Searle, Joshua T. (2020) Obedience Ends Where Evil Begins: Church-State Relations in the Former Soviet Union from a baptistic Perspective. Journal of European Baptist Studies, 20 (1). pp. 107-116. ISSN 1213-1520
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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’ (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 baptistic 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.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Baptist Theology, Public Theology, Political Theology, Church and State, Relations between Church and State, Theology and Public Life, History of Baptist and their Identity, Church history in Ukraine |
| Subjects: | A Church/mission history B Mission theology/theory > Public Theology G Christian traditions/Denominations > Baptist |
| Divisions: | Former Soviet Union |
| Depositing User: | Katharina Penner |
| Date Deposited: | 17 Jul 2024 09:57 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Jul 2024 09:57 |
| URI: | https://ceeamsprints.osims.org/id/eprint/2977 |
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