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By the summer of 1990 Soviet Protestant church leaders were heard to say that they often felt literally torn apart by persons coming to them from all sides to ask questions about faith. A villager, for example, would ask the evangelicals in a nearby city to visit his village, bring along a group of singers and a speaker. Vice-President Alexei Bychkov and editor Vitali Kulikov of the Baptist Union found themselves invited to give ten minute sermons on Moscow radio on a monthly basis. When in June 1990 the Baptist Union called a national consultation of evangelists, pastors from all over the Soviet Union reported invitations they were receiving to speak to university professors, or to their classes, to lecture on Christianity at nearby institutions of higher learning. When many of them expressed their insecurity at addressing the educated of society, Nikolai Kolesnikov responded by reminding them of the intent of those invitations. Those inquirers knew that these poorly trained pastors or simple church members claimed to have a personal relationship to Jesus Christ, and that was what they wanted to hear about, not a scholarly dissertation on the nature of transcendance or proofs for

Author

Ramet, Sabrina Petra

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published

1992

Language

EN