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ore a 57-67; cf. K. V. Somova, “‘Pesnia v zhizni khristianina,” BV, / , 29-34. ; ee For examples, BV, 1/79, pp. 36-40; 2/77, p. 69; 5/77, pp. 60-65, for recent ea i d distinction . A recent official spokesman, Archpriest G. Razumovsky, drew a di: haan juistios as the ata of the state and the truth of God as the goal of the charch (Herbert Waddams, “The Church in Soviet Russia,” Soviet Studies, aa ; PP. 14-16). To be fair it should be noted that committed Orthodox laymen li ‘ i sea Levitin or the historian Evgenii Barabanov have heavily criticized their c ps restricting itself “to an ‘intimate little corner’ of piety locked away with paar s from the life of the world ...” and hope for the recovery of social responsi lly. Alexander Solzhenitsyn, et al. From Under the Rubble (London: Collins & Harvi _ 187. ie ae ee Dudko, Our Hope (Crestwood, N.Y.: St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, 1977), p. 247. . Sas 28. Church and Religion in the USSR (Moscow: Novosti, , p. 43. 29. AR he p. 4. 3, BV. 3/70, files £ of the 1. BV, 3/70, pp. 48-54. I am indebted to Keston College files for a copy ja BY, 30, p presented to the 1969 congress. The latter was mailed to all churches, : 82. Ibid., p. 52. 33. Ibid., é 7 in ms. ). . P. 8in ms. - 38 “As Bieathing and Consciousness Return,” in From Under the Rubble, pp. 24-25. 86. P.4in ms. 87. Vins, Three Generations of Suffering, p.79. id., pp. 80-82. 5 . 33 ag 5, p. 7. The “‘weapons in his hands” phrase appeared frequently in ae oy The little-known history of evangelical pacifism has been cise at length in Steeves’s dissertation on the Baptists (pp. 557-592) and in Kahle’s ed a the Evangelical Christians (pp. 382-419). A recent Soviet study providing aap i archival documentation—though differing from the above pr goreeh me Kalinicheva, Sotsial’naia sushchnost’ baptizma (Leningrad, 1972), especially pp. 49- 85. "41. P. M. Putintsev, Politicheskaia rol’ i taktika sekt (Moscow, 1935), pp.96-97. : ted by Steeves, p. 564. ; re ai Klibanov, Relletoanoe sektantstvo: sovremennost’ (Moscow: Nauka, pie BV. 5-6/54, p. 31, which he recalled as He ecanbe work and now thanked J EC union in 1923 decided in favor of mi itary service. on rc hee “appeared to be the preferred negotiating partner for the ao thorities, Andreev apparently underwent no imprisonment and after the war dns as plenipotentiary for the Ukraine and became a vice-president of the union in the 1954 ake up von Ep, 899). " ea 571. The BWA response reflected the traditional view indicat- Preaching and Peace ; 129 ing that pacifism was considered a secondary issue. A statement on Baptist distinc- tives approved by six North American Baptist conventions in 1967 includes such themes as democracy, liberty, and mission but the word “peace” does ‘not appear once. (See Watchman Examiner, January 26, 1956, pp. 38-40.) 48. Steeves, p. 478. 49. Ibid., pp. 488-89. Steeves develops a distinction between “Old” and “New”’ Bapti