Soviet Evangelicals Since World War II, Walter Sawatsky, 1981

OSES gS aie 8 ee sins = Soviet Evangelicals Since World War II Walter Sawatsky Foreword by Gerhard Claas HERALD PRESS Kitchener, Ontario Scottdale, Pennsylvania 1981 ee an Cc taloguing in Publication Data awatsky, Walter, 1945- Soviet evangelicals since World War II Bibliography: p. Includes index. ISBN 0-8361-1238-5 (bound). - ISBN 0-8361-1289-3 (pbk.) 1, Evangelicalism - Russia - History - 20th century. 2. Russia - Church history - 1917- 8. Church and state - Russia - 1917- I. Title. BR1642.R87S28 269’.2'0947 C81-094121-X Scripture quotations are from the Good News Bible—Old Testament: Copyright © American Bible Society 1976, New Testament: Copy- right © American Bible Society 1966, 1971, 1976. The maps on pages 41, 260, and 261 are from Russia: T: sarist and Com- munist by Anatole Mazour, © 1962 by Litton Educational Publishing, Inc. Reprinted by permission of D. Van Nostrand Reinhold Company. SOVIET EVANGELICALS SINCE WORLD WAR II Copyright © 1981 by Herald Press, Kitchener, Ont. N2G 4M5 Published simultaneously in the United States by Herald Press, Scottdale, Pa. 15683 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 80-84856 International Standard Book Numbers: 0-8361-1238-5 (hardcover) 0-8361-1289-3 (paperback) Printed in the United States of America Design: Alice B, Shetler 81 82 83 84 85 86 109876543821 Dedicated to those believers in the Soviet Union whose faith and spirit dominate this story but whose names are recorded in a more permanent book. j ae A eo iey 7 LG é 4S 4 Contents | Foreword — 9 Introduction: Who Are the Soviet Evangelicals? — 11 Acknowledgments — 21 List of Abbreviations — 23 1. Beginnings and Patterns: Persecution Has Become Hereditary — 27 2. The Leap Forward: Renewal and Church Growth, 1944-1957 — 55 3. A New Evangelical Union: The Tangled Unity Thread — 78 . Preaching and Peace: The Christian in a Communist Country — 105 5. Crisis: © The Khrushchev Campaign Against Religion — 131 6. Dissent Begins, 1960-1965: Samizdat, Excommunication, Prison — 157 7. The Union Defended, 1963-1969: Congresses — 200 8. Reunification Rejected, 1964-1974: The CCECB — 227 9. Life in the Provinces: Moscow Is Not Asia, Siberia, nor Even Kiev — 255 10. 11. iar ti 13. ——~ 14, 15. — 16. The Movement Toward Autonomy: Reform Baptists, Mennonites, Pentecostals — 273 Children and Youth: Competition Between Presbyter and Atheist — 297 . Soviet Evangelical Theology: Restitution of Apostolic Christianity — 337 The Foreign Connection: International and Ecumenical — 359 “ Anti-Soviet Interference’: Assessment of East European Mission Societies — 389 Beyond Survival: New Frontiers After 1974 — 416 The Evangelical in Soviet Society: « Some Conclusions — 447 Appendices 1. Statute of Unity, October 27, 1944 — 475 2. The August Ag