundations of Biblical and Practical Theology, the interconnections among catechetics, pedagogy and missiology, as well as the characteristics of the individual generations, especially the Alpha, as well as the Z, Y, and X generations, taking into account that today these generations form a family. Our thesis emphasizes that the primary scene of faith education is the family; therefore, the process of education will be effective if parents (and siblings) actively join in the catechesis. By them the tools of cooperative learning provide such a learning space where the child, with the presence and support of the family, can live in faith.