Soviet Evangelicals Since World War II, Walter Sawatsky, 1981

s in general than is true of Kes- on College. Since 1978 the journal Glaube in der 2ten Welt has focused o special themes such as the issue on atheism cited above. ; (g) Other Institutions. Keston and G2W cooperated in 1976 with the 394 Soviet Evangelicals Since World War II Inter-Academical Institute for Missiological and pe rNiag aS duce a publication on Retigious vil (Utrecht, Netherlands) to pro ay ak iet Union for the World Council of Churche . Dr. his ee has written numerous articles and books in Dutch on Caan two of which have been translated into English." The Evange . “mane of Germany maintains a research department producing = i is : y responsible Ostkirchliche a aie ™ paar ee ae = iti i onsore' ions for the British Council of Chure es sp are of Trevor Beeson’s book Discretion and Valour in 1974. It remains the best overall survey on religion in Eastern Europe. Research Results a e close of this decade, Western public opinion Without question, at th n Eastern has become much more acres about sae aaah e pe i ion. The news serv aah ee oe in the secular and religious press. ie ep intpiation will appear a week or two later than the hot news aie by Western correspondents on the scene, but their. reporting Ha me tains more background data. Both institutions attempt to = oe Sen with more than one source, atheist and religious. In a ; the volume of Samizdat materials that has been published or summarized in fs ate = translation has become so extensive that the oe ae Aa ea i i ing. Soviet charges of falst ion has now received a wide hearing ( ee ae been proved to be untrue. Keston s reputation elas probably explains why Belov and Shilkin repeat their attacks on Bour s times throughout the book. eee The most significant influence of the research centers is less on ae i has been on the church agencies and East cu lied heavily on the research centers for their in- the nature of their response to the task they opinion in general than it ropean missions who have re formation. It has influenced have assigned themselves. The East European Missions . Mission work to Russia and other East saltaet eee oe st ignificantly influence - in the 19th century and had significan oe evangelicals.5 Swedish Lutherans and representatives i ieangeleal Alliance formed a missions committee in 1903 for wor c countries. In 1947 it was renamed the Slaviska Missionen and main- Slavi resent. It has sponsored evan- tains a major East European program at p Assessment of East European Mission Societies 395 gelization through its own missionaries and literature, as well as the support of Russian preachers and their education. One of its missionaries, Johannes Svensson, translated a Bible dictionary into Russian which was finally published in 1969. The Deutsche Orient Mission, founded in 1897 by Johannes Lepsius,