The Gates of Hell An Untold Story of Faith and Perseverance in the Early Soviet Union.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Heise, Matthew
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ashland : Faithlife Corporation, 2022.
Temas:
Christian life.
Evangelichesko-li͡uteranskai͡a t͡serkovʹ Rossii.
Vie chrétienne.
Christian life
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Chronology
  • Abbreviations
  • Prayer for Martyrs
  • Prologue
  • Chapter 1: A World in Flux: War, Revolution, and Reformation
  • Chapter 2: "The Church Is Separated from the State": The Bolsheviks Take Power
  • Chapter 3: "Any Proof of Brotherly Love": Finding a Way to Aid Russia
  • Chapter 4: A Powerful, Invisible Hand from the Dark: The Malevolent Might of the Cheka
  • Chapter 5: The "Religious NEP": The Departure of the ARA and the NLC's Struggle to Continue
  • Chapter 6: A Fir Tree with Two Peaks: The First All-Russian Lutheran Synodical Convention
  • Chapter 7: Servants in His Vineyard: A Bible School Is Born in the USSR
  • Chapter 8: "Hold Fast What You Have": The Status of the Lutheran Church in 1926
  • Chapter 9: "Unbelievable Elasticity": Managing Relations with Church and State in 1927
  • Chapter 10: "They Would Not See His Face Again": A Last Synod and Mission Festival
  • Chapter 11: "A Declaration of a Relentless Struggle": The Battle against Religion Is Joined
  • Chapter 12: "He ... Shall Think to Change the Times and the Law": Stalin's First Five-Year Plan Gets Underway
  • Chapter 13: "Faithful to Him to the Grave": Inspiring a New Generation of Believers
  • Chapter 14: A Somber Christmas: Arrests and Interrogations
  • Chapter 15: The Church Is Broken: The Koch Trial and the Decision in the Hansen-Muss Case
  • Chapter 16: Sheep among Wolves: The Servant of the Church as Enemy of the State
  • Chapter 17: "Stand and Eat, You Still Have a Long Way to Go": Words and Prayers of Encouragement
  • Chapter 18: "Stuck Deep in Snow and Ice": The Spiritual Life of the Church in Late 1931 and Early 1932
  • Chapter 19: A Sad and Muddled Affair: Conflicts in the Church as OGPU Pressure Intensifies
  • Chapter 20: "Harvest of Sorrow": Seminary Struggles, Famine, and the Recognition of the Soviet Union
  • Chapter 21: "A Martyr to the Cause": The Tragedy of the Meiers
  • Chapter 22: "A Small Crowd Armed with Courage": More Arrests and the Closing of the Seminary in 1934
  • Chapter 23: The Pulse of the Church Grows Weaker: The Kirov Terror and the Most Difficult Year since 1929
  • Chapter 24: They Could Do No Other: The Closing of Jesus Christ Lutheran Church
  • Chapter 25: "Fellow Citizens with the Saints": The Death of John Morehead and Departure of Arthur Malmgren
  • Chapter 26: "Thousands of Seeds ... Cast to the Wind": Shadows of the Great Terror
  • Chapter 27: The NKVD Big Lie: Linking the Russian Lutheran Church to Hitler
  • Chapter 28: "Blessed Are They that Suffer Persecution for Justice's Sake": The Great Terror and the Destruction of the Lutheran Pastorate in the USSR
  • Chapter 29: Heroes of Faith in the Gulag: Re-Arrests and Deaths in the Camps

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