Church Without Walls: Post-Soviet Baptists after the Ukrainian Revolution, 2013-14, Joshua T. Searle, 2016

The Whitley Lecture 2016 Church Without Walls oo Post-Soviet Baptists after the Ukrainian Revolution, 2013-14 Joshua T. Searle Whitley Publications Regent’s Park College, Oxford Centre for Baptist History and Heritage Studies Occasional Papers Volume 12 and Whitley Publications The Whitley Lecture 2016 Church Without Walls Post-Soviet Baptists After the Ukrainian Revolution, 2013-14 Joshua T. Searle Foreword by Sally Nelson Whitley Publications Regent’s Park College, Oxford Regent’s Park College is a Permanent Private Hall of the University of Oxford Copyright © Joshua T. Searle 2016 First published 2016 Whitley Publications c/o Regent’s Park College, Oxford Ox! 2LB Centre for Baptist History and Heritage, Regent’s Park College, Pusey Street, Oxford. OX1 2LB (Regent’s Park College is a Permanent Private Hall of the University of Oxford.) www.rpc.ox.ac.uk The right of Joshua T. Searle to be identified as the Author of this Work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher or a license permitting restricted copying. In the UK such licenses are issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London WIP 9HE. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 978-0-9565006-5-6 Front cover illustration: Photo of Christians from various Ukrainian churches (Baptist, Catholic and Orthodox) standing alongside one another as a witness for peace on Kyiv's central square during the Revolution of Dignity in 2014. Photograph taken by Yevgeny Shatalov. Typeset by Larry J. Kreitzer Printed and bound in Great Britain by AlphaGraphics, Nottingham www.alphagraphics.co.uk The Whitley Lectures Nigel G. Wright, Power and Discipleship: Towards a Baptist Theology of the State (1996-97) Ruth M.B. Gouldbourne, Reinventing the Wheel: Women and Ministry in English Baptist Life (1997-98) Keith G. Jones, A Shared Meal and a Common Table: Some Reflections on the Lord’s Supper and Baptists (1999) Anne Dunkley, Seen and Heard: Reflections on Children and Baptist Tradition (1999-2000) Stephen Finamore, Violence, the Bible and the End of the World (2001) Nicholas J. Wood, Confessing Christ in a Plural World (2002) Stephen R. Holmes, Tradition and Renewal in Baptist Life (2003) Andrew Rollinson, Liberating Ecclesiology: Setting the Church Free to Live Out its Missionary Nature (2004) Kate Coleman, Being Human: A Black British Christian Woman’s Perspective (2006) Sean Winter, More Light and Truth?: Biblical Interpretation in Covenantal Perspective (2007) Craig Gardiner,