Among Russian Evangelicals: A New Source of Mennonites and Evangelicalism in Imperial Russia

[Among Russian Evangelicals: A New Source of Mennonites and Evangelicalism in Imperial Russia. Книга исследует вклад Меннонитов в развитие евангельских движений в Российской империи, фокусируясь на фигурах вроде Иоганна Виелера и архивных материалах Count Vassili Pashkov. Ан] Among Russian Evangelicals: A New Source of Mennonites and Evangelicalism in Imp ential Russia Translated, introduced and edited by Lawrence Klippenstein, Wilzlziyeg, Manitoba Protestant evangelicalism in Russia and the Soviet Union has always been, and still remains, a fascinating interplay of local, regional or national initiatives, and so-called foreign influences from the West or elsewhere "outside". Sometimes these particular facets of development have been easy to identify; sometimes they have not. Assessing th…

[Among Russian Evangelicals: A New Source of Mennonites and Evangelicalism in Imperial Russia. Книга исследует вклад Меннонитов в развитие евангельских движений в Российской империи, фокусируясь на фигурах вроде Иоганна Виелера и архивных материалах Count Vassili Pashkov. Ан] Johnili~ Wieler 45 immediately the Rohrbach community), the more diffused contributions of Bible colporteurs (usually, but not always, of western origin) and sometimes also to the preparatory roles of native quasi-Protestant religious communities like the Doulthobors and Molokans who had appeared on the scene a hundred or more years earlier.3 Some Mennonites also entered the picture. This fact though remains one of the less well-documented facets of most historical accounts. Apart from brief references to one or more…