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ce, Reviewing Christianity and the World Order by Edward Norman in Religion in Communist Lands, VII, 3 (Autumn), 1979, p. 181. 3, Walter Kolarz, Religion in the Soviet Union (London: Macmillan & Co., 1961), p. 283. 4, John Lawrence, “Observations on Religion and Atheism in Soviet So- ciety,” RCL, I, 4-5 (July-Oct. 1973), p. 28. 5. William C. Fletcher, “Protestant Influences on the Outlook of the Soviet Citizen Today,” in Fletcher & Strover, Eds. Religion and the Search for New Ideals in the USSR (New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1967), p. 81. 6. Ibid., p. 64. 7. Wilhelm Kahle, Evangelische Christen in Russland und der Sowjetunion (Wuppertal: Oncken-Verlag, 1978) and Paul Steeves, “The Russian Baptist Union, 1917-1985; Evangelical Awakening in Russia,” unpublished PhD dissertation, University of Kansas, 1976. 8, Lectures delivered October 1979 in Bethel College, Kansas. 9A pod introduction to the evangelicals, who represent approximately 34 percent of the American public, is David F. Wells and joka D. Woodbridge, eds., 20 Soviet Evangelicals Since World War I! The Evangelicals (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Book House, Revised Edition, 1977). 10. C. Norman Kraus, “Evangelicalism: The Great Coalition,” in Kraus, ed., Evangelicalism and Anabaptism (Scottdale, Pa.: Herald Press, 1979), p. 43. 11. Vinson Synan, “Theological Boundaries: The Arminian Tradition,” in Wells & Woodbridge, p. 46. This article provides an excellent introduction to the Holiness and Pentecostal traditions. ; 12. Keston News Service, March 29, 1979. For background see Katharine Murray, “Soviet Seventh-Day Adventists,’ Religion in Communist Lands, V, 2 (Summer, 1977), pp. 88-93; Marite Sapiets, “V. A. Shelkov and the True and Free Seventh-Day Adventists of the USSR.” RCL VIII, 8, 1980, pp. 201-217. 13, For an excellent summary of various subgroupings of evangelicals, as well as a brief history and critique, see Richard Quebedeaux, The Young Evangelicals (New York: Harper & Row, 1974). See especially pp. 28-41 for a description of “Es- tablishment Evangelicalism” and ““New Evangelicalism.” Quebedeaux states that all evangelicals affirm three major theological principles: “1. The complete reli- ability and final authority of Scripture in matters of faith and practice; 2. The necessity of a personal faith in Jesus Christ as Savior from sin and consequent com- mitment to him as Lord; 3. The urgency of seeking actively the conversion of sin- ners to Christ.” P. 4, 14. Ronald J. Sider, “Evangelicalism and the Mennonite Tradition,” in C. Norman Kraus, ed., Evangelicalism and Anabaptism, pp. 149-168. Acknowledgments My first acknowledgment must be to the many people who lived through the story of this book personally and who graciously shared their intimate spiritual memories with me. Their words appear on many pages even though I was not at liberty to name the source