Obedience Ends Where Evil Begins: Church-State Relations in the Former Soviet Union from a baptistic Perspective
After some preliminary remarks about the ongoing legacy of the Soviet system, this article opens with a sketch of church-state relations from a biblical and theological perspective. The article concludes with some observations about how a ‘baptist vision’1 (McClendon) of a free church in a free stat...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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[2020]
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| In: |
Journal of European Baptist Studies
Year: 2020, Volume: 20, Issue: 1, Pages: 107-116 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Russia
/ Ukraine
/ Baptists
/ Church
/ State
/ Church politics (motif)
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| IxTheo Classification: | CG Christianity and Politics KBK Europe (East) KDG Free church SA Church law; state-church law |
| Further subjects: | B
Civil Society
B Ukraine B Church and state B Russia B baptistic |
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Volltext (kostenfrei) |
| Summary: | After some preliminary remarks about the ongoing legacy of the Soviet system, this article opens with a sketch of church-state relations from a biblical and theological perspective. The article concludes with some observations about how a ‘baptist vision’1 (McClendon) of a free church in a free state could provoke new thinking about the renewal of church and society in the post-Soviet era. My argument is that a baptistic2 vision of peace, justice and freedom in Christ, could help the church in Eastern Europe to drive a wooden stake through the heart of the Soviet system and help the people of the former USSR to emerge from the difficult travails of the post-Soviet transition. |
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| ISSN: | 1804-6444 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of European Baptist Studies
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